We live in an era where many women and men try their best to look “reed-thin.” The cult of the thin body has become an obsession for some celebrities, leading to anorexia.
But not all the skinniest people in the world deliberately subject their bodies to suffering in order to avoid those hated kilograms. There are those who are forced to live with a severe illness that makes them look like a concentration camp victim.
We present you with a brief history and photos of the thinnest people on Earth.
Top 5 Skinniest Women
5. Ioana Spangenberg - weight 38 kg
The Romanian model insists that her skinny body is a gift from nature and not the result of starvation. In most interviews, she has denied rumors that her appearance is due to food restrictions. She even said that she tries to gain weight by eating high-calorie foods such as kebabs and snacking on pizza and chips.
Ioana's waist is only 20 inches, which earned her the nickname "the hourglass figure." However, she is still a long way from Kathy Jung, the so-called "corset queen." The 81-year-old woman's waist is 15 inches. She first wore a corset during her wedding in 1959 and has worn it ever since. In fact, Kathy wore a corset 24 hours a day.
The exact reason for Ioana's thinness is unknown, but some health experts attribute it to her fast metabolism.
4. Elizabeth Velasquez - weight 29 kg
Born on March 13, 1989, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Velasquez is currently considered the ugliest woman in the world. But it's not the fault of her extreme diets, but of the extremely rare Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch syndrome. Only three people on the planet suffer from it, and Lizzie is one of them. This condition also causes premature aging - just like progeria. Now the girl looks older than her age.
To survive, Lizzie must eat every fifteen minutes. So she consumes between 5,000 and 8,000 calories a day. Despite her painful condition, Lizzie is a well-known motivational speaker and the author of an autobiography, The Story of the Ugliest Woman in the World Who Became the Happiest.
3. Valeria Levitina - weight 25 kg
Until 2014, Valeria was officially known as the thinnest woman in the world. The Monaco resident weighed just 25 kilograms, and one can only wonder how she didn’t blow away in the wind. She suffered from anorexia, and all her desperate efforts to regain the lost weight were useless. Anorexia is a very insidious condition that does not have a single cause. Most experts believe that it is caused by a combination of psychological, environmental and biological factors that lead to a destructive cycle of behavior.
Valeria Levitina is an inspiration for young girls who want to learn from the mistakes of others. She traveled around the world to warn girls about the dangers of extreme dieting. And she hoped to one day recover to fulfill her dream of becoming a mother. However, in 2013, Valeria died.
2. Natalia Zhultaeva - 21 kg
In 2014, the title of the thinnest woman in the world (of those currently living) went to a Russian woman, a resident of the village of Forshtadt near Verkhneuralsk. After breaking up with her boyfriend, Natalia, from a beautiful, moderately plump 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, Zhultaeva's weight reached a life-threatening 21 kg. That's the weight of an ordinary six-year-old child.
Her story gained nationwide fame after Natalia and her mother took part in the popular program “Let Them Talk” 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 Natalia was on the mend.
1. Kristina Koryagina - 17 kg
26-year-old Kristina's eating problems began in childhood. And the results are obvious. 17 kilograms - that's how much the thinnest person in the world weighs. Or rather, weighed. Psychotherapist Jan Goland took on the task of saving the girl from the terrible consequences of nervous anorexia. He worked with his special patient for free.
Thanks to his efforts, Kristina was able to believe in herself, started eating right, and gained one kilogram. For people with an eating disorder, such a result is already a huge leap forward. Now Koryagina has big plans for the future, she intends to enroll in graduate school and defend her PhD dissertation. However, for now she is the thinnest woman not only in Russia, but also in the world.
Top 5 Skinniest Men
5. Tom Staniford - weight 65 kg
The Briton, born on July 1, 1989, is one of eight people in the world who suffer from MDP syndrome. He has no subcutaneous fat and cannot gain weight. The cause of this rare condition remains a mystery to doctors.
However, this syndrome did not manage to ruin Tom's life. He leads a completely normal life - both professionally and personally. In 2011, he even became the world champion in cycling among Paralympians.
4. Christian Bale - 55 kg
"Is this really the thinnest man in the world?" a reader might exclaim indignantly after looking at a photo of a healthy Hollywood hunk. But take a look at him in the film "The Machinist". For the role of a man who doesn't sleep for a year, one of the most handsome actors in the world lost 30 kg. And with a height of 186 cm, he weighed 55 kilograms, resembling a walking skeleton. But would you be able to make such sacrifices for the sake of art?
3. Jeremy Gillitzer - weight 30 kg
Jeremy was once a modeling star with a stunning figure and great biceps. But he was unhappy with his weight and decided to lose weight. Usually, people are happy when they get rid of a few extra pounds. This was not enough for Jeremy. He took laxatives to become even thinner, although he already resembled a mummy. Gillitzer struggled with anorexia and bulimia for almost 25 years.
Eventually, his body was so emaciated that he could barely stand. Jeremy Gillitzer, who had earned the dubious title of "the thinnest guy in the world" (if you count normal-sized people), died in June 2010 from complications related to an eating disorder.
2. Gul Mohammed - weight 17 kg
In 1957, a very ordinary baby was born in the Indian city of Delhi. It is unlikely that his parents knew the term "pituitary dwarfism", which is what the condition Gul Mohammed suffered from sounded like. It is rarely diagnosed before the age of three.
Gul's peers grew, but 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 died due to constant respiratory viral diseases.
1. Chandra Bahadur Dangi - weight 12 kg
In 2015, the shortest man in history, whose height was 54.6 centimeters and weight was 12 kilograms, died. During his life, Nepalese citizen Chandra Bahadur Dangi suffered from congenital dwarfism, but he led a normal life and earned a living by selling jute hats.
Thanks to his title, the man was able to fulfill his dream of visiting other countries, and at the same time popularized his native village throughout the world.
It is interesting that both normal parents can have dwarf children, and dwarfs can have children of normal height. It all depends on the cause of dwarfism.
The thinnest person according to the Guinness Book of Records
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the person with the lowest weight in the history of mankind is Lucia Zarate. This American of Mexican descent was born in the 19th century, and at the age of 17, she weighed only 2.1 kg. For comparison: the fattest person in history weighed 635 kg.
At the age of 12, Lucia moved with her family to the United States, where she performed as a living curiosity in fairground booths and circuses. Despite her congenital dwarfism, Lucia was a mentally developed girl, speaking English and Spanish.
Her finest hour came in Philadelphia, at the Centennial Exposition (celebrating America's 100th anniversary). From that moment on, the girl began to enjoy great popularity, because she was slightly larger than a doll.
After some time, Lucia went to Europe with her family. On February 26, 1881, she performed in Great Britain before Queen Victoria. She continued to travel around 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 that became stuck in the snowy Sierra Nevada Mountains.
It must be said that the tiny artist had a special diet, but the food ran out and she had to eat the canned food that was on the train. Either because of hypothermia (at night the temperature in the mountains dropped to minus 20 degrees), or because of poisoning from the canned food, but Lucia fell ill. And she died on January 15, 1890, at the age of 26.
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