Irish actress and
Celebrity Traitors player Ruth Codd has undergone a second leg amputation. The 29-year-old is currently recovering from the surgery.



On Nov. 26, she posted a video on TikTok in which she said she is at her parents’ place recovering from the operation.

“Good news, we’ve had a full-circle moment. I’m back making TikTok content in my parents’ house. Bad news, I can’t do it upstairs because I’ve just had my second below-knee amputation ,” Codd said.

She added: “There’s a lot to unpack for everyone involved.”



Ruth Codd’s journey

Codd had her right leg amputated at the age of 23 because of a soccer injury she sustained at 15. The injury she suffered while playing soccer did not heal, and years later she had to undergo a below-knee amputation as a result.

“I got injured at 15, and I didn’t get my leg amputated until I was 23. So, those eight years were operation after operation, and sometimes they kind of worked for a while, and then I’d end up back on crutches,” Codd told
Teen Vogue in 2022. “At that age, you think you’re unstoppable, and it was a lot of having to learn a bit too young that sometimes life doesn’t really work out the way you thought it would.”



She also spoke about how the physical challenges turned her into a stronger person. “But I wouldn’t change it. It made me a really resilient person. I’m thankful for just being able to do simple things like walk around or go on a bike or ride my horse. It teaches you not to take things for granted,” she said. She spoke about how her life “really kind of took a turn” after she had her right leg amputated. In fact, she described it as the “best thing I ever did.”

“I spent so many years trying to flog a dead horse, essentially, and having every operation under the sun,” she explained. “And I was so scared of this one thing happening. Then, when it happened, I was like, ‘Oh.’ But I got through it and I’m fine — still here. The first step I remember taking on my prosthetic leg, the first thing I said was, ‘Oh, it’s not sore anymore.’ I didn’t even realise how much pain I was in all the time. I had just got used to it,” she said.



Representation matters



Ruth Codd has been vocal about how disability is portrayed in mainstream media. She rose to fame on TikTok, which led to her role in Netflix’s
The Midnight Club, produced by
The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan. She played the role of Anya, an amputee with a terminal illness. “You don’t get a lot of disabled representation in media nowadays. A lot of times, we’re forgotten about. When we are represented, we’re either this kind of saintly little thing that didn’t deserve for this to happen to her or you’re portrayed as bitter. … Whereas Anya, she’s just human, and the emphasis is on her character and not so much her disability. She’s a firecracker — really ballsy and funny,” she said.

She recently appeared in
Celebrity Traitors UK .