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Fetty Wap inspires boy to remove prosthetic eye
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Jayden Burgos has worn a prosthetic eye his whole life, but once he saw rapper Fetty Wap bravely face the world with only one eye, the 10-year-old was inspired to remove his own prosthesis.
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Jayden soon decided he wanted to show the world his true self.
"The day he decided to go without his prosthesis he experienced some discomfort and called us a couple times from school," Vaden says. "Each time we told him we could drive to school and bring his prosthetic eye and each time he said he would tough it out. At the end of the day, he said everyone was talking about him, that most kids were curious and wanted to see it, some said it was gross. 'But I really didn't care, it was fine,' he said. 'The kids are calling me Fetty,' he said, with the biggest smile on his face."
Now the rapper himself has weighed in on Jayden's bravery. "I'm glad that I was able to give him the courage to take out his prosthesis," Wap, 25, said in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE. "I know how it feels to be picked on."
He adds: "I'm proud of Jayden and I appreciate him more than he may know."
"If it hadn't been for Fetty Wap having the courage to be himself, Jayden would not have had the courage to go without his prosthesis," says Vaden. "While Jayden has grown up with a very strong support system made up of family and great friends, Fetty Wap inspired him in a way we were not able to – as much as we have tried to instill confidence in him, we don't know what it's like to face the world with only one eye."
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