Fans of Fetty Wap know he isn't shy about revealing the eye he lost at an early age. Now that confidence has inspired a young fan with a similar condition.
When the Trap Queen rapper was a small child he got into an accident that left him with congenital glaucoma in both eyes, reports MTV News. Doctors were able to save one eye, but lost the other.
Fast forward to 2015 when the rapper's new album features his missing eye front and center.
S E P T E M B E R 2 5 pic.twitter.com/33EwwlhsBs— FettyWap1738 (@fettywap) August 27, 2015
His experience inspired a young fan named Jayden Vaden, who also lost an eye when he was just an infant. According to a Facebook post from his mother Brenda, Jayden has always worn a prosthetic eye.
"He has always been terrified of taking it out and would not be caught without it," she writes.
But after becoming a Fetty Wap fan, Jayden has decided to stop wearing his prosthetic for the first time in his life.
"This young rapper unknowingly gave Jayden something we weren't able to give him -- the confidence to be different -- and I am grateful to him," Brenda writes. "Thanks to Fetty Wap for saying F the world this is me, and for helping make our baby boy just a little more remarkable than he already is."
The entire, heartening post is available below:
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[H/T: MTV News]