A Brazilian model who lost her leg after she was hit by a drunk driver refuses to let her disability get in the way of her modelling career.
Paola Antonini France Costa, 21, from Belo Horizonte, continues to wow on the catwalk sporting a prosthetic leg and has earned more than 600,000 followers on Instagram with her stunning shots that see her swimming, laughing and skateboarding despite her disability.
The model lost her leg in a car accident just after Christmas in 2014 as she packed her car to head off to the coast for New Year's Eve.
The Brazilian model has not allowed her disability to get in the way of doing the things she loves, including dancing and skateboarding
Paola's left leg was crushed and despite four attempts to save her limb, it had to be amputated below the knee.
Recalling the incident in an interview with Brazilian news site Veja BH shortly after it happened, she said: 'I'd never felt such intense pain in my life
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