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31 sie 2015 · Lizzie Velasquez was born in Austin, Texas, with neonatal progeroid syndrome, a rare genetic disease that affects her heart, eyes and bones, and prevents her from gaining weight. Bullying...
She was born with an extremely rare congenital disease called Marfanoid–progeroid–lipodystrophy syndrome that, among other symptoms, prevents her from accumulating body fat and gaining weight. Her conditions resulted in bullying during her childhood.
8 lis 2013 · Lizzie is just four stone and has almost zero per cent body fat but her appearance is due to a genetic condition which means she cannot put on weight.
8 paź 2021 · A motivational speaker with a very rare condition that affects her physical appearance has opened up about how being dubbed "the world's ugliest woman" at 17 helped to redefine her life. Lizzie Velasquez was born with Marfanoid-progeroid-lipodystrophy syndrome, which prevents her from gaining weight, affects her facial structure, and has…
Born in Austin, Texas, Lizzie Velasquez was diagnosed with a rare condition, neonatal progeroid syndrome, which prevented her from gaining weight and affected her eyes, bones, and heart. Lizzie didn’t realize she was different in any way from anyone else since her parents never treated her any differently.
28 wrz 2015 · Velasquez's condition, named Velasquez's syndrome because of it rarity, has made her body rail thin. She weighs less than 65 pounds, her skin sags and she's blind in one eye.
9 sty 2014 · But for one or two small details Lizzie Velásquez would be a normal, 24-year-old woman. Deemed the “World’s Ugliest Woman” in a YouTube video that went viral when she was in high school, Velásquez has a rare syndrome that makes her look a lot older than she is and prevents her from gaining weight.
