Christopher Reeve’s lookalike son Will steps out in NYC with girlfriend
nypost.comdied in 2004 at the age of 52.The “Somewhere in Time” star was paralyzed from the neck down in 1995 after being thrown from a horse during an equestrian competition.His mother, Dana Reeve, passed away from lung cancer just two years after Reeve’s death.Will is currently a board member on the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, an organization dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by advancing research.He got candid with People in 2016 about growing up with his famous dad, despite the latter’s disability. “[My parents] were the people who told me to turn off the TV, to eat my broccoli, to go to bed,” he said.Will went on: “I understand that not every child experiences going to the grocery store and seeing their dad on the magazine at the checkout aisle, but…it was a totally normal childhood.”The broadcaster added: “The fact that he was paralyzed did present its own set of challenges because we couldn’t be spontaneous.”“My parents did such a good job of staying true to their values that I never felt deprived of a normal childhood, even though my experiences, at face value, were inherently different from other children my age,” he said..
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