Turia Pitt and Michael Hoskin’s love story will remain etched in your hearts forever!
The inspirational brunette,Turia Pitt was born in Tahiti and moved to Australia with her family when she was three years old. She met her now fiancé at school. Admiring him from afar, the pair became a couple in 2009 and he has been her rock ever since. Before her life-changing accident in 2011, Turia had landed her dream job at Rio Tinto and had started a new life with Michael. Both were incredibly fit and adored the outdoors, but their lives were turned upside-down in September 2011.
Turia suffered burns to 65 per cent of her body, lost her fingers and thumb on her right hand and spent five months in hospital after she was trapped by a grassfire in a 100 kilometre ultra-marathon in the Kimberley. A former police officer, Michael gave up his job to care for her. Their love story is an integral to her inspiring story of survival. “When Turia was in intensive care four years ago, I bought her a diamond ring”
Chatting to the Telegraph back in 2012, Michael gushed about his love. “She doesn’t want people to feel sorry for her. She just wants to get on with her life,” He explained. “She’s beautiful, you know, she’s amazing. She’s got crazy energy. She loves the outdoors, she loves the ocean like I do and we were constantly active together,” he added.
Turia was quick to share her happiness with the world, taking to Facebook: “Stoked to have this beautiful man in my life! You bring out the best in me and I can’t wait for the rest of our lives together.” In fact, Turia often cites Michael’s love as the key to her survival, admitting he makes her feel like “the luckiest girl in the world.” She’s a woman with an unstoppable spirit and it is easy to see why Michael is so in-love with Turia.
The remarkable woman garnered the courage to use her experience as a positive one and has gone on to achieve greatness since her tragedy, all with Michael right by her side. “We all have that inner strength, but rarely do we get the chance to see how incredible we truly are,” she said in a separate interview. “I’ve had to claw my way back into life — learn to walk, to talk. All the things I had taken for granted before became seemingly impossible tasks.”
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