Heidi von beltz biography of rory
Born in Wehbach an Der Sieg and raised in Kassel, Germany....
A Disabled Woman's Giant Steps
----------------------------------------------------------------- "My Soul Purpose: Living, Learning, and Healing" by Heidi von Beltz, with Peter Copeland Random House, $24 -----------------------------------------------------------------
Heidi von Beltz makes a lousy quadriplegic.
Heidi Von Beltz was involved in a stunt that went horribly wrong and left her a quadriplegic.
The former actress and stuntwoman refuses to sit still - or stay in a wheelchair.
Almost immediately after von Beltz broke her neck during a stunt on the set of Burt Reynolds' 1981 movie, "Cannonball Run," she was plotting to walk again.
This was in spite of doctors, therapists and psychiatrists declaring she must learn to love her wheelchair.
With customary bite, von Beltz writes, "The really sick thing about that suggestion was that they meant it."
"My Soul Purpose: Living, Learning and Healing," written with journalist Peter Copeland, is von Beltz's testament to the power of the human spirit to heal the body.
Sometimes preaching "heal thyself" creatively, sometim