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“There’s so much to live for...”
It may seem hard to believe, but as a child, Felix Fox almost willed himself to disappear into the background.
“I was an introvert, and I still am in many ways—almost an ambivert. When I was a kid, I had a lot less social interaction. I was obsessed with Legos and being by myself, going up to my room while all my siblings were outside playing. I would be the ugly duckling upstairs just not being active. I was the kid that liked to draw. I was a mama’s boy and I had a sweet tooth, so I was kind of like the nerd out of the family of jocks,” he recalls. “They were always kind of like the stars. I just wanted to build with my Bionicles upstairs in my room, be quiet and read.”
And yet here he is, the breakout star of 2021 in an industry built on naked showmanship. The story of how that switch flipped is one laced with narrowly averted tragedy: During his senior year of high school in 2016, Fox was in a serious car accident—one that would eventually reshape his outlook on life.
“I was confined to a hospital bed for months at a time. I had to re-learn how to walk, talk and write,” he says. “My motor skills were basically starting from ground zero.”
And remarkably, Fox wouldn’t change a thing.
“I started to develop FOMO...I was sitting there like, ‘What can I do?’ So I started doing little crunch workouts and pushups in my hospital room whenever I could,” he says. “There’s so much to live for. I think my mindset was, if I was so close to biting it, how terrible would that have been if I had not explored the wonders of physical fitness and all that? So I was like, ‘Let’s go balls to walls now and try to max it out.’
“I kind of came out of that whole endeavor with a skip in my step. I learned from this— learned how to forgive the dark side of humanity, because they never caught the guy that ran into me. So it taught me a lot of things. I was lucky to come out of that with a smile on my face.”
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