Emily Stevenson was born on the 21st of july in 1990, in Hawai. Her parents had four children, two boys and two girls.
When she was fourteen, she decided to become a surfer. She grew up and she graduated from High School in 2008. She lived in the countryside, but she decided to move near the beach with her family too. She moved to begin her career as a surfer with her father an one brother.
One of her sisters moved to the United States to work, and the other got married and bought a house in California.
On 14th of July, she was surfing with her father and one brother when a sahrk bit her arm and it pulled off her arm. Her father, took her to the hospital and she was there for two weeks.
In 2014 her parents got divorced, and her father got married to Daisy.
In 2016, her brother died in accident, but no one could stop her, she won the world's surffing cup.
Bethany Hamilton-Dirks (born February 8, 1990) is an American professional surfer who survived a 2003 shark attack in which her left arm was bitten. Hamilton was home-schooled from 6th grade and went back to school for high school. She is the youngest of three siblings.
On October 31, 2003, Hamilton, aged 13 at the time, went for a morning surf along Tunnels Beach, Kauai, with her best friend Alana Blanchard, Alana's father, Holt, and brother Byron. Around 7:30 a.m., with numerous turtles in the area, she was lying on her surfboard with her left arm in the water, when a 4.3 metres tiger shark attacked her, severing her left arm just below the shoulder.
Despite the trauma of the incident, Hamilton was determined to return to surfing and one month after the attack, she returned to her board. After teaching herself to surf with one arm, on January 10, 2004, she entered a major competition. She wrote about her experience in the 2004 autobiography Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board. In April 2011, the feature film Soul Surfer was released. The shark-bitten surfboard that Hamilton was riding during the attack, as well as the bathing suit she was wearing at the time, are on display at the California Surf Museum in Oceanside, California.
In early 2012, Hamilton met Adam Dirks. They became engaged in April 2013. The couple were married on August 18, 2013. The couple have a son who was born in 2015. In March of 2018, they announced their second child was born.

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