Being overweight is a real disaster of our time. Excess kilograms cause significant harm to our health. However, there is a reverse trend: people, in pursuit of a beautiful figure, exhaust themselves with diets and exercise to an absolutely terrible state and their low weight becomes a threat to life.
For some people, the desire to lose weight becomes a real obsession (this applies more to the fair half of humanity). This desire can turn into a mental disorder, which doctors call anorexia nervosa or mental illness. In this case, the desire to lose weight turns into a pathological fear of excess weight. Most often, this disease is inherent in young women.
However, excessively low body weight can be associated with various diseases. Usually these are diseases of the endocrine system that lead to metabolic disorders. It should be remembered that excessively low weight is a serious danger to human health and his life. We have compiled a list for you. the worst people in the world.
1. Lucia Zarate
The worst person ever
The worst personwho has ever lived in the world is officially recognized by Lucia Zarate. This woman was born in Mexico in 1863. Her thinness was associated with a serious pituitary disease (it is this gland that regulates human growth).
At seventeen, the girl's height was only 43 centimeters, and she weighed 2.3 kilograms. When Lucia sat motionless for a long time, many around her mistook her for a doll. It’s impossible to say that the girl’s life was full of suffering. She was able to take advantage of her uniqueness and earn money on this. Lucia got a job at the circus and enjoyed great success with the public. She could earn up to twenty dollars a day - very serious money for that time.
True, circus numbers were given to her with great difficulty and training took a lot of time. Over time, her weight reached 5.9 kilograms, but the waist volume remained only 16 centimeters.
The girl died in an accident: the train she was riding on was stuck in the mountains, most of the passengers, including she, died from hypothermia.
It is unlikely that anyone will be able to break this record because Zarate’s weight was the result of her unique height, which in turn was the result of a serious illness.
2. Lizzy Velazquez
The skinniest person these days
Lizzy Velazquez is officially considered the worst person to date, she is a native of the US state of Texas. This fact is officially recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. The girl's height is 157 centimeters, and her weight is only 28 kilograms. The appearance of the girl is simply terrifying.
The most interesting and saddest thing in this story is that the reason for such a girl’s thinness is completely incomprehensible. She eats well, is not fond of any diets. Velazquez says he tries to eat three times a day, while he prefers high-calorie foods. However, she cannot recover even one kilogram.
Most likely, in this case we are dealing with a metabolic disorder, but doctors cannot say what it is connected with.
Lizzy has siblings, but they have no such problems.
In the cases listed above, we dealt with diseases that caused unnatural thinness. However, there are cases when too low weight is the result of diets and self-restriction in nutrition. Such behavior can hardly be called rational or rational; rather, it can be called a specific mental disorder, which can lead to very tragic and sad consequences.
3. Valery Levitin
Deadly beauty
One of the most skinny women in the world is Valeria Levitin, a native of Moscow, who now lives in the United States. In 1989, the girl left with her parents in the United States. She had a very attractive appearance and became the winner of the Miss Chicago beauty pageant. It was after this that Valeria decided to lose those extra pounds.
Today Valeria resembles the revived Egyptian mummy: its height is 172 centimeters and it weighs only 25 kilograms.
Now Valeria lives in Monaco, due to the high temperature and sunny weather, she feels more or less normal. But even a short walk turns into hell for her. She tried to get better several times, but her digestive system no longer assimilates nutrients. Valeria no longer feels the taste of food.
4. Isabelle Caro
The worst model
One of the skinniest women who work in the modeling business is Isabelle Caro. The girl has been sick with anorexia since she was 13 years old.
Her mother suffered from obvious mental disorders and did not let her daughter out of the house. A little later, the girl herself began to limit herself in food in order to please her mother.
At 28, she weighed 28 kilograms; her height was 163 centimeters. Isabelle clearly understood that she was sick and tried to get rid of her condition. However, she did not succeed and in 2010 she died. And after a short time, her mother committed suicide. Here is such a sad story.
Isabelle actively participated in actions against anorexia.
Ioana Spangenberg is another girl known for her thinness who works in the modeling business. Due to the extremely thin waist, this Romanian model is also called the “living hourglass”.
At the same time, Ioana does not adhere to diets and declares that she does not suffer from anorexia. The girl's weight is only 38 kilograms, and the waist volume is 50 centimeters. At the same time, the girl's height is 167 centimeters. At the mention of Joan, doctors only shrug. It can also be noted that the girl is very successful with designers.
The girl does not limit herself in food, but at the same time she can only eat a little chocolate - she has a very small amount of stomach.
5. Jeremy Gillitzer
Male beauty can also be dangerous
Usually men do not “bother” too much with their appearance and extra pounds cannot spoil their mood. But there are exceptions. Jeremy Gillitzer worked in the modeling business and decided to get rid of extra pounds. A few years ago, he died at the age of 38. Before that, for twenty years, he had unsuccessfully fought against anorexia.
Before his death, he weighed only 30 kilograms. The guy suffered from anorexia from early childhood - at the age of eleven he was diagnosed with this terrible diagnosis. To reduce weight, he took laxatives. Then for many years Jeremy tried to return to normal weight, but he still could not defeat the disease.
There are several more examples of excessive male thinness, but they relate to the rather long past. In 1797, Claudius Ambrozime Seuart was born in France, who, with a height of 160 centimeters, weighed only sixteen kilograms. How it could be is incomprehensible, because even bone tissue usually weighs more. The reason for this thinness remained a mystery to physicians of that time. Their current colleagues believe that the guy had a metabolic disorder. Another “record holder” in the sense of thinness was Hopkin Hopkins, who lived in England in the 18th century. He had atrophied cartilaginous tissue, and at the age of seven he weighed only 8.6 kilograms. He died at the age of seventeen and weighed only six kilograms at that time.
6. Maria and Katie Campbell
Anorexia for two
Another interesting case of painful thinness is the twin sisters Maria and Katie Campbell. In early childhood, they vowed not to become fat, and, unfortunately, fulfilled it.
Now the weight of each of the sisters is approximately 38 kilograms. They suffer from anorexia, while both have a medical background. At the age of thirty, the sisters looked 50 years old.
They tried to treat them, but it did not bring any result. Women believe their lives are already ruined.
The desire for ideal weight is excellent and deserves respect, but the most important thing is not to cross the line and be careful.