Meet the woman dubbed 'Bionic Barbie'

A woman who dismissed her deadly liver failure as tiredness due to turning 30, has now been dubbed ‘the Bionic Barbie’ after making a miraculous recovery.

Christina Ferrara, from Tampa, Florida, USA, was told by doctors that she would ‘die this weekend’ after they discovered her liver was shutting down.

The 31-year-old believed her symptoms were due to ‘getting older’ after hitting her 30th milestone last year.

She experienced bleeding gums which she put down to her toothbrush and thought her darker urine was from needing to drink more water. She claims she eventually went ‘yellow from head-to-toe’.

“I thought it was just a cruel welcoming to my 30s,” Christina, an assistant manager said.

“I thought the tiredness was due to my age and working over 40 hours a week – trying to maintain my work and social life.

“But I was very jaundiced and suffering high enzyme levels, when my doctor looked me over he told me I had to be admitted into hospital and that I was going to die before the end of the weekend.”

She drastically deteriorated and was left unable to recall what year it was or the name of the current US President.

Following the prognosis, Christina was rushed to hospital and put into a medically induced coma after her brain began to shut down.

“The toxins in my body were so high from my liver leaking,” she said.

Doctors declared her the ‘sickest woman in America’ – with her being bumped to number one on the US liver transplant list and then the top worldwide.

“There were three livers that I couldn’t accept – one was too big, one too sick and the other too old – but on the fourth day I had a perfect liver presented to me,” she said.

“It was literally a miracle, as soon as I put it in it was like the batteries were back on.”

Fortunately, she sprung back into action and she recovered so quickly she’s since been dubbed ‘the Bionic Barbie’.

Now the 31-year-old, who has made a near-full recovery, urges others to register on the organ donor list.

“If my donor did not choose to donate their organs I would not be here right now.

“I needed a specific liver, the person who registered was my guardian angel.”

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