Bride-To-Be Loses Her Arm In Crocodile Attack Days Before Her Wedding, Still Walks Down The Aisle
Bride-to-be lost her arm in a crocodile attack
Most brides worry about a few pressing wedding-day concerns. Like hair. And makeup. And whether a relative will make a drunken embarrassment out of themselves on the dance floor. But for Zanele Ndlovu, her biggest worry was whether or not she would even be alive to make it down the aisle to wed her future husband. Because in a horrifying turn of events, the bride-to-be lost her arm in a crocodile attack just five days before she was set to marry her longtime love. But she had the determination beyond all reason to make it down the aisle. So Ndlovu pulled through and is allegedly now “happier than she was before” the mauling.Meet Zanele Ndlovu
Zanele Ndlovu is a 25-year-old former Zimbabwean national tennis player who had the terrible misfortune of taking an ill-fated river trip just five days before her wedding.
Set to marry her British-born fiance Jamie Fox, Ndlovu had no idea when stepping into her inflatable boat that her life would be threatened by a hungry crocodile.
The Attack
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While canoing with her future husband on the Zambezi river, Ndlovu was savagely bitten on her right arm by a crocodile lurking just below the water’s surface. Instantly, the 25-year-old was pulled underwater and tossed about like a rag doll.
“My first thought was, ‘I am going to die,'” she admitted. “The water was now bloody.”
Love Has No Fear
Unwilling to watch his longtime love be mauled to death in front of him, Fox jumped in the water to save his fiance.
“Jamie swam over to where I was struggling with the crocodile that was trying to pull me to the bottom of the river and grabbed my waist and with the other hand he rained blows down on the crocodile,” said Ndlovu. “The pain was excruciating but Jamie was by my side and I summoned the strength to fight through it.”
False Sense Of Security
Before the attack, the couple was relaxed and happy to take in the breathtaking scenery around them. “We had no fears at all but they [the guides] did mention that we would see a couple of crocodiles but they didn’t warn us that they could attack us, so we were quite relaxed.
We were not expecting anything like that to happen,” said Ndlovu.