12 yeard old girl April Atkins, carries her family on her back (over 425 lbs) in Muscle Beach, Cal, 1954.

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    1. Electrical-Aspect-13 on

      This girl was a mistery until a user [u/BecomeOcean](https://www.reddit.com/user/BecomeOcean/) helped discover what happen to this short lived acrobat

      Before this I knew she appeared in a issue of life Magazine in 1954, a small local clipping the same date and other photo. Finally I found a small short film with her full act and then, the user found this:

      [https://imgur.com/a/april-patricia-atkins-eIxGm5P](https://imgur.com/a/april-patricia-atkins-eIxGm5P)

      She used to go to Santa Monica high school by the name of “April Patricia Atkins”

      “***Name: April Patricia Atkins [April Rose Schuyler] [Simone Montoya] [S Montoya]***

      ***Gender: Female***

      ***Race: White***

      ***Birth Date: 20 Jan 1942***

      ***Birth Place: Minneapolis, Minnesota [Mpls, Minnesota]***

      ***Death Date: 15 Dec 1987***

      ***Father: Leonard Atkins***

      ***Mother: Mary J Brown***

      ***Death Certificate Number: 8710108***

      ***Disability Status Disability: denied – no record of type.***

      ***Notes: Jun 1956: Name listed as APRIL PATRICIA ATKINS; Sep 1960: Name listed as APRIL ROSE SCHUYLER; 14 Apr 1983: Name listed as SIMONE A MONTOYA***” (INFO FOUND BY THE USER INVESTIGATION).

      The girl changed her name 3 times.

      SOURCES (What i had found): 

      [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxDYn4CVhLY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxDYn4CVhLY)

      [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR55bNXOL4g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR55bNXOL4g)

      [https://www.life.com/lifestyle/april-atkins-photos-of-the-worlds-strongest-seventh-grader/](https://www.life.com/lifestyle/april-atkins-photos-of-the-worlds-strongest-seventh-grader/)

    2. Looks like her legs are completely locked out as well as the man is locking his feet around the inside of her ankles and bracing his thighs so in theory the man could be shifting the load so it’s only going through her ankles.

    3. If you every studied human anatomy, you’d be amazed.

      It still amazes me how much weight our vertebrae can take. Such small bones able to carry that kind of weight.

    4. No-Compote-5424 on

      Can someone tell us if there’s probably a shift of weight from the man above her? her posture helping her in a way? physics helping her out? or is it merely strength and pressure on her knees? she’d probably need hip replacement surgery by 16! It’s very interesting that she had to change names and then disappear? could it be something related to child abuse or something?

    5. NoKaleidoscope4295 on

      Applying over 400 pounds of pressure to a 12-year-old’s bones sounds extremely irresponsible.

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