Background story
“I lived a life of stares.”
«Ho vissuto una vita di sguardi» — Alice, to Ticinonline
For most of her life Alice ran into the same look: people who couldn’t see her, only what was missing. Today she answers it on her own terms — in heels, on the padel court and on camera, always with a lot of irony.
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Age 2 · Milan
A leg nobody could explain
Her left leg was cold to the touch, slightly smaller, and she couldn’t put weight on it. By the time she reached Milan’s Buzzi children’s hospital, circulation had all but stopped. Bypass surgery and hyperbaric therapy couldn’t save it, and an infection meant the amputation had to go above the knee.
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School years
Building a wall
Tired of the stares, she decided to keep it to herself. She moved so naturally that nobody at school ever knew. “It wasn’t the moment yet” — she needed the tools, and someone to tell her she was fine just as she was.
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2017 · Lugano
A new home in Switzerland
She moved to Lugano to study and stayed for work — a full life of business trips, gym sessions and padel tournaments.
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Summer 2025
“Ma chi se ne frega?”
One morning, over a coffee at home, she said it out loud: who cares? That day she posted the video she calls her “coming out” — showing herself fully for the first time. The response turned into a community.
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2026
The “bionic correspondent”
She covered the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympics for RAI’s Unomattina and joined the studio to tell her story. She’s also a testimonial for the association Bionic People and plays with the Inclusive Padel Tour.
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Today
Bionic, but fashionable
Outfit builds, GRWMs, heels on a prosthetic, honest Q&As about how her leg works — content that makes disability visible, stylish and a little funny. “Some stares,” she says, “I’ve managed to change.”
As featured on Ticinonline RAI · Unomattina