Tiphany Adams (born March 5, 1983) is an American reality television personality, actress, model and speaker.
Accident
In 2000, at the age of 17 she was a passenger in a car struck head on by an
intoxicated driver traveling over 130 miles per hour. All were believed to be dead but then first responders heard sounds coming from Adams. They used the
jaws of life
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to reach her and airlift her to the hospital. The others involved in the accident, the drunk driver as well as Adams' two friends, were killed. Adams was diagnosed as a
paraplegic with a T10 fracture and L2 movement.
Early life
Adams was raised in the country near
Lodi, California
Lodi ( ) is a city located in San Joaquin County, California, in the center portion of California's Central Valley. The population was 62,134 at the 2010 census. The estimated population is approximately 67,586 according to 2019 census data. L ...
. As a young girl, she participated in
4-H
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. She attended five different schools and was suspended and almost expelled more than once. She knew she was a teenager with major issues who found escape during high school in her theater classes and choir. After the car accident, she wasn't certain if she could pursue acting or modeling in a wheelchair.
Following high school Tiphany studied child development and psychology at
San Joaquin Delta College
San Joaquin Delta College (Delta College) is a public community college in Stockton, California. It was founded in 1935 as Stockton Junior College. The college serves a district area that includes all of San Joaquin County and parts of Alameda, ...
. She has experience teaching in the classroom preschool through sixth grade. Additionally, she is a fitness trainer and has worked as a
circuit trainer in Northern California. She relocated to the
Los Angeles
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and has since pursued becoming a model and actor.
''Push Girls''
In 2012,
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announced the creation of the series ''
Push Girls
''Push Girls'' is an American reality television series on the SundanceTV. A sneak peek episode, and original premiere date, aired on April 17, 2012, with the official debut on June 4, 2012. ''Push Girls'' chronicles the lives of four women— An ...
'', a reality television series about living with paralysis in Hollywood produced by Gay Rosenthal, which stars Adams among "four dynamic, outspoken and beautiful women" in the Los Angeles area.
Other projects
In addition to her work on ''Push Girls'', Tiphany speaks and advocates publicly on the topics of drunk and distracted driving, LGBT issues, nutrition, wellness and fitness. She is an ambassador for Wish Upon a Teen, an organization that provides resources and opportunities to teenagers dealing with
autism or recovering from injury or chronic illness.
A short documentary about Tiphany simply titled ''Tiphany'' screened at The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival in 2017.
References
External links
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Wish Upon a Teen
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Living people
American actors with disabilities
Participants in American reality television series
People with paraplegia
1983 births
People from Lodi, California