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Victoria's Secret model out of coma

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Press Trust of India Los Angeles
Dutch model Yfke Sturm has awoken from a medically induced coma following a freak accident with a motorised surfboard.

The 33-year-old blonde, who has modelled for Victoria's Secret, Chanel and Marc Jacobs and hosted reality TV show Holland's "Next Top Model", suffered a fractured skull and vertebrae in the accident off the coast of the Italian island of Ischia and had to be airlifted to a hospital in Naples, reported People magazine.

Her father Wilfred Sturm said his daughter had a "hairline fracture in her skull" but there was "no bleeding".

Sturm, who became a mother in July, is an ambassador for the Dutch Red Cross Foundation.

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First Published: Sep 09 2015 | 8:02 AM IST

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