Addison Bethea, now 18, from Perry, Florida, had her leg viscously ripped off by the animal last year. Now, the teen is gearing up to become a parent with her longtime partner, Ashton Strickland.
Addison Bethea was a high school cheerleader when she was mauled by 9ft bull shark. Now 18, she has shared her remarkable story - and hailed her hero brother Rhett, who saved her life.
Last June, just weeks before she was set to begin her senior year of high school, Addison Bethea was scalloping off the coast of northwest Florida when she was bitten by a shark. Bethea happened to be scalloping alongside her brother Rhett Willingham, a firefighter and emergency medical technician, who raced to help her. Together, the siblings fought off the 9-foot shark and got Bethea back into a boat and to land, where she was airlifted to a hospital in Tallahassee, about 80 miles northwest of Keaton Beach, where the attack occurred.