The singer who is celebrating difference

Pop star owns – and embraces – her disability.

Viktoria Modesta thinks of disability differently from other people. The British-Latvian pop star has a partly prosthetic (artificial) left leg. Her dream is to live in a world where disabled people aren’t seen as “different”, but where having a prosthetic leg is “as accepted as wearing glasses”. At age 20, Viktoria had the lower part of her left leg amputated (removed) by doctors. Her leg had been damaged at birth and throughout her life Modesta had lots of operations. Eventually, she decided it was time to live without her leg. Modesta’s operation changed her life. She became famous after she was chosen to perform at the closing ceremony of the London Paralympic Games in 2012. Since then, the singer has explored what it means to be disabled and she loves…

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