女子天生無雙臂 用腳活出不一樣的人生

Jessica Cox is not your average pilot。

傑西卡·考克斯可不是一般的飛行員。

The 32-year-old, who was born with a rare non-genetic birth defect that left her without arms, has never let her disability hold her back. Growing up, Cox did it all, from swim lessons to girl scouts, modeling, tap dancing and Taekwondo — at the age of 14, she'd already earned a black belt。

傑西卡今年32歲，她在一出生時就患有罕見的非遺傳性疾病，導致其失去了雙臂，但身體的殘疾並沒有擊退她。從小到大，她幾乎什麼都做過，學了游泳，參加了女童子軍，當模特，跳踢踏舞，還學了跆拳道，14歲就已是黑帶。

"I can't believe how much I did growing up. Every single day after school there was something going on. I don't know how my parents did it," Cox told TODAY. "I was expected to learn to do things like everybody else in my own way, which worked out just fine."

“這一路成長過來，我自己都無法相信自己做了那麼多的事。每天放學後都會有事情發生。我不知道我的父母是怎樣做到的，”考克斯告訴《今日》說，“我的父母希望我能跟其他人一樣學會做一些事情，按我的方式來，這一切都挺順利的。”

She even learned how to fly a plane with her feet。

她甚至學會了如何用腳開飛機。

Becoming a pilot wasn't always a dream for Cox, but after going up in a single engine airplane with a fighter pilot several years ago, she was inspired to overcome her initial fears。

考克斯並沒有想過要成爲一名飛行員。但幾年前，與一名戰鬥飛行員駕駛單引擎飛機升空後，她受到鼓勵克服自己原先的恐懼。

"Being up in the air put me on edge, but that quickly went away," she said. "It still keeps me on edge, which I like."

“在空中的時候我很緊張，但很快這種情緒就消失了，”她說道，“現在(在空中飛行)我依然會緊張，但我喜歡這種感覺。”

In 2008, after extensive training, she earned her Light Sport Pilot Certificate, and in 2011 she nabbed the Guinness World Record for the "First Armless Person in the World Ever to Have Obtained a Pilot's License."

2008年，經過高強度訓練後，考克斯獲得了輕型運動飛行員駕駛資格證。2011年，她擁有了一項吉尼斯世界紀錄，即“世界上第一位無臂且獲得飛行員駕駛資格證的人”。

Cox has now traveled to 20 countries on six continents to share her inspirational story. She believes anyone can excel, regardless of disability, with encouragement and support。

到目前爲止，考克斯已穿越6大洲去過20個國家，分享她的勵志故事。她相信，任何人，即使身有殘疾，在得到鼓勵和支持下都能活出精彩人生。