{"id":30856,"date":"2026-07-10T17:31:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30856"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:31:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:31:36","slug":"born-this-way-star-dies-suddenly-at-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30856","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Born This Way\u2019 Star Dies Suddenly at 36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"16\" data-end=\"115\">Cristina Sanz, beloved star of the Emmy-winning reality series <strong data-start=\"79\" data-end=\"99\">\u201cBorn This Way,\u201d<\/strong> has died at 36.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"117\" data-end=\"298\">Her family shared that Cristina suffered a sudden cardiac arrest while attending her day program and was rushed to the hospital. Despite doctors\u2019 efforts, she sadly did not survive.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"300\" data-end=\"585\">Cristina became known to fans through the A&amp;E series, which followed young adults with Down syndrome as they pursued friendships, relationships, careers, and independence. Viewers also followed her journey with her husband, Angel Callahan, including their wedding featured on the show.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"587\" data-end=\"682\">Her family said they will forever cherish the memories and \u201cCristina moments\u201d she gave them. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yaJUIYfnCCg?si=MDZPFkGlDBO7ADpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristina Sanz, beloved star of the Emmy-winning reality series \u201cBorn This Way,\u201d has died at 36. Her family shared that Cristina suffered a sudden cardiac arrest while attending her day program and was rushed to the hospital. Despite doctors\u2019 efforts, she sadly did not survive. Cristina became known to fans through the A&amp;E series, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30856\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u2018Born This Way\u2019 Star Dies Suddenly at 36&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30858,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30856\/revisions\/30858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}