Jessica Cox is one of those women who create trends and who are all an example of overcoming, and inner strength. She has no arms, that is something that you have already seen in the images, however, we are sure that in the image that heads this article there are two aspects that have called you even more attention.
Her smile, and the plane behind her. Jessica is a pilot and a happy woman. She does not need arms to fly … And that is something that we can not all say. Would you like to know how do you do it?
Jessica Cox, a woman who touches the sky with her feet
In effect, her feet are her hands and her tool to move on the road and guide the controls of the plans in which the skies of the whole world fly over. Now … what is your story? What has made this attractive 32-year-old woman without arms?
No, it was not something traumatic. Jessica was born that way. It was a strange genetic disease that determined that she was born in this way, without arms but with a lot of strength and determination.
Today she lives in Tucson, Arizona, and if it was not enough to have obtained her flight license and driver’s license, this woman also has her driver’s license, her certificate as a diver and … It’s a black belt!
We could say that this was not a physical limitation but was rather an aspect on which to fight every day to be equal to the rest, or even more, to demonstrate “to the rest of the world” that a physical handicap does not make us disabled to enjoy and take out the maximum match of life.
With this spirit you will not be surprised that today Jessica earns her living giving motivational speeches and helping people who, like her, have some physical limitation that puts certain barriers in their day to day life.
When you go to these meetings, or to the centers where there are students with disabilities, you usually talk about what your life was like.
Despite the teasing of the first day when she entered her first Taekwondo class, and the doubts of her companions to see a girl without arms, she did not hesitate to turn to deaf ear and give strength and flexibility to her legs.
The reason? She had it very clear that those feet should become her hands, so she made mockery her anger, and the skepticism of others her motivator to show that they were wrong. That she was capable of everything.
So it was. At 14 she got her black belt. Now … did her path end here? Was it the moment when she could make her feet her hands, and her ability her freedom? Absolutely. She still had to strengthen her mind and learn strategies for those days when discouragement knocked at her door. At the moment she graduated in Psychology.
She is a good speaker and a person who is above all … loves to fly. Nobody is as free as there is there, in the solitude of the cabin watching the immensity of that world accustomed to put outside barriers.
In the sky and with her plane, Jessica does not need hands, because she has wings, because her feet are her arms and because she is worth herself.
Next challenge in the life of Jessica Cox? The parachuting.
