Natalya Discusses Her Struggles With Legal Blindness While Wrestling For WWE

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WWE star Natalya talked candidly about her battles with legal blindness while competing for the company in an interview with SI.com.

โ€œI donโ€™t think even really anybody in WWE knew about it because I kept it pretty secretive. I was born with astigmatismโ€ฆ I was legally blind in my left eye.โ€

โ€œThey didnโ€™t have the technology to fix it. (I) Didnโ€™t qualify for LASIK because of how my eye was shaped. At that time, the procedure that they had for (a) lens implant, because of the shape of my eye, I didnโ€™t qualify for it. I was like screw it. Iโ€™m not going to wear the contact lens. Iโ€™m literally just going to take it out and just let my right eye do all the work.โ€

โ€œI had a little time off this summer in between my contract re-signing. And I was like, if I had this time off, Iโ€™m going to ask WWE if I can get this fixed because I went and found an eye doctor. Newsom Eye in Tampa. They had the technology that they didnโ€™t have before. They even strengthened my right eye. I had surgery in my right eye to get (it) even stronger so that my right eye (and) my left eye are totally in sync with each other.โ€