Nick Vujicic
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Vujicic in 2016
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Nicholas James Vujicic 4 December 1982 Melbourne, Australia |
| Education | Bachelor's degrees in accounting and financial planning |
| Alma mater | Griffith University |
| Occupation | Evangelist, motivational speaker |
| Spouse(s) | Kanae Miyahara (m. 2012) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | nickvujicic.com |
Nicholas James "Nick" Vujicic (/ˈvɔɪ.ɪtʃɪtʃ/ VOY-ich-ich;Serbian: [ʋûjitʃitɕ]; born 4 December 1982) is an Australian Christian evangelist and motivational speaker born with phocomelia, a rare disorder characterized by the absence of legs and arms.
Vujicic was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1982, to Dušanka and Borislav Vujičić, devout Serbian Orthodox emigrants from Yugoslavia. His parents became active in a Melbourne church. His mother attended nursing school at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne while his father worked in business management. He was born with phocomelia without some fully formed limbs. According to his autobiography, his mother refused to see him or hold him while the nurse held him in front of her, but she and her husband eventually accepted their son's condition and understood it as God's plan for their son.
Vujicic has two small and deformed feet, one of which he calls his "chicken drumstick" because of its shape. Originally, he was born with the toes of that foot fused. An operation was performed to separate the toes so that he could use them as fingers to grab, turn a page, or perform other functions. He has been able to use his foot to operate an electric wheelchair, a computer and a mobile phone. Vujicic attempted suicide but notes that he had an "amazingly normal childhood".
Vujicic thrived in his teenage and young adult years despite being bullied. After his mother showed him a newspaper article about a man dealing with a severe disability when he was seventeen, he started to give talks at his prayer group.
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