This little boy lost his foot at 18 months but became a model and now he travels the world posing for famous brands. Despite his impairment, the boy participated in as many sports and running clubs as possible as he got older.
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00:00He is an amputee model, so it was actually my scan, my 20-week scan. I was going in purely
00:12to find out if it was a boy or girl, but they picked something up at the scan. We went to
00:17Bristol Hospital and they noticed that he was missing parts of his fibular bone. We
00:24then had monthly scans where additional things were coming up, like he only had three toes,
00:30so that's when I first found out. My initial reaction, I was quite shocked because it's
00:35not something you normally hear on a scan, you're just going in for a routine scan. I
00:40looked up loads of Facebook groups and so I saw that there was loads of mums in the
00:45same position and their children were just thriving, so it put me at ease. When he was
00:50born, he was born absolutely perfect, perfect blue eyes, cheeky smile. The milestones he
00:58was doing, he was crawling at I think it was six months. He was even walking, even though
01:04he had a slight discrepancy of his leg, he was walking and he was just doing everything.
01:12When we went to the hospital, we spoke about whether lengthening would be a good option
01:17for his leg or whether he would be better to have an amputation and be fitted with a
01:22prosthetic leg. With the doctor's advice, they said the best thing to do because of
01:27his condition and the severity was to amputate it and that was when he was 18 months old,
01:33so we can't even remember. We went viral on TikTok where we did a prank that was going
01:39around in America to ask your child to have a fight. He went outside, he didn't have
01:45his leg on at the time and he said, I would kick them and he didn't have his leg on.
01:50I think it got 4.7 million views and then we got in touch with so many people. The agency,
01:57Zebedee Talent, actually contacted us and said, we'd love to have Arlo on our books.
02:01He's got such a great character, he's so confident and yeah, we think he'd be amazing. Then within
02:07how many months was it? About three months, he had his first job in Prague.
02:12It was kind of nerve-wracking. I mean, I've never gone aboard for a job before but I think it was a
02:19photo shoot, wasn't it? It was Amazon Web Services. My first one ever. So we attend the Bristol
02:24Enabling Centre, they are so amazing. We've really got close to them and then he sees
02:30the Children's Hospital, so he goes and sees, what's his name, Mr McBride at the Children's
02:35Hospital. We actually saw him this week, didn't we, regarding your knee. So he'll always have
02:39parts of his condition and parts of his leg where his knee's not stable,
02:43parts of his hips and his back, just with a condition. But the team are amazing and every
02:48year we get fitted with a new leg. But as he grows, he has adapters put in his leg
02:53to help with, obviously, him growing because he's so tall.