This Itasca pageant contestant had a stroke at 29. She wants other young people to be spared.

When she was 29 and on leave from the Luvabulls for the birth of her second son, Natalie Poli suffered a stroke, the result of undiagnosed congenital heart disease. Sixteen years later she has found a platform to speak out about strokes among the young — the Mrs. International Pageant, where all the contestants must have a cause to promote.

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