The Real Lara Croft

Have you ever dreamed of meeting the real Lara Croft? If yes, she does exist and she is a surgeon.

Unbelievably intelligent, amazingly beautiful, extremely strong willed and immensely positive. She is one of these women I have met in my life that are real Life Models. No one can complain about their lives after hearing what she went through and what she achieved because she loves life so much.

Born in Paris, she has been educated by fantastic parents both from completely different cultures, father is Japanese and mother is French. She is their only child and the pride of her father and mother. After studies in Political Science in Paris, she became a banker, first in Paris then in Geneva.

When I met her in February 1998, she just had her 30th surgery and was wearing a neck brace. She actually survived a parachute crash in 1997! Her parachute never opened and she fell on the concrete at 220kmh/hour speed. Thanks to falling on her chin, she preserved her brain but everything else exploded and cracked in the shock.

Thanks to the medical team flying to the scene in the next few minutes and the Reconstructive Surgical team in Geneva Hospital, she survived. After a few weeks in a coma and more than 35 surgeries over a 2 years period, she was back on her feet, all in titanium and still as beautiful as before!

What the accident did to her was just unbelievable: she decided to become a surgeon herself and started her medical school at almost 30, became the best medical student in Switzerland and is now working with part of the team that reconstructed her.

Having been in the ER, having suffered hell, having survived when everyone was believing she wouldn't make it - she knows exactly how her patients feel and she connects to them in a very different way than any other doctor!

Lucky patients to have such an extraordinary doctor walking into their rooms on high heels with a huge smile on her face!