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A Profile on Natalee Righetti By: Laurel O’Such
While in P.E. class sopho-
more year, Natalee was doing the push-up test when her teacher told her, “you can’t do this” and laughed in her face. Natalee,with a paralysed left hand, wouldn’t take her disability as an excuse and responded with, “I can at least try, can’t I?” So, Natalee got down into the pushup position next to all of her peers and
proceeded to do the pushups. She later said to me that she didn’t do as well as she would’ve liked to do, but she did it to prove her teacher wrong.
Natalee is the daughter of
Dave Righetti, pitching coach for the San Francisco Giants. On July 19th, 1991, Natalee, Nicolette, and Wesley were
born, and every newspaper was wondering about the triplets that were born prematurely and via surrogacy to Dave and Kandice Righetti. The LA Times writer Marty Noble wrote, “Righetti Has New Perspective: Parenthood: Birth of triplets is cause for celebration.” In this article Righetti explained that complications were a concern. Mr. Righetti first stated Natalee