- Born
- Died
- Frieda Pushnik was born armless and legless after her mother had an appendix operation while pregnant. As a child she was "drafted" as a resident guest of sideshows with both "Ripley's Believe it or Not" and the "Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus". She was part of sideshows from 1933 to 1956, when such attractions were outlawed as "exploitive".
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- (1933-1939) Exhibited by Ripley's Believe It or Not as "Little Frieda Pushnik, the Armless, Legless Girl Wonder"
- (1943-1956) Exhibited by Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus
- Lost her limbs when her mother, while pregnant, underwent an appendectomy.
- Billed as "The Armless, Legless Girl Wonder", she spent many years as one of the sideshow attractions with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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