Blind woman who regained vision gushes over her ‘cutie’ husband

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder — but that has a different meaning for one young couple.

Sophia Corah lost her vision at 18, suddenly waking up with poor eyesight in May 2017 and being declared legally blind in August 2017.

The teen was later diagnosed with keratoconus, according to South West News Service. The condition occurs when the clear, dome-shaped front surface of the eye thins and gradually bulges outward into a cone shape, according to the Mayo Clinic.

“At first I thought it was an allergy attack or something,” the now-24-year-old told SWNS.

“I drove to school and realized my eyesight was going when I couldn’t read the paper,” she continued. “It was so scary, and I think I sobbed for six months.”

Despite her condition, Corah attended Adams State University in Colorado and was studying psychology when she met Christian Corah, now 25, and they immediately felt a connection.

The pair were close friends at first — with Christian supporting Sophia as her condition deteriorated — even researching the disease and discovering a surgery that could help her regain her vision.

After helping raise around $19,381 in only five weeks for the multiple procedures — which would stop the cornea from bending out of shape — Corah was able to have the operation in October 2018 and fully regained her eyesight in August 2019, according to SWNS.

“My vision slowly started coming back, but it was very gradual while I healed,” Corah said. “I was able to start wearing … [scleral] contacts, which meant I could see, but it was very intense, and I could only wear them for a few hours at first.”

Not long after recovering from her surgery, Sophia realized she had feelings for Christian, declaring her love to him in October 2020.

“Christian and I had stayed in touch after I went home for the surgery, and I realized that no one else made me feel like he did,” she explained, adding she decided to tell him how she felt.

“I could see how handsome he was — he had a gorgeous smile,” she told SWNS. “I knew I’d fallen for him and had to tell him how I felt.”

“It was really intense, seeing him for the first time, because I could see every detail of his face so clearly,” Corah, a science teacher in New Mexico, admitted. “But after I’d calmed down, I realized what a cutie he was.”

Corah said when she saw Christian for the first time, he was just as handsome as she imagined — but she fell in love with “him as a person,” not for his “good looks.”

“I had already built a connection with him that it didn’t matter what he looked like, but it was very nice to properly see his face after all this time,” she said. “He was even more handsome than I could have imagined.”

Luckily, Christian, who works as a data analyst, felt the same way, and the two started dating and got married in June 2021.

“It’s been an amazing journey,” Corah said. “Christian was there for me in the toughest times of my life and supported me and made me feel so special, it brought us so close together.”

Christian agreed, saying his wife is “so resilient,” admitting he fell for her from the start.

“She would play pingpong with me when she was blind and beat me at pool,” he said. “As soon as I met Sophia, I was drawn to her.

“She was such a fighter, and she’d never use her blindness as an excuse.”