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\nFlavia Bueno, a Brazilian fitness influencer, fell into a coma on Jan. 3 after hitting her head in a diving accident off the coast of S\u00e3o PauloThe internet personality, 35, is known by over 150,000 Instagram followers for sharing fitness and wellness adviceFlavia\u2019s brother Felipe told a local news outlet that she has since regained consciousness and expects to be in the hospital for the next 30 to 40 days<\/p>\n
Flavia Bueno<\/a>, a Brazilian fitness influencer, fell into a coma following an injury from a diving incident on Jan. 3.\n<\/p>\n According to UOL<\/a>, a Brazilian news site, Bueno was diving in Maresias, off the coast of S\u00e3o Paulo, when she hit her head on a sandbar. The content creator fainted after the incident, the outlet continued, and she was transferred to a local hospital, where doctors found that she had suffered a severe spinal cord injury and a brain injury.\n<\/p>\n Bueno is known by over 150,000 Instagram followers for sharing fitness and wellness advice. On Jan. 12, just over a week after the incident, the creator\u2019s family shared a statement<\/a> on her account, informing her followers that she was in a coma in the intensive care unit and is \u201cbravely fighting for her life.\u201d\n<\/p>\n In an update<\/a> later that day, Flavia\u2019s brother, Felipe Checchin da Silva Bueno, shared that she had undergone surgery and was \u201cdoing well.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Felipe told UOL that Flavia has since regained consciousness, can communicate \u201cwithout speaking\u201d to her family, and is expected to remain in the hospital for 30 to 40 days.\n<\/p>\n \u201cFl\u00e1via is a determined woman above all else. She has a huge heart for the lives of others. And she is a very strong woman,\u201d he told the outlet. \u201cInside, she’s a little girl when she’s with her family, but in her personal and professional life, she’s a very strong, very competent woman. Truly, that’s how I see my sister.\u201d\n<\/p>\n The family has also opened a GoFundMe<\/a> to help support the costs of her treatment, which the fundraiser says has already exceeded $200,000, because Flavia did not have health insurance at the time of the incident.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n