Several celebrities have taken notice of Gabi’s story and have shared it with their followers. Below are a few of them:
Cool Tweets
Spotlight: Gabi Ury, 16, broke the longest abdominal plank record and became a guest on @GMA http://t.co/VGZ5rvwch8 pic.twitter.com/frfbd5Wtbj
— GuinnessWorldRecords (@GWR) August 5, 2014
@GWR with 107,000 followers
Wow! Meet the teen who broke the world record for planking! Interview Here: http://t.co/vgKrAZhCmM pic.twitter.com/9buqlOKolI
— sweetyhigh (@sweetyhigh) July 28, 2014
@sweetyhigh with 136,000 followers
Congrats on your new Guinness World Record for the longest time spent in the abdominal plank position, Gabi Ury! pic.twitter.com/fAEoxcNM9B
— Good Morning America (@GMA) April 29, 2014
@GMA with 2,460,000 followers
WOAH! This teen held a plank for one hour and 20 minutes! http://t.co/pYjPy7TpD1 Our abs hurt just thinking about this!
— Women's Health (@WomensHealthMag) April 27, 2014
@WomensHealthMag with 2,500,000 followers
It has always been Gabi’s dream to be on the Ellen show. While the opportunity has not yet come about, Ellen DeGeneres did hear of Gabi and tweeted about her, and Gabi has an article about her on the Ellen Show Good News Blog. Ellen has 34 million followers on Twitter, and of those, 4,300 followers marked Ellen’s tweet on Gabi as a favorite, and 1,100 people re-tweeted it.
Thris 16yroldl girl set anew wirld record for planking. Incrdfbfle. Yu cant tll but I'm in a plankg whil Itweeet this http://t.co/uXvFfh29Iw
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) April 25, 2014
@TheEllenShow with 34,100,000 followers
Gabi Ury is INCREDIBLE. And we, it turns out, are not. Read on for details http://t.co/XYNHJrxYcF pic.twitter.com/R2Tt5fIdOs
— Yahoo Style UK (@YahooStyleUK) April 25, 2014
Erm, that time that we thought we could break the planking world record http://t.co/XYNHJrxYcF (we couldn't) #planks pic.twitter.com/R2Tt5fIdOs
— Yahoo Style UK (@YahooStyleUK) April 25, 2014
@ YLifestyleUK with 22,800 followers
Gaby Ury – não a conheço, mas gostei da sua historia de superação. Boa sorte na tentativa de bater este recorde. ;)))http://t.co/XhQpDkeu8i
— Luciano Huck (@LucianoHuck) April 15, 2014
@LucianoHuck with 9,120,000 followers
Vejam a incrível história da Gabi Ury. Mesmo c/ limitações físicas, ela tentará entrar para o livro dos recordes http://t.co/t6ozVDBUZ7
— Abilio Diniz (@abilio_diniz) April 9, 2014
@abilio_diniz with 230,000 followers
The amazing Gabi Ury (daughter of Getting to Yes author William Ury) is planking for a good cause. Lets support her! http://t.co/Lem0WRUlzU
— Simon Sinek (@simonsinek) April 7, 2014
@simonsinek with 150,000 followers
After 14 surgeries Gabi was helped to walk by Children's Hospital she's working to break a world record & raise funds http://t.co/uNtSTLuBN8
— Tony Robbins (@TonyRobbins) April 8, 2014
@tonyrobbins with 2,500,000 followers
Cool Facebook Posts
Gabi has had several famous people in Brazil comment on her story on their facebook pages.
Luciano Huck, a presenter on Brazil’s primary TV Channel, Canal Globo, wrote about Gabi on his facebook page which over 15 million people like. Over 7,700 people liked his post on Gabi and 490 shared it with others.
Ricardo Kaká, a soccer superstar whose page has 32 million likes, wrote (and translated for any English readers) an inspiring description about Gabi’s endeavor. 3,700 people liked his post.
Estopinha is an incredibly well trained dog (she’ll even answer your skype calls and respond to your commands given through skype), whom 1.8 million people like on facebook. While she may not have written up her beautiful message to Gabi herself, she is holding up her note of best wishes to Gabi in the picture that goes with the facebook post, which over 21,000 people liked and 745 shared.
Abilio Diniz is one of the most well known business leaders in Brazil. He is the former chairman of the Brazilian retail chain Grupo Pão de Açúcar, and is the current chairman of Brazil Foods.