Irish actress and TikTok star Ruth Codd announced she has had her second leg amputated below the knee.
She offered an update on her health this week, explaining in a post called "No legs who dis?" that she was back at her parents' home, making TikTok content, but confined to the first floor because she can no longer make it up the stairs.
In a separate video posted before the operation, she explained to a tattoo artist that she had to have the surgery because she damaged her left leg by overcompensating for the injury to her right, using crutches for eight years.
She lost her first leg because of complications stemming from a soccer injury when she was 15.
"I was always up on my tippy toes, so the joints in my feet were destroyed," Codd said, adding her toes had initially been amputated before surgeons eventually removed her second foot and calf."My quality of life... it's never going to get any better from this point. They can only kind of stop it from getting worse. The amount of health problems and stuff I've had the last year, I haven't let it stop me from doing anything, but I feel like it has hindered me and made my ability to do my job more difficult," she added. "I have been through this once before, so I think, with two prosthetics, I'll be pretty unstoppable."
