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'When he bit me in the stomach I couldn't breathe': The teenager who fought a shark on a Florida beach

2023-05-16T03:10:29.935Z

Highlights: Ella Reed, 13, was bitten on her torso, fingers, an arm and a knee. He ended up with 19 stitches. Now he tells how he managed to save his life and tells if he would return to the sea. "I just remember I was breathing hard and when he bit me in the stomach I couldn't breathe and I was thinking, 'What the hell is happening to me,'" Reed said Monday during an interview with TODAY. "The first thing she did was tell her friend to run, she didn't ask for help. I was trying to save her."


Ella Reed, 13, was bitten on her torso, fingers, an arm and a knee. He ended up with 19 stitches. Now he tells how he managed to save his life and tells if he would return to the sea.


By Anna Kaplan - TODAY

A 13-year-old girl bravely defended herself from a shark in the waters off Fort Pierce, Florida, and is now recovering from the attack that left her with bites on her torso, arm, fingers and a knee.

Ella Reed, who lives a few feet from the beach, was confronted for the first time in her life Thursday with what she believes was a bull shark.

"I just remember I was breathing hard and when he bit me in the stomach I couldn't breathe and I was thinking, 'What the hell is happening to me,'" Reed said Monday during an interview with TODAY.

Ella Reed, 13, survived a shark attack in Fort Pierce, Florida.

The eighth-grader explained that she blocked the shark with her arm after she felt a bite in the stomach. She then yelled at a friend who was swimming nearby to go to safety, then go back to fighting the shark.

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"First he bit me in the stomach. And as soon as he bit me in the stomach, I put my arm so he couldn't do it back there and then he bit me on the arm," Reed said. "Then I hit him with my other hand on his nose and face."

Reed said he got out of the water and FaceTime his brother to get help because he thought his mom wasn't home. The mother, Devin Reed, told TODAY she initially thought her daughter was joking.

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"At first I thought he was joking and then he said, 'I'm not kidding.' He picked up the camera and showed me his body. I kind of froze and got very nervous," she said. "The first thing she did was tell her friend to run, she didn't ask for help. I was trying to save her."

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The mother said she ran outside as the 13-year-old came home in a golf cart. He immediately put her in his car and drove to the fire station.

"I thought it would be faster and much better for her to put her in hands to take care of her as soon as possible," he explained. "They took her to the emergency room."

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The girl ended up with 19 stitches in total, five in her torso and 14 in one leg.

Ella Reed confessed that it is difficult to sleep after the incident, but that she will not let the attack stop her from returning to the beach or achieving her dream of becoming a marine biologist.

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The mother added that her daughter is proud of her scars. "She thinks, 'If I survived this, I'm going to show it to people,'" Devin Reed said. "No, she won't let me help her with the scars in any way."

Source: telemundo

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