{"id":194262,"date":"2019-01-10T17:50:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T23:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=194262"},"modified":"2019-01-11T14:49:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T20:49:02","slug":"tim-tebow-fiancee-sister-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tim-tebow-fiancee-sister-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Tebow’s fiance\u00e9 says sister with disability shows her ‘how special life is’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pro-life football and baseball star Tim Tebow, who also has a charity called, “Night to Shine,”<\/a> a prom for individuals with special needs, has just announced his engagement to Miss Universe 2017,\u00a0Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, who is from South Africa. The couple reportedly met<\/a> at a DIRECTV Superbowl party in 2018. When Tebow proposed, both their families — hers, who had been flown in from her home country — were watching, unbeknownst to Nel-Peters.<\/p>\n

The joyful news was long awaited, especially by Tebow himself, who told PEOPLE<\/a>\u00a0in 2017 that he was looking for “someone who has a good heart” and is “kind, and they have to care about people who can\u2019t do anything for them in return.” And it appears that he believes he has found his match. According to USA Today<\/a>, Nel-Peters told the Miss Universe organizers that her inspiration in life is someone she loves, who can’t do anything for her in return: her sister. She said:<\/p>\n

My half-sister was born without a cerebellum and is completely disabled.\u00a0She is my biggest motivator and inspiration, because her situation makes me realize how special life is, and I always want to work twice as hard, enjoy life twice as much so that I can enjoy it for her as well. Therefore each experience I encounter is that much more special.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n