During an interview with GQ magazine, the American actor of Mexican origin Juan Pablo Medina told how his life changed after one of his limbs was amputated.
The 44-year-old artist had to be admitted to a hospital in an emergency in July 2021 after suffering a silent heart attack that later forced the amputation of his right leg. “My first reaction was like anger,” confessed Medina.
Throughout the interview, the actor narrates what he lived from the moment he felt bad that July 15, what it was like to struggle with the diagnosis, what your life is like now, and even what your aspirations and future plans are. “I decided to live, I was more afraid of not waking up than of waking up without a leg. I want to enjoy what I did win, which was living, which matters more than what I lost,” the man said.
Juan Pablo Medina appears in a magazine with a prosthesis
The actor of ‘The house of flowers’ appears very smiling modeling on the cover of the April issue his prosthesis in different scenarios and that he also presumed that it is “the best prosthesis there is, it is mechatronics”.
In the publication, Juan Pablo highlighted the support he received from his family, his girlfriend, the actress Paulina Dávila, who was in charge of making him understand that his health came first, as well as external people who had gone through the same experience and with whom he had opportunity to coexist.
“I’m going to have a normal life and that’s it,” he said. “Something that has helped me a lot is how I want to see myself, what I want to do, I am very excited to work, but I want to be at the moment when my body and my head tell me I am ready for this. I want to master prosthetics and it takes time and a lot of effort and work for after I get to be able to interpret, I am very grateful, “he concluded.