World's Smallest Girl Proud Of Her Tiny Size

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4-7-2008 | Kate Day

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World's smallest girl proud of her tiny size

By Kate Day
Last Updated: 2:44am BST 07/04/2008

At just 1ft 11 in tall, she is dwarfed by her neighbour's baby, but Jyoti Amge is 15 years old.

How About That? Because news doesn't have to be serious The teenager, who is the world's smallest girl according to the Indian Book of Records, has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia. Now fully grown, she weighs just 11 lb.

Jyoti Amge with a neighbour's 13-month old baby and with her school friends

Far from being unhappy about her tiny size, Jyoti says that she enjoys the celebrity status her height has brought her. “I am proud of being small. I love the attention I get,” she told the Sunday Mirror.

“I'm just the same as other people. I eat like you, dream like you. I don't feel any different.”

Jyoti attends her local high school, in Nagpur, India, where she studies alongside classmates of her own age, though she sits at a specially made miniature desk.

Her mother, Ranjana, 45, explained that her daughter's condition was not apparent until some time after her birth. “When Joyti was born she seemed quite normal. We came to know about her disorder when she was five,” she said. “Jyoti is small, yet cute, and we love her very much.”

Like any other teenager, she loves listening to pop music and watching DVDs and even hopes to become a Bollywood actress. She has recently recorded an album with her favourite Indian pop star, Mika Singh.

[mysterio]

Wow, that’s an amazing story. It is so wonderful she has found a way to be happy. She’s quite a strong young lady.

[TheBattman]

Absolutely sick statement...she is only 15. Were you confessing to having thoughts of pedophilia?

[lmr]

Could her frame withstand the G-forces, though?

It's a interesting point.

[weegee]

Shades of the incredible shrinking man.

And I saw a woman under 3 feet tall walking through the crowd at the rodeo a few years back without getting walked on.

[CedarDave]

Speaking of oddities, you know the old saying, two heads are better than one...

[tet68]

Now that is scary.

[pyx]

At just 1ft 11 in tall

She looks in the picture like she is about one third the height
of the girl on the far right. That would make all of her 15
year old class-mates about five feet nine inches tall and
some would be close to six feet if that picture is real.
hrmmmm

[ApplegateRanch]

President of the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox's, dream date!

Of course, he still has his third (and functional) arm.

[Lancey Howard]

If one of those heads eats, does the other head stop being hungry?

[incredulous joe]

Yeah,...it is a little freaky on the surface.

I had to quickly scan for that story, then decide if I even wanted to see it. They are the Hensel twins. They seem pretty normal; chatty, funny, 18 year old girls.

There is a story about them getting their driver’s licenses over at youtube. Their mother is so amazingly casual and laid back. It's also pretty cool that while the girls obviously like attention ~ in the same way that most teens do ~ they have no plans to cash in on their condition.

Kind of amazing!

[Othniel]

Dwarf tossing?

[CedarDave]

No, they have two stomachs.

[MamaB]

I have seen the tv shows about those girls and they are very smart and compete in sports. They recently got their driver's licenses. One for each. They appear to have many friends who do all the teenage stuff.

[CedarDave]

The strangest thing and not understood is how they coordinate their hands when playing the piano or typing on the computer. Each head controls one hand and they don’t communicate verbally when doing this. Yet when taking tests at school each hand writes separately and they give separate answers to questions. Very spooky...

[MamaB]

People do what they have to do no matter what it is. I really enjoy watching the shows about them. Makes most problems kind of small.

[Cementjungle]

That would make all of her 15 year old class-mates about five feet nine inches tall and some would be close to six feet if that picture is real. hrmmmm

She likes to hang out with the girls' basketball team? They purposely picked the tallest girls in the school for this photo?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

1’ 11”, 11 pounds...

I could believe it except for that photo with the classmates. If she’s just under 2 feet tall, they would have to be giants.

[MeekOneGOP]

Lil Lady ! :^D

[varon]

High diving: 14 summersaults with 12 twists? Difficulty factor: 135

Better hope there aren't any large eagles or hawks in the vicinity before she goes tumbling through the air..............