Brooke Shields: 'Health crisis has been the biggest blessing in disguise'

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Brooke Shields is determined to turn her health nightmare into a teaching moment for her children after a tumble off a balance board left her fearing death.

The Blue Lagoon star has been learning to walk again after breaking her femur in a New York gym in late January, an injury which required her to undergo two emergency surgeries, as well as overcoming a staph infection in her arm.

At the time, Shields had been on a health kick as she neared the end of a 14-day workout and clean eating plan, and although she's still in recovery, Shields considers the personal crisis a "blessing" in disguise. "I think it's almost been the biggest blessing to date, because I realised what a fighter I am," she told Good Morning America.