Alex Fourie weighed 34 ½ pounds when he came to America at the age of 7.
“The only thing we really ate was soup,” said Fourie, “and it’s really hard to eat soup with a hole in your mouth.”
Fourie, 27, spent the first seven years of his life in Ukrainian orphanages and believes the cleft lip and cleft palate he suffered could’ve resulted from being born near Chernobyl, the world’s worst nuclear disaster. Fourie was also born with one arm.
