Lizzie Velasquez Must Eat Every 15 Minutes Or She’ll Die
On her website, 21-year-old Lizzie Velasquez writes that she wants readers to know she is “a normal girl.”
“I love to laugh, spend time with my friends and family and just enjoy life,” she writes . “Please don’t feel like you have to treat me different just because I look different.”
Velasquez has a rare condition that prevents her from gaining weight. Even though she consumes 60 small meals equaling 5,000 to 8,000 calories each day, she has zero percent body fat and weighs just 56 pounds. She’s 5 feet, 2 inches tall.
Born four weeks premature and weighing just 2 pounds, 10 ounces, doctors wonder how she could have survived, noting that there was minimal amniotic fluid protecting her in the womb, reports the Daily Telegraph .
Doctors speculated that she might have the genetic disorder De Barsy syndrome. But with no learning disabilities, they ruled that condition out.
June 29, 2010 - 10:23 PM
wowo that is so sad
June 30, 2010 - 5:07 AM
The bitch dead already!!! At least we can save cutting down a tree and just flush her down the toilet!
June 30, 2010 - 11:09 AM
What a crazy disorder. I can’t believe that she has made it this far!
June 30, 2010 - 1:54 PM
God bless her.
August 29, 2010 - 9:20 AM
“can save cutting down a tree”
? a tree?
anyway, i like rude jokes, but *sometimes* rude humor doesn’t work. (only if LV wants to joke about disappearing down a toilet, then OK.)
the physical distortions caused by medical condition is “shocking”. interesting thing is that you can see she’d be pretty cute without that condition.
biomedical continues to be “hot”. maybe LV will become interested in that.