Mariana Barutkina: Influencer breaks spine after ‘stiletto challenge' inspired by Nicki Minaj goes wrong
Mariana Barutkina, 32, attempted the challenge on a kitchen counter top, balancing on top of a jar of baby food stacked on a saucepan while wearing stilettos.
The challenge is inspired by Nicki Minaj's famous pose in the music video of her song High School.
In the video, the rapper is crouching in stilettos next to a swimming pool with one leg crossed over the top of the other, miraculously balancing.
Ms Barutkina, from Yekaterinburg in Russia, had given birth just eight weeks before she attempted the challenge.
Video footage of the accident went viral, showing her try the stunt before falling backwards off a kitchen counter-top and toppling to the ground.
The accident caused a compression flexion fracture in her spine, The Sun reported.
'I decided to start a blog, my first content shoot — and here I am leaving the doctor's with a diagnosis,' Ms Barutkina wrote on Instagram.
'Irony? Karma? Or just life, which always tests our strength at the most unexpected moment.'
The accident sparked outrage on social media, with many taking aim at her intelligence.
'I'm sorry, of course, but what do people have in their heads who repeat this trash? Which is immediately visible that it is dangerous to health! I wish you a speedy recovery!' one Instagram user commented.
'Well, you're all like teenagers climbing street signs, kindergarten,' another wrote.
'And she looked like an adult,' another user wrote.
Other fans wished her a quick and easy recovery.
'Wishing you a speedy recovery,' one user wrote.
Ms Barutkina took aim at social media users who questioned her fitness as a mother in a recent post addressing the attention her video gathered.
'Whoever worries about my child should also be calm, he has two nannies and while I was filming one of them was with him,' she wrote.
Some fans are calling for the trend to end, saying no one can beat Ms Barutkina.
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