Friday, May 11, 2012

The World's Official Smallest Woman Is a Living Doll


What you see here is the full height of one Jyoti Amge, of Nagpur, India, who is currently the world's smallest woman in the Guinness Book of World Records. She is currently 18 years old, and stands just one foot, eleven inches in height. She has a condition called "achondroplasia", a genetic mutation which causes extreme dwarfism.

Aside from being doll-sized and having a voice exactly like a Smurf on helium, she's a regular person in every other way. Certainly, as a teen girl, she thrives on the attention now, but she has some unique challenges ahead of her...