Tara Moss has thanked her friends and family as she continues her legal battle.
The 49-year-old model-turned-author posted some behind-the-scenes footage from a recent photo shoot on Instagram on Tuesday, along with a sweet caption.
“To you, my friends, I love you. Really,” the author wrote. ‘Thank you for your support. It means the world.”
In the photos, Tara wears a glamorous ensemble at a bar and poses with her cane in a campaign for John Fluevog Shoes.
She added: “For the normalization of mobility aids, dynamic disabilities and more inclusive campaigns!”
Tara Moss (pictured) has thanked her friends and family as she continues her legal battle
The model is in a legal battle with a surgeon who operated on her hip six years ago, claiming his “negligence” left her in a wheelchair.
She claims that for years the operation “caused excruciating pain and loss of work and that she used a cane”, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
The British Columbia woman’s lawyers claim it’s because Blue Mountains doctor Chris Coghill didn’t properly diagnose a labral tear in her hip in 2016 — a claim Coghill has denied.
“Defendant says that if plaintiff suffered damage as alleged, which is disputed, it was caused or contributed to by (her) own negligence,” the defense said.
Both teams met for an arbitration session on Friday to see if they could come to an agreement.
Moss is in a legal battle with a surgeon who operated on her hip six years ago, claiming his “negligence” left her in a wheelchair
They will go to court in May for a planned six-week trial if no agreement can be reached.
Moss recently filed a lengthy “statement of evidence” in support of her case, which includes about 80 pages of social media content.
Tara has been open about her struggles with pain in recent years, documenting her use of a cane and wheelchair on Instagram.
And in 2021, the model gave a revealing interview in which she revealed that the constant pain had changed the way her brain worked.
The brunette beauty told Body and Soul magazine: “I learned that chronic pain is actually neuroplasticity – changes in the brain – gone wrong.
The model-turned-author claims the operation “caused years of excruciating pain and lost work time, leaving her with a cane”, reports The Sydney Morning Herald
Tara has been open about her struggles with pain in recent years, documenting her use of a cane and wheelchair on Instagram
“Now I want to use the brain’s adaptability to work to my advantage and retrain it not to talk so loudly and harshly about my pain.”
Elsewhere in the interview, the author criticized the lack of accessible spaces.
Tara began modeling at the age of 14 before writing and publishing her first novel, Fetish, in 1999.
She is now a best-selling author who has published 13 books in 18 countries and 13 languages around the world and is considered one of Australia’s best crime writers.
The former model lives in the Blue Mountains with her Australian poet husband Berndt Sellheim and their 12-year-old daughter Sapphira.
In 2021, the model gave a revealing interview in which she revealed that the constant pain changed the way her brain worked
Source: Daily Mail
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