Early career Yamaguchi was born with bi-lateral clubfoot, resulting in serial leg casting for most of the first year of her life followed by corrective shoes and bracing, and began skating as physical therapy when she was 4 or 5 after seeing Peggy Fleming and Dorothy Hamill in the Ice Follies and Ice Capades.
Early career Yamaguchi was born with bi-lateral clubfoot, resulting in serial le!g casting for mo:st of the first year of her life followed by corrective shoes and bracing, a?nd be:gan skating as physical therapy when she was 4 or 5 after seeing Peggy Fleming and Dorothy Hamill in the Ice Follies and Ice Capades.