Due to a rare disease, a Cambodian girl was born with wrinkled skin. This is reported by the Daily Mirror. Despite her physique, 10-year-old Bo Rakching looks like an older woman. The reason for this, presumably, was either lipodystrophy, which interferes with the creation of adipose tissue, or Aliber's dermatolysis (Cutis laxa), which reduces the elasticity of the skin. The exact diagnosis is unknown because the girl was never taken to a doctor.
Beau claims to hear insults a lot. “Among all my brothers and sisters, only I look old,” she admits. "They don't call me sister, they call me grandmother." The girl asked her peers not to call names, but they continue to tease her. The girl's relatives and local monks believe that the cause of the disease is bad karma. They advise Bo Rakchin to fight back offenders and cleanse himself of the burden of a past life. The girl herself dreams of plastic surgery that will make her more beautiful. “I want a pretty face because the other kids call me an old lady,” she says.
Earlier it was reported that a US resident was one of the oldest among the prematurely aged as a result of a rare disease of progeria (Hutchinson-Guildford syndrome). Doctors considered Tiffany's case unique as she lived to be 41 years old. The woman weighs only 26 kilograms and is 135 centimeters tall and suffers from tooth loss, hair loss and heart problems.