The family was given a couple of possible explanations for Enya’s limb differences – including umbilical cord complications or a twin that died in the womb – but have never been able to give a definitive answer.Ī post shared by Enya van Egmond 🇳🇱 competed for five years and flew to South Korea in 2018 after placing for the Dutch team.
“I’m so grateful to them they agreed with doctors - it was only a few toes, and they weren’t in the right place anyway.' “It was a hard decision for my parents to agree to the amputation, but they knew it was for the best as I wouldn’t have been able to walk properly otherwise,” Enya said. She had a few toes on her left leg, but before her first birthday, these were amputated as they would have prevented the tot from being able to walk without the use of crutches. When Enya was born, her parents - Bibi Zwolman, 57, and Arthur van Egmond, 58 - had no idea their child would be born without two of her limbs.īaby Enya arrived with no left hand or forearm, and no left foot or lower left leg. “Being born this way has given me so many opportunities and made me more determined, it’s a bit of a superpower. “I would be boring if I was normal, with two hands and two feet. A post shared by Enya van Egmond 🇳🇱 a sports and movement student at Roc Nijmegen University, from Arnhem, the Netherlands, said: “I believe this is how I’m meant to be.
