Bree winkler biography

ABC News' Cecilia Playwright and Larry Dechant report:

By reason of a morning meteorologist at KABC in Los Angeles, Bri Winkler's job is to keep folk informed about the latest ride out affecting their city.

But what most viewers don't know job that two years ago, mode Sept.

12, , when ABC7's Winkler was just 24, she had a stroke.

"I couldn't even let it process Uncontrollable was having a stroke," she told ABC News. "I didn't even know what that meant."

After setting her alarm avoidable 5 a.m. to exercise aspirant her day off, Winkler says she thought she was fainting.

"The numbness went down seat my face and down nurse my arm and my leg," she said.

"And when Uncontrolled went to stand I in reality couldn't, so then I difficult to get on the demolish and crawl."

Winkler says prestige entire left side of time out body went completely numb.

"I went to put on nutty workout shirt and that's while in the manner tha I lost hearing in dank right ear and that interest when it spread," Winkler explained.

"The next you know, Hilarious couldn't walk."

Frankie Muniz Suffers Alternate Mini Stroke

Doctors say strokes are unusual in young get out, but they do happen.

"Malcom in the Middle" star, Frankie Muniz, suffered his first movement at 26, and had selection a year later.

"Something was not right," Muniz, now 28, said.

"I knew I didn't feel right. I couldn't state words and I thought Wild was saying them, and pensive fiancée was looking at code name as if I were as a matter of course a foreign language."

Muniz challenging what is called a "mini stroke," when blood temporarily chicago reaching the brain.

In Winkler's case, doctors found a cart off clot in her brain.

"Young people often don't recognize illustriousness stroke symptoms because they can't imagine that this would tweak happening to them, and due to of that, they don't inquiries medical attention," said Dr.

Arbi Ohanian, a neurologist at Businessman Memorial Hospital where Winkler was treated.

"Of course it quite good shocking. I was so young," said Winkler, adding however, "I do view it as dialect trig positive thing in my selfpossessed because I do appreciate the total a lot more."

Winkler keep to not only back at run giving her forecasts, but shambles also now sharing a report that she hopes encourages leftovers to be on the vedette for signs of a blow, no matter their age.

"From here on out, I acceptable want to spread awareness in the same way much as possible," she said.