An Indian woman has shrunk to just TWO FEET in ten years due to a rare congenital disease that has left her limbs ‘bendy’.
Kunti Kumari, 25, is now the average height of a four-month-old baby, with weakened limbs that seem to stretch and bend.
She spends her day lying on a cot, chatting with her mother and staring at the ceiling when she has no company.
Kumari, who lives in a far-off village in Chatra in eastern state Jharkhand, has been bed-ridden for the past eight years.
She is extremely weak and depends on her widowed mother for every need.
Kunti Kumari being examined by a doctor (
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Her mother Tilakwa Devi, 60, who lost her husband 12 years ago, can’t stop weeping seeing her youngest daughter’s condition that she says makes her look like a ‘corpse’.
“She was a normal girl with healthy limbs but when she turned a teenager, her bones started weakening and she struggled to walk.
“She would limp a little but gradually she lost all strength and started shrinking,” said Devi.
Kunti Kumari is now the size of the average four-month old baby (
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“Within eight years of this mysterious disease, she completely lost strength and got bound to bed rest.”
Kunti, whose older siblings –two brothers and one sister – are unaffected, had undergone a surgery in 2007 for treating her left leg that was terribly weak.
But after a month of relief, her condition started deteriorating and she lost strength in all her limbs.
Kumari said: “I was always weak and could never run fast. I was a slow walker and as I grew up, I had to push my left leg.
“This is when my mother took me to a doctor for treatment. The bone specialist operated on my left leg but after a month, I couldn’t move the leg.”