World’s Thinnest And Bravest Person? Meet Girl, 24, Who Weighs 27 kg, Has To Eat Every 20 Minutes (PHOTOS)
United States – At just 5ft 2″ (1.58m) tall and weighing a little over 27 kg, Lizzie Velasquez, 24, appears worryingly thin at first glance. But her tiny frame wasn’t caused by an eating disorder. Instead, it is the result of a syndrome so rare that it is shared by very few other people in the world.

Her condition means that try as she might, Lizzie, from Austin in Texas, finds it impossible togain weight or store fat, and as a result, she’s forced to eat up to 60 small meals a day.

Despite the challenges, the courageous 24-year-old insists she wouldn’t change a thing about herself and, instead, throws herself into her work as a motivational speaker and anti-bullying campaigner.

“I would never, ever change my appearance, even if I could,” she says. “It’s taken me so many years to accept who I am and like the person that I see in the mirror so I would never change it just to “fit in”.”



But despite her bravery, the condition, which is yet to be fully diagnosed and named, casts a shadow over her life, not least because most of the people who suffer from the syndrome die in childhood.

Her doctor says: “Lizzie is one of the very few people in the world to have this condition. Sufferers have very little muscle mass, their limbs look very thin, spindly, and many of these people, they die very early in life. Other children with this have had very different experiences. Lizzie is 24 right now so she has beaten these odds.”

Because of the illness, Lizzie has already lost the sight in her right eye and has limited use of the other. Nevertheless, she has refused to allow that to stop her and has penned two best-selling books, and works as a motivational speaker doing up to 200 talks a year.

“My parents raised me to be completely normal. They never told me I was different,” she narrates. “The only thing is that I was smaller than the other kids but I was just like them. As I got older, I became more aware of why people were staring at me and I started getting really angry.



“I hated the fact that none of these kids wanted to get to know me. In my mind, I’m just like them and I would never tell my parents I was being bullied so my way of coping with it is when I would take a bath and nobody was in the room with me, and that’s when I would cry.”

Once, she saw a photo of herself on the Internet with a caption ‘The Ugliest Woman In The World’.

“I felt like somebody was putting their hand through the computer screen and punching me over and over,” she says. “There were thousands and thousands of comments. The first one said: “I just threw up over my keyboard. You’re gross.” The second, “eww, kill it with fire, now”. Others asked why my parents didn’t abort me because I’m so ugly. Can you imagine that?”

Despite the vile comments, Lizzie says she has no fear of bullies anymore and if she were to meet one in future, her response would be: ‘I won’.

For now, she’s concentrating on the future and the anti-bullying charity she hopes to set up.

“My dreams for the future are continuing to help others,” she explains. “I want to create an anti-bulling company. Something for kids and adults and teenagers who are struggling and so far, my dreams have come true.”

What a thin young lady!!!

Nomski0: Stick figure things. She should be scouted for modelling.

Is she that thin?

I bet You this young lady is far better than most of You mocking her.

Eeeh ya.. She's rily brave.. I love her..

Well she is beautiful in the eyes of her creator.

Owww!
What a touching story.

I bet, there are people out there who would give anything in the world to be in her position.

Check out, the ability to eat anything, anytime without worrying about adding weight.

But...I doubt anyone would want to look like this.

The girl is really brave sha, people can be cruel.

I wonder if she is dating anyone.

My respect goes to the parents. They've done a great job of raising her and making her have a good self-esteem.
Definitely not easy raising a kid like that.


An average Nigerian parent would blame all the non-existent witches in the village and carry the girl from one church to another, with the girl also growing up to think that she's a curse to the world.

God bless you , bless your generation , God will make you always happy and you wont die an untimely death, In Jesus Name ,,,,,,,,,,AMEN

She looks sick.

I thought we have treated this topic before?

To her critics... You can say whatever you want to say, as you can see, she doesn't give a f**k


To all our girls (fatie bom bom) who are ready to go to any length to get slim...i hope you will now learn how to appreciate your God given body


@topic: May God give her the grace to fulfil her heart desire and achieve her ambition

Una don start dis una rubbish

Allah alone is the All-knowing,the Most-merciful...I am indeed touched!

and can we know the name of this syndrome!

And why was my post hiddedn? Coz i said rather than insulting, you can make her feel better by typing nicely

isnt she the cutest and finest tin my eyes has ever seen




damn am in love

wow that is wowful, but seriously is this a celebrity news/gist/topic. I think there should be a category for oddities

And don't you think the mod will hide this one again.

gluv01: And why was my post hiddedn? Coz i said rather than insulting, you can make her feel better by typing nicely

omg! see person pikin o

IAMBREEZY: And don't you think the mod will hide this one again.

Then it shows abuse of powers. What rule did i break? What was wrong about that? It is obvious that she is thin and not as beautiful as we think, someone called her ugly and thin, and with a smiling emoticon I quoted him and told him to type nicely. You don't need to remind her that she is thin and ugly even though she's not present here.

Why was my post hidden?? That's very wrong• I shouldn't even be getting notifications• I'm sure the Mod who hid my post is like this thin woman• ¤Unfollows thread¤

IAMBREEZY: She looks sick.

Didn't the article say she has a very rare illness? Some people are sha !

I just don't understand how they measured her bravery, or what instrument they used. She's quite skinny, and also not very comely, but I've seen a lot of young and very brave little girls in Nigeria who have to work in the dangerous streets of Lagos to fend for their siblings and parents too. I simply can't agree that this fellow is the bravest in the world just because she was insulted. She is not.

So motivating. This is the kind of story we need on front page. Lalasticlala I trust you naa..

There is a tinner someone in naija. A begger @ abule egba bustop lagos, y cant him enter d guiness book of record, all 4 d white.