Fourie moved to the states when he was almost seven, after spending his childhood in various orphanages in Ukraine.
Fourie was born with a cleft lip pallet and one arm due to radiation exposure. He was taken to a baby orphanage straight from the hospital after being born.
A couple years later he was moved to a children's orphanage, spending most of his time there until he was adopted into the U.S. in 1999.
