according to her friends, that is altogether the wrong world word to describe reeva steenkamp. a's journey to a project and began with a phone call in -- >> high. i'm oscar pistorius we did in the last minute. so -- >> reeva was 29 when she lit up the red carpet with oscar at the south at school so that was certainly not 12. reeva had looks, no question there. but according to her friends, that might have been released of her attributes. >> reeva had a brilliant mind. she was smart and funny and all those things, but she was. >> brilliant gina mars was her roommate. we've actually lived with jean on her parents to save money. but also being far from home, she missed her family. and it was comforting to be part of somebody else's. >> he often told me how grateful she was for her upbringing. her family is a very down to earth. they were very humble and exactly the same. >> she grew up in a small farm near the factory town of port elizabeth. came back from the serious fall of a horse. she broke her back. spent eight months in a hospital. had to learn to walk all over again. she att