Soon after Tim’s risky and now-famous birth (he was nearly aborted due to medical complications, and doctors called his safe birth “miraculous”), his sister Katie, who was just 8 years old at the time, quickly adopted the role of his second mother and insisted on carrying him everywhere she went. “At the time, I was growing and gaining weight quickly, which was probably a result of all those prayers on my behalf,” Tebow writes in his memoir Through My Eyes. But the prayers for his healthy growth worked almost too well. “Poor Katie. She ended up having to have surgery for a double hernia before we returned to the States, which everyone, to this day, blames me for.”
9 Things You Might Not Know About Tim Tebow
As the Denver Broncos face the New England Patriots, here's what you might not have heard about the much talked-about quarterback.
He Gave His Sister a Double Hernia
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What You Don't Know About Tebow
- John 3:16 Wasn’t His Original Eyeblack Verse
- Candidates Can’t Get His Endorsement
- He Frequents Prisons
- He Helped Perform Circumcisions
- He Gave His Sister a Double Hernia
- He is the #1 Religion Author of 2011
- He Only Follows One Woman on Twitter
- He’s America’s Most Wanted Neighbor
- He’s More Talked About Than the Royal Wedding