Limbless Japan wife and mother shows online bullies disabled people deserve happiness
- Born with severe disabilities, woman finds love, battles to bring daughter into world against all odds
A Japanese mother who was born minus three limbs and with just a stump for the other became a YouTube influencer to prove to bullies that a disabled person can also be a good mother, moving many people online.
When Ami Sano, 34, gave birth to her daughter, Mei, in 2020, she faced many malicious comments from strangers, doubting that she could be a good mother because of her disability.
She was born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare congenital disorder characterised by the absence of four limbs. Sano is bereft of three limbs and has an underdeveloped left leg and foot with three toes.
She managed to learn life skills, writing and drawing under her mother’s guidance and went to regular schools, even becoming a cheerleader at secondary school.
Sano worked as a voice actress and office assistant after graduation, and made her own living like anyone else. But she had always dreamed of making a family.
She shared that she experienced trauma from a past relationship when a boy she met at school abruptly left after seeing her.
