“I was amazed that I was still alive,” Charla Nash said about the gruesome 2009 attack Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and Reader's ...

The Connecticut woman who underwent a face transplant five years ago after being disfigured by a chimpanzee attack in February 2009 said she's come a long way in her recovery and hopes to one day ride ...

Woman Whose Face Was Ripped Off By Chimp 16 Years Ago Shares Update originally appeared on Parade. Charla Nash is opening up about her life 16 years after surviving a horrific chimpanzee attack that ...

A woman who was mauled by a chimpanzee has shared a health update after undergoing a life-changing face transplant. Charla Nash was attacked in 2009 by her friend Sandra Herold’s pet chimpanzee, ...

STAMFORD, Conn. - Her hands looked like they were wrecked by a machine. Eyes wounded, hair yanked out. Face and scalp injuries so extensive, all the blood obscured whatever parts were left. Two of the ...

STAMFORD, Conn. — Her hands looked like they were wrecked by a machine. Eyes wounded, hair yanked out. Face and scalp injuries so extensive, all the blood obscured whatever parts were left. Two of the ...

Thanks to the surgery, Nash says, "life's getting better" A woman who made headlines 16 years ago when her friend’s pet chimpanzee “ripped her face off” has shared what she looks like after her ...

Charla Nash, whose friend's pet chimp infamously "ripped her face off" in 2009, says she's being given a second shot at life with a groundbreaking face transplant The mom — who also lost her hands in ...