This Girl has to eat every 15 Minutes!!!

 This Girl has to eat every 15 Minutes!!!

Yes it’s no joke. Lizzie Velasquez, 21 years old is from Texas. She is a communications student, and she weighs just 25.4 kg!! And almost 0% body fat! Oh yeah she’s not sick of anorexia, depression or whatever disease that affects the appetite.

A meal every 15 minutes? Hmm bout 60 in a day. But did I mention her meals consist between 5,000 and 8,000 calories daily. If you’re wondering how much that be in food well it’s about 37-59 hard boiled eggs or about 29-46cups (250 g) of rice in a day. If you want to know how much effort it would need to burn that much well it’s about 10-16 hours of jogging at 5mph/active swimming. Imagine taking all of that in one day haha. And if you’ll try and find her classification on charts about Body Mass Index, uhhhm she’s not even included because her weight is supposedly impossible.

Lizzie has a normal brother and sister, but she doesn’t really mind what people around her say because her brother and sister love her so much and always look out after her.

She was born with minimal amniotic fluid protecting her in her mom’s womb. Her sickness was undiagnosed for the longest time, until 2 other people were discovered to have the same condition, and that makes her 1 of 3. But doctors have linked her illness to another mysterious sickness which is called Neonatal Progeroid Syndrome, or simply progeria.

She even had a statement once:

 “I weigh myself regularly and if I gain even one pound I get really excited. I eat every 15-20 minutes to keep my energy levels up. I eat small portions of crisps, sweets, chocolate, pizza, chicken, cake, doughnuts, ice cream, noodles and pop tarts all day long, so I get pretty upset when people accuse me of being anorexic. When I meet new people I have to say: ‘Hi, I’m Lizzie and I have this rare syndrome, I am NOT anorexic’.”

Lizzie’s internal organs, skeletal structure, and brain development were all normal. In the picture one could that her right eye is opaque, she is blind from this eye. Before she was 4, her eyes were normal but then her right eye began to become cloudy and eventually she became blind at this eye.

Another thing, people with progeria live up to only 15 years or less. Because of the very rapid development of their body, a year for a normal person is equivalent to 10 years if you have the disease.