Celebrity Parents Skate Great Scott Hamilton Becomes a Gold Medal Dad For more information on Scott Hamilton and and many more celebrities, visit www.celebrityparents.com. Like so many storybook heroes, Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton, 46, had an unlikely journey to his icon status. At just six weeks old, Hamilton was adopted by Ernest and Dorothy Hamilton and he began his life in Bowling Green, Ohio. Around age 2, he developed a condition in which he appeared to stop growing. That’s when the quest to determine what was wrong with him began – doctors treated him for everything from cystic fibrosis to Schwackman's Syndrome, a pancreatic enzyme deficiency. Hamilton’s parents took him to Boston's Children's Hospital where it was discovered that what Hamilton had was a problem with his intestinal system – he wasn’t absorbing food. A special diet and moderate exercise seemed to help the condition, and by age 9, Hamilton started ice-skating. “I wanted to be in sports but I was pretty weak and undersized and underdeveloped so it was kind of tough for me to be competitive because all of the other kids were bigger and stronger, faster,” Hamilton says. To read the rest of this interview, check out the current issue of Family Energy!