We live in an era when many women and men are trying their best to look "thin like a reed." The lean body cult has become an obsession for some celebrities, leading to anorexia.
But not all the worst people in the world intentionally subject their bodies to suffering in order to avoid the hated kilos. There are those who are forced to live with a serious illness that makes them look like a victim of a concentration camp.
We present you a brief history and photos of the worst people on Earth.
The thinnest women in the world
5. Ioana Spangenberg - weight 38 kg
The Romanian model assures that her lean body is a natural gift, not the result of starvation. In most interviews, she disputed rumors that her appearance was caused by food restrictions. She even said that she was trying to gain weight by leaning on high-calorie foods, such as kebabs, and was still snacking on pizza and chips.
The waist of Ioana is only 50.8 cm in volume, thanks to which she received the nickname "man-hourglass." However, she is still far from Katie Jung, recognized as the “queen of the corset”. The waist volume of this 81-year-old woman is 38.1 centimeters. She first wore a corset during her wedding in 1959 and has since worn it constantly. In fact, Katie was dressed in a corset 24 hours a day.
The exact cause of Joana’s thinness is unknown, but some health experts attribute this to a rapid metabolism.
4. Elizabeth Velazquez - weight 29 kg
Born March 13, 1989, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Velazquez is currently considered the most ugly woman in the world. But this is not the fault of exhausting diets, but of the extremely rare Wiedemann syndrome - Rautenstrauch. They suffer only three people on the planet, and Lizzy is one of them. This condition also causes premature aging - just like progeria. Now the girl looks older than her age.
To live, Lizzy must eat every fifteen minutes. Therefore, it consumes from 5000 to 8000 calories per day. Despite such a painful condition, Lizzy is a well-known motivational speaker and author of the autobiography book “The Story of the Most Ugly Woman in the World Who Has Become the Happiest”.
3. Valery Levitin - weight 25 kg
Until 2014, Valeria was officially known as the thinnest woman in the world. A resident of Monaco weighed only 25 kilograms, and it remains only to be surprised how she was not blown away by the wind. She suffered from anorexia, and all her desperate efforts to regain her lost weight were futile. Anorexia is a very insidious condition that does not have a single reason. Most experts believe that it is due to a combination of psychological, environmental and biological factors that lead to a destructive cycle of behavior.
Valeria Levitina is a source of inspiration for young girls who want to learn from the mistakes of others. She traveled to different parts of the world to warn girls about the dangers of an extreme diet. And she hoped to someday get better in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a mother. However, in 2013, Valeria died.
2. Natalya Zhultaeva - 21 kg
In 2014, the title of the worst woman in the world (of the living ones) went to the Russian woman, a resident of the village of Forstadt near Verkhneuralsk. After breaking up with the guy, Natalia from a beautiful, moderately well-fed girl, gradually began to turn into walking “skin and bones”. She ate very little and only when her family insisted on it.
As a result, Zhultayeva's weight reached a life-threatening mark of 21 kg. The average six-year-old weighs so much.
Her story gained all-Russian fame after Natalya and her mother took part in the popular “Let them Talk” program in December 2014.
Fortunately, thanks to the efforts of doctors and the care of her mother, the girl was able to overcome her condition. In 2015, information appeared that Natalya was recovering.
1. Kristina Koryagina - 17 kg
Food problems began with 26-year-old Christina in her childhood. And the result is obvious. 17 kilograms - that’s how much the worst person in the world weighs. More precisely, weighed. To save the girl from the terrible consequences of anorexia nervosa took the therapist Jan Goland. He worked with his special patient for free.
Thanks to his efforts, Christina was able to believe in herself, began to eat right, and recovered by one kilogram. For people with an eating disorder, this result is already a huge leap forward. Now Koryagina has big plans for the future, she intends to enter graduate school and defend her thesis. However, so far she is the thinnest woman not only in Russia, but also in the world.
The worst men in the world
5. Tom Staniford - weight 65 kg
The Briton, born July 1, 1989, is one of eight people in the world who suffer from MDP syndrome. He has no subcutaneous fat and is unable to gain weight. The reason for this rare condition is still a mystery to doctors.
However, this syndrome failed to break Tom's life. He leads a perfectly normal life - both professional and personal. In 2011, he even became the Paralympic Cycling World Champion.
4. Christian Bale - 55 kg
“But is this the worst person in the world?” - the reader may exclaim indignantly, looking at the photo of the health-inspiring Hollywood handsome. And you look at him in the movie "The Engineer". For the role of a man who does not sleep for a year, one of the most beautiful actors in the world threw off 30 kg. And with a height of 186 cm, it began to weigh 55 kilograms, resembling a walking skeleton. Would you be able to make such sacrifices for the sake of art?
3. Jeremy Gillitzer - weight 30 kg
Once upon a time, Jeremy was a star in the modeling business, with stunning shapes and great biceps. But he was dissatisfied with his weight and decided to lose weight. Usually people are happy when they get rid of a couple of extra pounds. Jeremy was not enough. He took laxatives to become even thinner, although he looked like a mummy. Gillitzer struggled with anorexia and bulimia for almost 25 years.
As a result, his body was so empty that the man could hardly stand. Jeremy Gillitzzer, who won the dubious title of “the worst guy in the world” (if you take people of normal height), died in June 2010 from complications associated with an eating disorder.
2. Gul Mohammed - weight 17 kg
In 1957, the most ordinary baby was born in the Indian city of Delhi. It is unlikely that his parents knew such a term as “pituitary dwarfism” (dwarfism), and that is exactly what the condition that Gul Mohammed suffered from sounds like. It is rarely diagnosed until the age of three.
Peers Gulya grew, and the boy himself grew very slowly. By adulthood, his height was only 57 centimeters, which allowed him to get into the Guinness Book of Records, as the smallest person in the world. At the age of 40, Mohammed passed away due to persistent respiratory viral diseases.
1. Chandra Bahadur Dangi - weight 12 kg
In 2015, the shortest man in history died, whose growth was 54.6 centimeters and weight - 12 kilograms. During his life, a citizen of Nepal, Chandra Bahadur Dangi suffered from congenital midgets, but led a normal lifestyle and made a living selling jute hats.
Thanks to his title, the man was able to fulfill his dream - to visit other countries, and at the same time popularized his native village all over the world.
It is curious that just like ordinary parents dwarf children can be born, so dwarfs can have children with normal growth. It all depends on the cause of dwarfism.
The worst man in the world in the history of mankind
If you believe the Guinness Book of Records, then the person with the smallest weight for the entire existence of mankind is Lucia Zarate. This American from Mexico was born in the 19th century, and at the age of 17 she weighed only 2.1 kg. For comparison: the fattest man in history weighed 635 kg.
At the age of 12, Lucia moved with her family to the United States, where she acted as a living curiosity in fair booths and circuses. Despite the innate dwarfism, Lucia was a mentally developed girl, she spoke English and Spanish.
Her finest hour came in Philadelphia, at the Centennial Exposition (celebration of America's 100th anniversary). From this moment, the girl began to enjoy great popularity, because in size she was a little larger than a doll.
After some time, Lucia went to Europe with her family. On February 26, 1881, she performed in the UK before Queen Victoria. She continued to travel throughout Europe and the United States, mainly along the East Coast, until 1890.
On January 15, 1890, during the Great Snow Blockade, Lucia was on a train bound for San Francisco and stuck in the snowy mountains of the Sierra Nevada.
I must say that the tiny artist had a special diet, however, the products ran out, and she had to eat canned goods that were on the train. Either because of hypothermia (at night in the mountains the temperature dropped to minus 20 degrees), or because of poisoning by canned food, but Lucia fell ill. And she died on January 15, 1890, at the age of 26.
