Kenny Easterday
Kenneth Easterday (December 7, 1973 – February 12, 2016) was an American man born with the rare disability, sacral agenesis. To improve his mobility, his legs were amputated at the hip when he was just six months old.
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Kenny Easterday
- Name
- Kenny Easterday
- Birth Name
- Kenneth Easterday
- Born
- 7 December 1973
- Birthplace
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Died
- 12 February 2016
- Place of death
- Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Education
- New Horizon School
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages
- English
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Kenny Easterday vécut du 11 décembre 1973 au 12 février 2016 et fut acteur.
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Kenny Easterday naquit le 11 décembre 1973 à Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Kenny Easterday mourut le 12 février 2016 à Beaver, Pennsylvania.
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• Name — Kenny Easterday • Birth Name — Kenneth Easterday • Born — 7 December 1973 • Birthplace — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. • Died — 12 February 2016 • Place of death — Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, U.S. • Death Cause — Complications from sacral agenesis • Education — New Horizon School • Other Names — The Man with Half a Body
Life and career
Life and career
He was born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. The amputations took place in two stages. The first amputation surgery took Easterday's shin bones, which were used to replace his missing spinal column. At the time of Easterday's first amputation surgery he was only expected to live six months to one year. At six months of age, Easterday underwent a second and final amputation surgery, which involved amputating the rest of his remaining legs at the hips. Easterday gained some notability following the 1988 release of the Canadian movie Kenny, in which he played a fictionalized version of himself. He was a regular on The Jerry Springer Show in which he functioned as "The Messenger". He was also the focus of a 2010 TLC special titled The Man with Half a Body. Easterday died on February 12, 2016, aged 42.
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Aliquippa.
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Pittsburgh.
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- 1.FOX News Network. Man With Half a Body Subject of New Documentary. April 5, 2010.
- 2.Blank, Ed. Area native relished making film about West Aliquippa boy. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. September 19, 2004.
- 3.Pongracz, Melanie. Kenny Easterday. Prezi. Melanie Pongracz. March 13, 2014.
- 4.The Learning Channel. The Man with Half a Body — Paternity Test (YouTube video). April 2, 2010.
- 5.The Man With Half a Body. ABC News.
- 6.Tennent, James. Kenny Easterday dies: Man with half a body famed for Jerry Springer appearances dies at 42. February 16, 2016.
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