NATALIA PALLANTE: I just told her like, "Yeah, you were born different. That’s just who you are." And she owns it.
RYAN PALLANTE: In her case like, we don’t put any fear into her or like explain what progeria is or even say
the word 'progeria'. We just treat her like a normal 10-year-old. Just try to give her the best life.
NATALIA PALLANTE: She sees herself as being different. There’s days when she goes, “I wish I had hair,
I wish I looked like everybody else.”
But then she goes and says, “Who needs hair, anyways? I have a bunch of wigs.”
LADY: You can’t tell him? ADALIA ROSE: No. You tell him.
LADY: What do you want me to tell him? ADALIA ROSE: I don’t want to...
LADY: Whisper it, whisper it.
LADY: She said, she thinks you are cute. INTERVIEWER: Yeah? I think you are cute as well.
ADALIA ROSE: That was awkward. LADY: That was awkward.
NATALIA PALLANTE: It can be hard some days, especially at night.
NATALIA PALLANTE: When everybody goes to sleep and you know, I am just thinking about the day.
Just thankful for another day, I guess.
NATALIA PALLANTE: Adalia has a rare aging disorder called progeria.
NATALIA PALLANTE: Everybody makes progerin - it’s what makes you age.
NATALIA PALLANTE: And she just makes a lot of it. So that’s what makes her age faster.
RYAN PALLANTE: We don’t talk about life expectancy or any possibility of this could happen or that could happen
to her. I mean, we just live day by day.
NATALIA PALLANTE: I mean anything could happen to anyone, right?
RYAN PALLANTE: Exactly, yeah.
NATALIA PALLANTE: Well, in the beginning when we first started her Facebook, it was just for you know, giggles.
RYAN PALLANTE: It was surprising how fast it grew.
NATALIA PALLANTE: She has like 14 million people on her Facebook and all her subscribers on Youtube.
RYAN PALLANTE: I definitely think it’s fair to describe Adalia as a diva.
NATALIA PALLANTE: People have been asking is about Adalia’s eye. So the story about that is that...
NATALIA PALLANTE: Stop. She is very self-conscious about it.
So surfer's eye is basically like, scar tissue forming on...
RYAN PALLANTE: I, basically, yeah I am her puppet.
RYAN PALLANTE: Having a social media superstar 11-year-old, it’s crazy especially when we are out in public,
you know, a lot of people recognize her.
NATALIA PALLANTE: They say good things to her all the time, love all her videos. There’s constant comments of
how she’s inspirational and how she doesn’t let anything stop her.
RYAN PALLANTE: Everytime she hears those things, it makes her really happy.
INTERVIEWER: How do you look?
INTERVIEWER: Adalia do you think it’s fair to say that you are like a little bit of a diva?
NATALIA PALLANTE: My favorite thing about being her mom is watching her grow and like seeing just how
different she is from everyone.
RYAN PALLANTE: Just seeing how she takes on everyday and just learning from her as well.
NATALIA PALLANTE: I can describe Adalia as a wild one. RYAN PALLANTE: Yeah, stubborn, determined.
NATALIA PALLANTE: Driven. RYAN PALLANTE: Courageous, crazy.