Eddy Newton – Founder of Eddy Unmasked
ASTONISHED!! The words from Eddy’s childhood Doctors. Eddy wasn’t predicted to live past the early stages of childhood, after being diagnosed with the most infamous genetic disorder known as Neurofibromatosis at the age of 3 years old. A few years later, Eddy’s father abandon the family, which included a younger brother and sister.
Eddy’s biggest surgery was at the young age of 8, where the talented team of Doctors removed a 7 ½ pound tumor. As Eddy shares when he talks to the youth, he suggests: “the next time you go to the grocery store, hold up a small watermelon. Try to imagine how that can come from an 8-year-old neck”
Through his years of school. Being in Elementary, both Jr High and High school Eddy was be a witness and victim and of the bullying epidemic we have in this Country, but Eddy kept his stride. In his young adult life, Eddy was dating a young woman and found love in the wrong place. She used him and from that Eddy did something that children always threaten their parent with, Eddy joined a traveling circus as a side-show freak. The circus was ‘the greatest show on earth.” Only 9 months later Eddy was able to remove himself from the abyss of the defeatism that he was feeling. The circus was ‘the greatest show on earth.” Only 9 months later Eddy was able to remove himself from the abyss of the defeatism that he was feeling.
Today Eddy shares his story to help children and teens cope with self-esteem and bullying issues.