Film of girl born without legs to premiere. It will include her Myrtle Beach SC vacations

Paige Calendine spent her vacation this past weekend in Myrtle Beach.

She can be seen in a TikTok video her mother posted swimming in the hotel pool, doing a handstand on the beach and visiting Sugar Life - her favorite place to get ice cream.

The family vacation came about two weeks before the premiere of a documentary that will feature the 11-year-old and how she deals with being born bilateral, meaning she does not have both legs.

From the TikTok vidoes her mother, Heidi, posts, it’s obvious Paige doesn’t let her disability affect her - living her life by taking challenges head-on. The videos are dubbed “#Paigesjourney” and they often get more than 4 to 5 million views. The Myrtle Beach vacation video has already received more than 123,000 views.

Her mother said Paige has never let her disability get in her way.

“When she tries to do something, she figures it out,” Calendine said. “We have always told her that you can do whatever you want; you have to figure it out.”

The documentary shows how an 11-year-old is ‘built different’

The idea for the documentary came after one of the producers, Constance Brenneman, saw Calendine’s TikTok videos of Paige, according to Calendine.

Brenneman, along with fellow producer Brad Hammer, who are both award-winning documentary filmmakers and focus on inspirational people and their stories, decided to make the documentary, “Built Different,” about Paige.

The name came from how Paige’s dad always told her that she was “built different” any time she faced a challenge, Calendine said.

Calendine said doctors don’t know 100% why her daughter was born without legs. She and her husband, Sean, didn’t know about their only daughter’s condition until she was born.

She started documenting her daughter’s activities on TikTok about a year and half ago, Calendine said. That includes her involvement in gymnastics, archery, cheerleading, swimming and rock jumping.

Myrtle Beach vacation will be included in the documentary

The premiere of the documentary will take place June 22 in Zanesville, Ohio, where the family lives.

The producers filmed Paige for about a week at her home.

After the documentary premieres, the film will be sent to festivals and presented to Netflix and Amazon for streaming purposes, Calendine said.

Most of the film had already been shot in the fall and winter.

However, the documentary will also include clips from Paige and her family’s Myrtle Beach vacations.

Mother says daughter would move to beach if she could

The family usually vacations in Myrtle Beach every other year, Calendine said. But after this year’s vacation, they are planning to return next year as well.

“This year was the first year we rented a condo on the beach,” Calendine said. “We fell in love with that. (Hearing) the sound of the waves at night. It was a whole different vibe.”

Calendine said her daughter would go to the beach “every day, all day long until the sun goes down,” if she was able. “She would move down there if she could.”

The family was able to ride go-karts, shopping, eating dinner out every night and all the “touristy” things, Calendine said.

Now, that they are back home, Paige is getting ready for her walk on the red carpet.

“I’m excited,” Paige, who will turn 12 in three days, said Monday about the documentary.

She wants to show people through the film that “it’s OK to be different.”