44 years ago, an Australian woman who gave birth to four healthy children gave birth to a fifth child, but he looked very different from his siblings.

44 years ago, an Australian woman who gave birth to four healthy children gave birth to a fifth child, but he looked very different from his siblings.

Robert Hoge was born with severe deformities, with a giant tumor, the size of a tennis ball, fixed between his eyes, and his legs were so deformed that doctors had no choice and amputated them.

In the days following his birth, Robert’s mother had been so shocked by her newborn’s face that she refused to see him for a week. She didn’t even want to take him home.

In fact, at one point, she was so horrified that she said she wanted to die. “It’s so ugly,” she told her sister.

For several complicated reasons, Robert’s mother struggled with her son’s deformities, and since then, she has been extremely open with all the torment she has gone through.

Before you start judging, you should know that Robert’s mother is not the negative character in his life story, on the contrary.

Everything changed for Robert and his mother after a family reunion essential to what followed.

Here is what this child looks like today, now a man, and tells how his mother influenced his life in an unexpected way.