Nick Vujicic

Vujicic was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1982 to Dušanka and Borislav Vujičić, Serbian immigrants from Yugoslavia.[5][6]

He was born without fully formed limbs. According to his autobiography, his mother refused to see him or hold him when the nurse held him in front of her, and she and her husband went out of the hospital and vomited from seeing their son with no limbs, but they eventually accepted the condition and understood it as "God's plan for their son."[7]

Originally, the toes of one of his feet were fused. An operation was performed to separate the toes so that he could use them as fingers to grab. He refers to it as his chicken drumstick.[8]

After his mother showed him a newspaper article about a woman praying with a severe disability when he was seventeen, he started to give talks at his prayer group. [9] Vujicic graduated from Griffith University at the age of 21 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree, with a double major in accountancy and financial planning.

In 2005, Vujicic founded Life Without Limbs, an international non-profit organisation and ministry. In 2007, he founded Attitude is Altitude, a secular motivational speaking company.

Vujicic starred in the short film The Butterfly Circus.[10] At the 2010 Method Fest Independent Film Festival, he was awarded Best Actor in a Short Film for his starring performance as Will.[11]

On his webpages, in a self-formulated "Statement of Faith", Vujicic states his adherence to born-again Christianity.[12]

Vujicic speaking to students in Florida in 2015

In 9 March 2002, he moved to California. In 2008 in McKinney, Texas, near Dallas, he met Kanae Miyahara. They married on February 12, 2012.[13] The couple has four children[14][15][16] and reside in Southern California.[17]

Vujicic's first book, Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life, was published by Random House in 2010 and has been translated into over 30 languages.[18]

• Life Without Limits: Inspiration of a Ridiculously Good Life (2010); ISBN 978-0307589743
• Your Life Without Limits (2012); ISBN 978-0307731043
• Limitless: Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life (2013); ISBN 978-0307730916
• Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action (2013); ISBN 978-0307730893
• The Power of Unstoppable Faith (2014); ISBN 978-1601426765
• Stand Strong (2015); ISBN 978-1601427823
• Love Without Limits (2016); ISBN 978-1601426185
• Be the Hands and Feet: Living Out God's Love for All His Children, February 13, 2018; ISBN 978-1601426208

• Hirotada Ototake, a Japanese sports writer and survivor of tetra-amelia syndrome
• Joanne O'Riordan, an Irish Tetra-amelia syndrome survivor
• Jennifer Bricker, an American acrobat born without legs