Being different isn’t easy and more often than not, people want to hide themselves from
society because they feel like they can’t fit in.
There are some people however, who embrace their unique features and have become celebrities
because of it, although it’s very unlikely that you’ll ever come across these people
anytime soon.
Here's a couple of people who are one in a million and have embraced their unique lives.
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SUPATRA SUSUPHAN Supatra is a 19-year-old girl from Bangkok
who suffers from a rare condition known as Ambras Syndrome, a condition that creates
excessive hair growth on her face due to a faulty chromosome.
This condition is so rare that it’s been reported to only affect 50 people since the
Middle Ages.
In 2010, Supatra won the Guinness World Record for being the hairiest girl on planet Earth,
showing that the condition had been a part of her life since her early childhood.
At the ceremony for this record, Supatra expressed how she felt like despite her unique condition,
she could still fit in, saying that she doesn’t feel any different to anyone else, and that
she’s got lots of friends at school.
Recently, Supatra found love, and as a result, she’s begun to shave her face, revealing
it to the world for the first time.
CHANDRA BAHADUR DANGI Chandra was a Nepali man who was proven to
be the shortest man in recorded human history, measuring at exactly 54.6cm, or 1 foot and
9 and a half inches.
He was awarded the title of the shortest adult human ever recorded after his height was officially
measured in February 2012, subsequently gaining fame through his inclusion in the Guinness
World Records.
The trend seemed to run in the family, with three of his five brothers being less than
1.22m, or four feet tall as well.
Strangely, it was never known what exactly caused his growth to be so limited, but it
didn’t stop him from becoming a farmer and craftsman in his home village of Reemkholi.
He’s been quoted as stating that he wished to use his newfound fame to popularise Nepal.
In 2012 at the age of 72, Dangi posed for photos with the world’s shortest woman,
Jyoti Amge, and in 2014, met the world’s tallest man, Sultan Kosen at an event in London.
GODFREY BAGUMA Godfrey is a Ugandan man that suffers from
a rare condition known as fibrodysplasia, which affects the growth and placement of
cells and tissues.
As a result, Godfrey has a substantially deformed face, leading him to win the self procliamed
world’s ugliest man competition in 2002.
However, Godfrey’s limitations haven’t stopped him from finding both love and success
in life.
Godfrey has had not one, not two, but three wives, and is a professional cobbler.
He has also ventured into music and has released many hit songs which can all be found on YouTube.
Godfrey is a prime example of someone using their uniqueness for positivity; gaining fame
and constantly having a positive outlook on life despite his adversity.
MACI CURRIN When Maci Currin was in elementary school,
doctors predicted that she would grow to 6 foot 4, an already incredibly rare height
to achieve.
However, her doctors and parents were stunned when Maci shot well above that height by just
the 7th grade.
Now as a high school senior, Maci stands at 6 feet, 10 inches tall, achieving the Guinness
World Record for having the world’s longest legs as both a teenage girl and an adult female.
Her legs alone measure 4 feet, 5 inches each, making up 60% of her total height!
If you consider the average total height of a female is about 5 feet, 3 inches, it really
puts Maci’s height in perspective.
The giant teen puts her height to good use on the volleyball court, dwarfing the opposition
and spiking unlockable returns.
DE SILVA FAMILY The De Silva family from Brazil, are no strangers
to being special.
Fourteen members of the same family were born with six fingers on each hand and six toes
on each foot thanks to a rare genetic condition called polydactyly.
Fifteen-year-old Joao de Assis da Silva is a football fanatic, sporting the number 10
shirt that was worn by Brazil’s Pele and using his additional appendages to gain a
competitive edge.
He believes having six fingers helped him hold the ball more easily and his bigger than
normal hands allowed him to catch overhead balls that others would miss.
The family are far from fearing discrimination -- grandmother Silvia Santos da Silva says
family members born without the trait feel like the odd ones out.
Her grandson who has five fingers feels excluded from the family, like he’s the freak!
One thing’s for sure, counting to 11 has never been easier.
MATTHIAS SCHLITTE Matthias Schlitte has a normal-sized left
arm, but his right arm, which is 46 centimeters around his forearm is something out of the
ordinary.
When he was 16 years old, he found out that his Popeye right arm could be put to good
use.
He entered an amateur arm-wrestling tournament at a bar back in 2004 and won despite a lack
of any previous practice leading up to the event.
Since then, Matthias has taken arm-wrestling far more seriously, starting an international
and successful career, winning multiple national and international tournaments.
Matthias’ self-described Popeye arm is the result of a genetic defect known as Klippel-Trenaunay
syndrome, a condition that results in substantial hypertrophy for a specific body-part – in
this case, Matthias’ right arm.
He’s used this condition to his advantage, becoming a very successful professional arm
wrestler that shows that people can use their uniqueness to do great things.
SU MOH MOH NAING 23-year-old, Su Moh Moh Naing from Myanmar
claims to have a natural waist of only 13.7 inches.
Not only that, but she also claims that her tiny waist is the result of healthy eating
habits and genetics.
There have been claims for even smaller waists – a woman from the UK claiming to have a
13-inch waist that is recognised by the Guinness World Records, although she admits that she
consistently wears corsets in order to achieve this figure.
Su on the other hand, claims that her figure is completely natural, going against claims
of photo editing or even of insane procedures like the removal of ribs.
Su has even made a proposal to the Guinness World Records, claiming that she has the smallest
waist without surgery.
While Guinness hasn’t yet certified the claim, Su has gone on to use her unique body
proportions to promote healthy eating and exercise, as well as body positivity in general.
ZION CLARK 22-year-old Zion Clark from Ohio who wants
to be the best freestyle wrestler in the world.
The only problem is, Zion doesn’t have any legs.
Clark was born with Caudal Regression Syndrome, a rare congenital disorder that affects the
foetal development of the lower spine, occurring at a rate of approximately one per 60,000
live births.
Zion has since become famous for his no excuses ideology, telling Time Reporter that “I
don’t believe in excuses–there’s no excuse to do anything good or bad, I believe
we do what we want to do, and instead of making excuses for it, I focus on correcting the
bad decisions and building upon the good ones.”
Despite Zion’s condition, he trains twice a day, 6 days a week, and has been gradually
improving his national ranking, hoping to one day, make it to the Olympics.
REN KEYU This fourteen-year-old boy from Leshan in
the Sichuan Province of China, is the current record holder for the tallest male teenager
with a height of 221.03 cm, or 7 feet and 3 inches.
By the time Ren was in kindergarten, he was already 150cm, causing many to think he was
a middle-schooler and in the wrong classroom.
Strangely, multiple medical examinations confirmed that Ren did not have a condition such as
gigantism; his growth hormone, pituitary gland, and other test results were completely normal
and healthy.
In order for Ren’s development to continue naturally and healthily, most of his furniture
in his home had to be tailor made and designed specifically for him, with chairs and tables
able to accommodate his massive size.
His unique height does offer him some advantages however.
Ren can very easily clean the tall windows in his class and wipe the top of the chalkboard,
but he’s gotta watch his head on the doorways.
VICTORIA WRIGHT Victoria Wright is a campaigner for disability
and face equality from London.
She also suffers from her own facial disorder known as cherubism, which causes prominence
in the lower portion of the face.
The condition is incredibly rare, with only 200 cases ever being reported by medical journals.
She first noticed something was different around the age of four.
The chubby cheeks and prominent jaw was cute as a baby, but when the condition didn’t
regress after puberty and began to affect her eyesight, Victoria got the rare diagnosis
she was after.
Despite harassment due to her condition, Victoria has consistently tackled the issue of discrimination
with a humorous and optimistic approach.
In the face of this adversity, Victoria is confident in her appearance, rejecting surgery
and accepting her uniqueness.
In both personality and the condition she suffers from, Victoria really is one in a
million.