Leah Stewart, 35, spent 10 days in a coma after being viciously mauled in the first shark attack at Sydney's Coogee Beach in over a century on June 13.

Leah Stewart has opened up about the terrifying moment she realised she was 30cm from a 'monster' shark at Sydney's Coogee Beach.

Leah Stewart says it was the love for her little girl and the thought of her growing up without a mother, that helped her conquer a great white.