Posted on 09/13/2012 9:59:47 PM PDT by rawhide
She made her national debut on Maury in 2009, and a YouTube clip grabbed from the show titled Most Ugly Woman in the World has garnered almost 5 million hits.
It probably doesnt help that CBS, the New York Daily News, the Telegraph, and even the German Der Spiegel all equally sensationalized her as the girl who must eat every 15 minutes to survive or doctors baffled by worlds thinnest woman.
At 23, doctors think Lizzie Velasquez has a form of the rare neonatal progeroid syndrome, which accelerates her aging and makes it almost impossible to gain weight. Blind in one eye, indeed, she does have to eat between 5,000 and 8,000 calories a day, and has never been more than 62 pounds, according to reports.
And born at just 2lbs and 10 oz, doctors say its a miracle she even survived. According to her mother, the doctors also warned it was possible that Velasquez would never walk, would never be able to eat on her own, and even encouraged the mother to reconsider having any more children. But, to everyones astonishment, Velasquez grew, healthy brothers and sisters were born, and her parents never treated her any differently than the others.
But she realized how different she was when she entered school. She recalled: I was called skinny bones, that was a really big one grandma, because a lot of people told me I looked really old. Um, pork chop legs?
Someone emailed her: Hi Lizzie, I was just looking at your picture and you are very ugly. How are you a cheerleader?
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You just knew that pic was coming
why do we need to make fun of poor people with these awful medical conditions?...its bad enough that we live in a Lookism world, but now we go after the disabled?....
I dunno, Hillary is making me want to get a face lift, I don’t ever want to end up looking like that.
Yeah. Wow! Nice... Whew!
Not trying to be mean, but Ive never noticed that before. That picture really accentuates it.
Nah, instead of waxing, she just rips the barbecue sauce off after it cools and dries up.
Some FReepers use Catherine Zeta Jones to "unsee" that which can't be "unseen".
Thank Gawd. I thought all of hell had landed on my iris...
that picture reminds me instantly of the Grinch...not the cartoon, but the movie with Johnny Depp....incredible likeness...high eyebrows, snarling face...
She’s cuter than the Bitch of State!
It works for me!!!
Hey, where’d you get that picture of the girl I dumped?
Thank you!!!
She has a congenital illness.
LOL- what is she eating? Dog Ribs?
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