Everyone has read a love story where the prince meets the beautiful princess, and they fall in love and live happily ever after. But today’s story is quite special. Its protagonists are a beautiful young girl and a man with a rare physical disability, who fell in love against all odds and prejudices and started a happy family.
What follows is the story of Nick and Kanae, who inspire people all over the world by following their hearts.
Nick faced enormous difficulties from the moment he was born.
Nicholas James Vujicic, a 40-year-old Australian motivational trainer of Serbian origin, was born with tetra-amelia syndrome. This rare disorder results in the absence of limbs. According to Nick’s autobiography, his mother refused to even see him after he was born.
First, his fused toes had to be surgically separated so that he could hold them. Nick lovingly just calls them “chicken legs”.
Nick Vujicic faced enormous difficulties from the moment he was born. He was the first student with such a disorder to attend a mainstream school in Australia. Despite this, he was ostracized by his peers. But he never gave up. As his father used to tell him: “You are a gift, just wrapped differently.” Nick now lives his life by that motto.
His life changed after meeting Kanae.
Nick and Kanae met in 2010 and immediately fell in love. There was an event in Dallas where Nick was a guest speaker and Kanae went to see it. When they met, she was still in a relationship, but she quickly realized that Nick had the qualities she had always been looking for in a man.
For Nick, it was love at first sight. Kanae also remembers the strong attraction she felt for Nick when she first laid eyes on him. He felt their eyes meet, the chemistry between them immediately started to work.
After the event, Nick texted Tammy, one of his friends, to help him meet Kanae. From that moment on, events accelerated. After dating for a while, Nick posted on Facebook that he was engaged to Kanae. This took place on August 1, 2011, on a yacht in Santa Barbara. Nick pulled the ring onto Kanae’s finger with his mouth. They were married on February 12, 2012.
The happy couple became inseparable after the wedding. The family is growing rapidly, Nick is now the father of 4 children. They had 2 sons and 2 daughters, and the close bond between them is also evident in the photos posted on their social media pages. Nick always voices how much he misses his wife when he travels to conferences without her, and in his posts he never forgets to mention how much he loves her.
Kanae is a devoted wife and a very proud mother. In one of her Instagram posts , she wrote: “Everything a mother could wish for was given to me. It’s good to be able to confidently say that my children love me and I couldn’t love them more.”
The couple wants to set an example for all their followers.
Kanae wrote about their relationship in a touching post on the occasion of their anniversary:
”I just want to brag about my husband. Fate has put so many things on him, yet the first thing in the morning was that he brought me flowers and said: “Happy anniversary, my love!” I love her.
We started the year with a rollercoaster ride, saw our loved ones go to heaven, and welcomed new life into the world. Mountains and ups and downs, but together through everything.”