FAME, FAMILY & SECRET STRUGGLES

It's not just success that helped shape Carrie Underwood into the strong woman she is today

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Everything happened so fast. While taking her dogs out, Carrie Underwood tripped and fell on the steps outside her home nearly seven years ago, sustaining injuries so "gruesome," she later said, she needed more than 40 stitches in her face as well as surgery to place a plate and pins in her mangled wrist. The Oklahoma-born beauty was terrified she would look "different" and plagued with "much uncertainty as to how things [would] end up," she admitted. "It's crazy how a freak random accident can change your life."