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- Despite everything he's been through, Hoge has led a beautifully remarkable life. He was the first person in his family to go to college. He became a journalist and then the spokesperson for an Australian politician. He carried the Olympic Torch before the Summer Games in Sydney. He’s been married, twice, and he has two daughters.
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Sep 16, 2013 · In a world obsessed with physical beauty, a Brisbane man who was born with two deformed legs and a large facial tumour is embracing ugly.
- Tim Leslie
Aug 10, 2022 · When Robert Hoge was born, the first thing his mom Mary asked the doctors was: "Is my baby okay?" He wasn't. Hoge, Mary's fifth child, was born with a tumor in the middle of his face and two severely mangled legs.
- Ugliness is not the absence of beauty. It’s not in opposition to it. Ugliness is its own, wonderful thing. Defining ugliness only in opposition to beauty narrows our sense of normal.
- We can acknowledge differences in appearance without attaching value to them. Stop trying to convince people that differences in appearance don’t matter by pretending they don’t exist.
- Beauty itself is a million points on a map. Beauty is a contested space. Notions of what is or isn’t beautiful are constantly changing. No one, except maybe supermodels, will win, however, if we define beauty as just one point on the end of a continuum with ugliness at the other.
- The way we talk about appearance robs kids of their natural acceptance. Folks, I’ve got news for you: our kids are way ahead of us when it comes to this stuff.
Apr 28, 2021 · Hoge, Mary's fifth child, was born with a tumor in the middle of his face and two severely mangled legs. Doctors suspected an anti-depressant she took when she was pregnant might have caused Hoge's birth defects.
Robert Hoge was born with a tumor in the middle of his face and two severely mangled legs. In the 50 years since his birth, Hoge has re-claimed and re-framed...
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Apr 5, 2017 · Hoge was born with facial and body deformities which left him permanently scarred. In his memoir for young readers, Ugly: A Beautiful True Story About Courage, Empathy, and One Very Ugly...
Robert Hoge was born with deformed legs and a giant tumor between his eyes. In his new memoir, he describes his mother's shock and how she decided whether or not to bring him home.
