Posted on 08/17/2013 1:34:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Eight-year-old Gabby Williams weighs only 11 pounds. The tiny girl from Billings, Mont., still looks like an infant and needs to be cared for as if she is a newborn, with her mother and father changing her diapers and feeding her multiple times a day.
Her mother, Mary Margret Williams, told ABCNews.com that Gabby hasn't changed much over the years. In fact, her skin still feels like a baby's and her hair is still fine-textured.
"She has gotten a little longer and we have jumped into putting her in size 3-6 month clothes instead of 0-3 months for the footies," she said.
Gabby is one of only a few people with a baffling condition that seems to prevent them from aging. It's so rare that scientists have yet to coin an official name for it.
TLC shared Gabby’s story back in 2011 in a special called "My 40-Year-Old Child." The hour-long documentary also profiled 40-year-old Nicky Freeman, an Australian man with the appearance of a 10-year-old.
Scientists have since discovered two more people with similar cases of the mysterious syndrome: a 29-year-old Florida man with the appearance of a 10-year-old, and a 31-year-old Brazilian woman who still looks like a toddler. Their stories, along with Gabby's, are part of a follow-up TLC special that airs on Monday at 10 p.m. ET.
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Clint Howard. Not sure if younger or older.
Wow, remembering that really hit me as to how old I am ... Clint is middle aged now, and that episode I watched with my little son!
Exactly what I thought. Looked it up on IMDB, and yes he was in an episode of Star Trek. Plot synopsis certainly would lend me to believe that was the episode he would have been in.
Clint is younger.
“If you want to live long and prosper, drink tranya.”
Is that Ron Howard’s brother?
How many of us have been with this guy?
which one?
the small one
And poor Clint Howard did not age very well.
BTW, was he adopted? he looks nothing like Ron Howard.
And he's apparently a conservative too, so this would fit with the adopted theory.
The 2000 Year Old Man claimed that he breast-fed for 200 years........
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