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\u201cI feel like the accident was the best thing that ever could have happened to me even though it was one of the worst that had happened,\u201d she says from her parent\u2019s Torquay home where she is currently residing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was kind of floating through life, I was doing a bachelor of business management but it really wasn\u2019t my passion.<\/p>\n
\u201cI realised that happiness and getting joy out of what you were doing was probably the most important thing because you never know when that can be taken away from you.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know people say it takes an accident or a confronting situation to make you realise that and I was just very fortunate that it happened to me so young.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew I didn\u2019t want to be stuck inside ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ky turned to rock climbing during her recovery and became a hiking guide.<\/p>\n
One day a young participant commented that she should be a stuntwoman and the idea stuck.<\/p>\n
She visited her sister in Canada where many movies were being made at the time and then spent three years working hard on the stunt performance craft.<\/p>\n
She never looked back \u2013 as her impressive resume attests.<\/p>\n Ky performed as a stunt double for the likes of Sharon Stone, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Garner and Toni Collette and worked alongside Chris Hemsworth, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Anthony Hopkins and Hugh Jackman.<\/p>\n Her work can be seen in blockbuster films such as Thor, Pirates of Caribbean, X-Men, The Avengers and Elektra.<\/p>\n In 2012 she won the World Taurus Stunt Award for The Best Female Stunt Performer for her work doubling the role of Lady Sif on Thor.<\/p>\n \u201cTo win it was just bigger than I could have dreamed of,\u201d Ky says.<\/p>\n \u201cEspecially at a time when women\u2019s stunt sequences were only just beginning to be comparable to men\u2019s sequences.<\/p>\n \u201cI got to do some of the biggest wire stunts in that movie other than Thor himself so it was such an amazing opportunity to be a character that was so strong and fought alongside the male characters.\u201d<\/p>\n Ky also stepped out from behind the scenes to produce and document a 100-mile hike across the Sierra Nevada where she survived in the wilds carrying only a pocket knife.<\/p>\n It led to other opportunities such as motivational speaking, publishing books including Girls Guide to Survival and being part of Discovery Channel\u2019s hugely popular Naked and Afraid series where she endured brutal physical and mental challenges including spending 21 days in the Amazon on her own with only a knife.<\/p>\n \u201cThat one changed me more than anything in my life \u2013 I walked out of the Amazon after 21 days alone knowing that nothing could phase me again,\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n \u201cNaked and Afraid is just an incredible show about how amazing the human mind can be to overcome what\u2019s going on in a very extreme environment.\u201d<\/p>\n Ky\u2019s latest challenge has been lockdown and while she admits to being a little like \u201ca caged animal\u201d it has provided the ideal conditions to bunker down on the Surf Coast for a while and work on her upcoming book.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, her most recent TV series, Outback Lockdown, is performing well on Netflix in the UK and other projects are on the horizon depending on pandemic restrictions.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/surfcoasttimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-22-at-11.39.55-am-229x300.png\")
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