Karneshia Shantel, best known as K.Shantel, is a model and disability influencer hailing from Senatobia, Mississippi that has taken the runway by storm in what she considers both her best friend and her worst enemy – her infamous purple wheelchair. K. Shantel has had a love-hate relationship with her chair since the age of three after an early diagnosis of spina bifida. Spina bifida is a birth defect in which an infant’s spine is underdeveloped that caused her to not have use of her legs. Nonetheless, she is defying the odds by showing the world that you don’t have to be of a certain build, height, or even have the ability to walk in order to strut your stuff down the runway. She believes the standard of beauty should not be confined to one category but instead show inclusiveness of people from all walks of life — no pun intended.