COVER FEATURE
ALLI EXPRESS
ALLI SIMPSON For someone so young Alli Simpson has packed a lot into her life. The first thing you notice about Alli Simpson is her eyes. As blue and clear as a Gold Coast spring day and coupled with newly dark hair, her natural colour, it is a startling combination. Into her young life she has packed a variety of achievements and career choices. Actress, singer, participant in a documentary on homelessness, reality TV contestant, radio show host and children’s book author. It is an astonishing list but something that she accepts in a matter of fact way as something she did when given the opportunity.
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Impressive as they all are, possibly the most remarkable achievement is her latest – recovering from a freak accident where she dived into shallow water that came within two millimetres of placing Alli in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. “I’ve only just come out the neck brace and the tests show that it has healed very well. I still have to be careful, it’s all stable now but it will be another five months. I have been so lucky. All I had was a stiff neck and I carried the injury around for three months without realising how serious it was. There were two broken vertebrates but it wasn’t that painful except for some tingling. I was still exercising, doing Pilates and boxing even standing on my head once. So lucky. It has given me a new appreciation of life. The radiologist who saw my X-rays could not believe that I had been living a normal life for those three months.”
