Nicholas james now 35 was born on the 4th of Dec,1982 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to Dusanka and Borislav Vujicic.His mum 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..He has two small and deformed feet,one of which he called his " chicken drumstick"because of its shape .
He was born with the toes of the foot that was fused before an operation was performed to separate the toes so that he can use them as fingers to grab,turn a page or perform other functions.. And now he has been able to use his foot to operate an electric wheelchair, a computer and a mobile phone .
There is no medical explanation for his physical disability, an extremely rare congenital disorder known as tetra-amelia syndrome.. He has a small foot on his left hip which helps him balance.
Vujicic attempted suicide when he was young,he thrived in his teenage and young adult years despite being bullied ..He got encouraged when his mum showed him a newspaper article about a man dealing with severe disability and when he was 17,he started to give talks at his prayer group ..He can type, pick things up between his toes and even kick a ball and can also swim..
Confidence didn't come naturally to Vujicic, while growing up in Melbourne, Australia, he struggled with depression and was bullied at school at the age of 10 but overtime he worked on adopting a positive attitude at age 17 ,an encounter with his high school janitor inspired him to go into public speaking.
Now today,Nick Vujicic travels all over the world addressing huge crowds including business groups and school children.. He has visited more than fifty countries and given thousands of talks .
He is the president of motivational speech,runs a non-profit ministry ,life without limbs ,as well as Attitude is Altitude ,which markets his motivational speeches and campaigns against bullying, he had his Bsc in Accounting and financial planning at Griffith university and his first book was "LIFE WITHOUT LIMITS" and it is an inspiration for a ridiculously good life,it was published by Random house in 2010 and has been translated into more than thirty languages.
He is married to Kanae Miyahara,
