Cristina Sanz, who appeared in all four seasons of A&E’s Emmy-winning 2015-2019 reality series Born This Way that chronicled the lives of adults living with Down syndrome, died Monday, July 6, after suffering cardiac arrest in Long Beach, California. She was 36.
Her death was announced by parents Mariano and Beatriz Sanz on Instagram.
“It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that our daughter, Cristina, passed away Monday morning,” they wrote. “She suffered a sudden cardiac arrest while at her Day Program and was rushed to the hospital. Despite the doctors’ best efforts to
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