Over the years, lots of heartwarming stories have touched us, but Tomm Tennent’s is truly one of a kind. Tomm was born with an excessive amount of skin. In fact, he had as much skin as a 5-year-old when he came into the world as a baby. The doctors were shocked when he was born because of how wrinkled he was; they’d never seen anything like it.
“When he came out, I was really taken aback,” Tomm’s father, Geoff Tennent, said in a 2003 interview with 60 Minutes Australia. The Tennent family has been through a lot while raising their special child since the day he was born. It’s hard not to get emotional when you see him now. The family knew right from the moment Tomm was born in 1993 that he was going to be different.
However, before he was born, his parents didn’t know he’d enter the world as a medical mystery. Still, ultrasounds did show that there was something wrong with him.
Geoff Tennent said, “We talked it over between us and decided that whatever’s meant to be, will be. So we went ahead with it.”