Early Life
Born in Vancouver with a deformity to his right foot (club foot) and a vision distortion called (cross-eyes), Hepburn had to go through surgery multiple times during his childhood. He began lifting weights as a high school teen-ager at the Vancouver YMCA, and upon dropping out of school, tried to find work that he could balance with his lifting. Having escaped the Second World War because of his foot, he set about becoming the strongest man in the world.
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