Influencer Mariana Vasiuc broke her spine while attempting the Nicki Minaj stiletto challenge, just eight weeks after giving birth. pic.twitter.com/mSLrkoLdFJ
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8 weeks after giving birth, the Russian mum influencer tried the Nicki Minaj stiletto challenge trending on TikTok, failing spectacularly, breaking her back.
In a video on Instagram, seen more than 500,000 times and reposted many times on TikTok, Vasiuc can be seen trying to keep her balance on high heels, cross-legged on a tub of baby formula stacked on top of an overturned saucepan on a countertop.
She said she sustained a compression flexion fracture: that is when a vertebra is compressed or squashed to a forward-bending force.
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