Posted on 04/06/2008 8:18:10 PM PDT by blam
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.
She can make a lot of money, just by selling Al Gore her carbon credits.
so, if one doesn't know the answer to a question and writes "I don't know" for the answer, does the other one write "Me neither"? :)
[Unlike so many who are fit and healthy she is happy and has no regrets or complaints!]
Yes, I know that strikes a chord with you.
I would think the ‘ones like her’ are the ones they write about. Sadly there are probably many who are angry at life and what was bestowed upon them and there is some understanding in that.
I think much of their attitude is in how they are raised, what they were taught by their family.
The photo on the right just doesn't look "real". Photoshopped?
Looks as though the girl has been shrunk beyond what is natural and then added to the picture.
“Makes most problems kind of small.”
I watched a couple video clips of these girls. It seems to me that they would need to be informed that they even had any kind of “problem”. That’s what I guess is so amazing about them.
I had never seen conjoined twins of this sort before. The other thing that is very unusual about them is the fact that they seem to be in perfectly good health.
Wikipedia says that their expectation is that they will live normal lives “including getting married and having children”?
India is a poor country. They don’t have enough money to have to diagnose her earlier like at birth.
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