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Brooke Shields details broken femur accident, learning to walk again: 'I'm a fighter'

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Brooke Shields has opened up about her traumatic gym accident in late January which caused her to break her right femur and undergo multiple surgeries.

The 55-year-old former Calvin Klein model recalled how she flew off a balance board in a New York City gym and landed in such a way that it shattered her thigh bone.

Shields confessed she thought she was paralyzed because she couldn't feel her toes at the time. The actress said she wasn't sure she'd ever walk again and needed her first surgery to insert two metal rods "one from the top of my hip down, and another across into the hip socket," she told People magazine.

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