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A model who was shot in the leg while celebrating her 26th birthday backstage at T.I.’s concert says she has a new appreciation for life.

“I’m SO VERY grateful for life,” Maggie Carrie Heckstall, 26, posted on Instagram Thursday morning as she was recovering at Bellevue Hospital.

Heckstall, who posed for a feature in The Post in March, attended Wednesday night’s concert among the entourage of the opening act, including her boyfriend, the rapper Maino.

She found herself in The Post again Thursday, in a front-page photo that showed her on a gurney with a large bandage wrapped around her calf as she held her hand against her forehead in obvious pain.

“God is good,” Heckstall, who is also an aspiring musician, wrote Thursday on Facebook.

Many of her friends were happy to hear she was OK, with one pal commenting on the post, “Yo, you a legit rapper now! Hope it doesn’t hurt.”

Heckstall, who was released from the hospital Thursday, got a bedside visit from superstar 50 Cent. “I’m here to support my friend. His girl was shot,” 50 Cent told The Post, referring to Maino, who took to Instagram Thursday to deny the shooting was over a beef with rapper Troy Ave, the alleged shooter.

Heckstall was featured in a Post article about a popular light-up cellphone case called LuMee, which celebrities are using to enhance their selfies.

She said it gives professional-lighting quality to the selfies she shares with her 67,000 Instagram followers.

Since last weekend, she has been uploading photos of her birthday celebrations, posting pictures on social media of herself and pals partying at the posh rooftop pool at the Gansevoort Hotel on Park Avenue South.

“When you dead but you still had to make it to the pool, Oh it’s my birthday,” she captioned one of the Instagram pictures that shows her wearing a cut-out white bikini.

She later switched into a sheer black dress with a plunging neckline and intricate beading down the front for a night on the dance floor at the Kips Bay club Noble.

“Still in birthday mode,” she wrote Tuesday in an Instagram video that showed a close-up of the floor-length frock.

Heckstall, who lives in Jersey City, could not be reached for comment on Thursday.

Clubgoers at Irving Plaza cower in the corner as, police say, rapper Troy Ave fires his gun. Model Maggie Carrie Heckstall (left) was wounded in the melee.

‘GRATEFUL FOR LIFE’: Model Maggie Carrie Heckstall was released Thursday from Bellevue after getting shot the night before (right).