'Men don't understand how independent I am': Disabled Mormon with no legs is looking for love
A Mormon woman who wasn’t expected to reach her first birthday is looking for love - but wants men to know they won't have to look after her.
Melinda Bird was born with sacral agenesis, a rare condition that caused her spine to stop growing at the bottom of her ribcage, leaving the lower part of her body compressed.
Doctors predicted she would never sit up or talk, but now 40-year-old Melinda counts quad biking, boating, surfing and shooting among her hobbies.
And recently she embarked on her most daunting venture yet when she joined the dating scene.
The government admin worker, from Utah, USA, has never been kissed - and hadn’t been on a date in twenty years.
But now she is taking the Mormon-dating scene by storm in her quest to find love.
