3. Rachel Bilson
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Rachel Bilson said she liked to live on the edge until an almost fatal car crash put her in a coma for three days. She was just 14 years old when driving with friends down the Pacific Coast Highway in California. The head on collision was so horrific that Bilson had to be cut from the car. After waking up from her coma three days after the accident Bilson didn’t remember the crash, and she hopes that it can remain that way. When The O.C. first hit television screens Bilson was 21 years old, which she cites as a reason that she was able to deal with such fast fame. Her costar Mischa Barton was not so lucky and the 16 year old fell fast into partying before her career came to a complete stop. Bilson still works on popular TV shows but does admit that she’s always wanted to be a rapper.
2. Gloria Estefan
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By 1990 Gloria Estefan was at the height of her career dancing and singing her way into the hearts across the world. That year while Gloria and the Miami Sound Machine were traveling through snow covered Pocono Mountains a truck slid and hit the bus right in the back bumper. Esteban, five members of the band, and the bus driver were taken to the hospital to be treated for various injuries. Estefan’s husband and son both suffered injuries, and Gloria herself suffered a spinal cord injury. Her rehabilitation from this injury was tedious and took quite a long time. When the bus was hit Gloria knew her back was broken because of the searing pain in her spine and her husband had literally been knocked right out of his shoes. The accident didn’t only rob us of more Gloria Estefan, it made it hard for Gloria and her husband Emilio to conceive as her doctors were worried that her back couldn’t handle the weight of pregnancy.
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