Gabby Williams, an 8-year-old who still appears to be an infant. Two others are known to have similar conditions.
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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Madonna and Cher will kidnap her then drink her blood.
How very sad.
There is another rare condition and opposite called Progeria, where kids AGE RAPIDLY.
Her face does not really look like the face of a infant, though. It’s obvious there is some maturity going on.
There is another syndrome where the individual ages at an exceedingly fast rate, so that the people look like old men and women at four years of age.
Weird stuff.
It is sad....
Michelle Pfeiffer?
Mental retardation, dwarfism, the 40 y.o. Australian boy is blind and looks miserable - high price to pay for eternal youth.
The x-ray of her head looks very abnormal.
Sure does,Rosemary’s Baby
LMAO
I thought about it once and if you had a condition where you stopped aging at 25, or something - for real, you’d better know how to keep your mouth shut.
If you want to live long and prosper, drink tranya.
wAS THE ALIEN PLAYED BY Opie’s younger brother?
How many infants have teeth?
...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.
I'm sure she needs daily care but, that would assume she has no motor skills at all?
“never ages” is hyperbole and meant to grab attention
She is aging, she is just not growing normally
Eggactly...
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