The thinnest people on the planet

How often do we hear the phrase: "Beauty is a terrible power!" Sometimes you can agree with her, and 100% more. When the thinnest person in the world appears before your eyes, even in the photo, and you involuntarily begin to worry about his life.

Why people are losing so much weight and how to avoid it, we will tell in this article, as well as introduce you in absentia to the worst citizens of the planet.

Rating of the scariest weight loss stories

1st place: Valeria Levitina - thinness in pursuit of a slim figure

With a height of 172 cm, her weight is only 25 kg, as a six-year-old girl. The worst thing is that the woman herself brought herself to what is happening to her now.

The heroine's story began in 1989, when she and her parents left Moscow and moved to the United States. The young lady was so beautiful that in 1994 she easily won a beauty contest, she got the title of "Miss Chicago". At that moment, the girl did not know that this was the beginning of the end.

Since the women in Valeria's family had problems with being overweight, the girl from childhood got the habit of regularly weighing herself, and her mother taught her from early childhood, worrying if her baby was too dense. After winning a beauty contest, Levitina decided to become a model and began to desperately lose weight. Within a short time, the 19-year-old beauty lost a lot of weight, but did not stop there. At 24, her weight was 38 kilograms.

Now the thinnest woman in the world lives in Monaco, thanks to her she can somehow exist. Levitina practically does not feel the taste of food, and the shopping trip turns into a real test. An eating disorder has plagued the woman for twenty years, and only recently has she managed to get rid of it. Weight gain is still a dream.

2nd place: Lizzie Velazquez - the disease caused thinness

The story of this girl was in second place in the ranking. A complex disease led the girl to excessive slimness.

She was born in 1989 with a rare diagnosis that sounds like neonatal progeroid syndrome - the inability of the body to accumulate fat masses. The girl's weight today is 26 kilograms.

Lizzie's birth weight was 1.2 kg, and for 24 years she never managed to exceed the bar of 27 kg. To have a chance to survive, a girl needs to eat every 10-15 minutes and consume 5000-8000 calories a day.

Despite her life-threatening illness, she never lost heart, took up educational activities, published her own books and became the organizer of about two hundred performances.

3rd place: Lucia Zarate - thin and petite

This unique girl lived in Mexico in the XX century and during her lifetime got into the Guinness Book of Records. Lucia Zarate suffered from lilliputia, scientifically the diagnosis sounds like pituitary dwarfism.

At the age of 7, she stopped growing, at that time her height was 43 centimeters, and her weight was 2.3 kg. When the girl sat and did not move, she was mistaken for a doll. However, even at that time there were a fortune who were smart about her uniqueness. At the age of 12, Lucia was brought to the USA for an exhibition, and later she was invited to the circus.

She had to constantly rehearse acrobatic stunts, but the result was not long in coming, and soon the petite girl was earning $ 20 an hour - this was unheard of wealth. Over time, she was able to "gain weight" a little and her weight increased to 5.9 kg. Thanks to physical disabilities, Lucia secured a rich future for herself, and her fortune would continue to grow if it were not for a terrible tragedy: the train got stuck in the mountains, among the people who died from hypothermia was a miniature girl.

4th place: the history of anorexia Isabelle Caro

Mexican Isabel Caro is also one of the thinnest people in the world. The girl was born in September 1982. Her weight was 28 kg with a height of 163 cm due to severe anorexia nervosa.

The cause of the disease was the girl's own mother, who suffered from her husband's lack of attention and was afraid that someday her daughter would grow up and leave her too. The mother forbade the baby to communicate with peers and go out, believing that the lack of fresh air would slow down growth. Over time, Isabelle herself refused to communicate with the world and began to limit herself in food, so as not to grow and please her mother.

Over time, the adult Karo realized the mistakes of her upbringing, which led to dire consequences, and wrote an autobiographical book "The Little Girl Who Didn't Want to Get Fat." The girl drew public attention to the dangerous consequences of refusing to eat by showing her body.

Isabelle in November 2010, spent the last years of her life in the hospital with a diagnosis of ARVI. After the death of her daughter, the mother committed suicide.

5th place: Ioana Spangenberg - Miss Slimmest Waist

Behind the scenes, a girl weighing 39 kg is called an hourglass, thanks to her waist - 50 cm.

The thinnest model has never been on a diet, did not limit herself in food, but the size of her stomach does not allow her to eat more than the individual norm at a time. The reason for the extreme thinness is unknown, the girl denies that she has anorexia. In 2006, she got married and is now working as a fashion model - the designers, apparently, are delighted with the "living mannequin".

6th place: The thinnest man

Sometimes men strive for beauty at any cost. Jeremy Gillitzer, who died in 2010 at the age of 38 after a 25-year struggle with anorexia, was a striking example of excessive thinness for the sake of a career. Before his death, he weighed 30 kg.

For the first time, the boy heard the terrible diagnosis at the age of 12, and at 14 he swallowed a laxative so that he lost more than one kilogram of weight at a time. For several years the young man wandered around the clinics, and by the age of 20 he managed to gain kilograms, he began to play sports and work as a model.

But unexpected happiness quickly disappeared, in 2004 Jeremy broke up with his boyfriend, got into two car accidents, survived his mother's illness. Depression pushed Jeremy to take up the old, but this time the treatment did not help - the man died a few years later.

Anorexia - no!

A small ranking of the thinnest people in the world introduced you to. Perhaps for someone they will become instructive, and before giving up food, people will think about the consequences. Not all the heroes of our stories became the perpetrators of their tragedies, many of them lost excessive weight due to their health condition. But if a person is healthy, you should not sacrifice your weight for the sake of imaginary beauty, it is important to remember that everything is good in moderation, including "thin beauty".

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