Little People, Big World’s Tori Roloff Reveals Her ‘Biggest Fear’ When It Comes to Jackson’s Dwarfism
Facing her fears. Tori Roloff took to Instagram on Friday, October 25, to reveal some concerns she has about her son, Jackson. The 2-year-old has the same form of dwarfism as his dad, Zach, and the Little People, Big World star admitted she’s nervous about the future.
“What is your biggest challenge as a mom of a dwarf child?” someone commented on her post about International Dwarfism Awareness Day. In response, the 28-year-old wrote, “I think my biggest fear is him being treated younger than he is. He is completely capable, and I never want him to think he can’t do something because I do it for him.”
When a separate user asked, “What was the one thing you didn’t know about dwarfism before you married into a family with dwarfism?” she sweetly responded, “I knew NOTHING about dwarfism before I met Zach. Zach was the first LP [little person] I’d ever met. He ya [sic] made it so ‘normal’ to me, though.” The pregnant mama added, “I’ve never thought about him being different in the aspect of having a disability. Instead, he’s different to me because of his character.” Aww.
The couple found out about Jackson’s achondroplasia before she gave birth. “We actually found out when I was 34 weeks pregnant, but my doctor had a little more of a heads up than some parents,” Tori revealed during a Q&A with fans in October 2018.
However, they chose not to find out for their daughter. “Odds that it will be a LP?” a curious commenter asked in May, to which Tor simply said, “50/50.” Later, she said, “So everyone keeps asking after seeing the ultrasound of baby girl if she is a little person or average height, and the answer is we don’t know, and we won’t know until she’s born. [You] can find out through an amniotic draw if you’re having a dwarf or not, but Zach and I opted out of that just because we don’t care either way. We also just don’t have a lot of risk involved with it. … We love her and we can’t wait to meet her.”
We can’t wait to meet her, too! Congrats, mom and dad.
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