By every medical prediction, Alex Simpson was never supposed to blow out 20 candles. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, with almost no ...

A Nebraska woman born without a brain just celebrated her 20th birthday — and is defying the odds. Alex Simpson of Omaha was born with a rare condition known as hydranencephaly, according to her ...

Doctors never expected Alex Simpson to survive long after birth. Diagnosed with hydranencephaly — a rare condition in which most of the brain’s hemispheres are missing and replaced with fluid — she ...

Nebraska family Shawn and Lorena Simpson spoke to Inside Edition Digital about their child, Alex, who was born with a rare condition where she doesn’t have a brain. Their child wasn’t supposed to live ...

A “miracle” Nebraska woman born without a brain defied the odds as her family marked her 20th birthday — decades after parents were told she’d never make it to 5, reports said. Alex Simpson turned ...

Doctors told her parents she wasn't expected to survive past age 4, but a Nebraska woman born without cerebral hemispheres celebrated her 20th birthday last week. Alex Simpson was diagnosed with ...

Nobody expected Alex Simpson to live past her fourth or fifth birthday. But against all odds, the young Nebraska woman who was born without most of her brain celebrated her 20th birthday in the ...