Oksana was born with several radiation-induced birth defects,[REF] including tibial hemimelia (resulting in different leg lengths), missing weight-bearing shinbones in her calves, webbed fingers with no thumbs, and six toes on each foot [REF].
When she arrived in the U.S., her father was a professor at the University at Buffalo; she moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 2001 when her father took a faculty position at the University of Louisville,[REF] and graduated from the city's Atherton High School in 2008 [REF].