Fluffy girl: how was the fate of a woman who is considered the lightest in the world? (5 photos)

There is a category of people who devote their lives and themselves to to get into the Guinness Book of Records. And others do not ask such target, but hit. After all, this is how life itself ordered.





Looking at the photo of this baby, it's hard to believe that this is a real person, not a drawing or a skillful craft. The little one looks like a doll or a fabulous elf who looked into the world of people for a moment.



Meanwhile, Lucia is already an adult girl. She was born in small Mexican town of San Carlos in 1863. By according to eyewitnesses, was tiny, only 20 centimeters. A weighed no more than 230 grams. However, these data are now doubt, since a child with such a weight simply would not have survived. The version according to which it was significantly less than the norm in terms of indicators, and somewhere after a year just stopped growing.

According to surviving data, by the age of 17, it had grown to only 35 centimeters. And she weighed two kilograms. Just think - a man who pulls just a couple of packs of salt! At the same time, parents, brothers and sisters were completely ordinary people.

Thumbelina's career



At that time, people with severe physical deviations did not shine any prospects in terms of career and work for except for popular entertainment shows - freak circuses. Although Lucia Zarate's intellect was completely preserved, the only place where she could feel at home and provide herself with a comfortable existence, just was such a circus.

Parents agreed, especially since the family was balancing on the brink of poverty. And little Lucia began to provide not only for herself, but also help relatives at the age of 12.



As partners, she was picked up by the same undersized named Francis Flynn, with whom they acted out scenes from family life. The audience wanted to believe that little people have love beyond scenes. But this was not so, they were united exclusively by business relationship. Flynn subsequently married another artist, also vertically challenged.

Having discovered a clear similarity between a miniature circus performer and a mythical character, her main number, in which she performed with other dwarfs, the administration called it “Fairy Sisters”.

Misfortune and posthumous glory



Lucia's longtime stage partner Flynn dies age 33 years old. Which, in general, is a normal phenomenon due to the huge the number of deviations in the work of organs and systems that people with such diseases.

And the fairy Lucia, unfortunately, did not live up to 30. Zarate, like other circus performers, spent most of her life on the road, because the circus moved constantly. That winter day in 1890 was no different from others. The troupe rode through the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. A blizzard broke out, the train got stuck. And there were coal reserves not enough for long periods of downtime. Soon the temperature in the cars fell heavily.

Of course, it was the little people who had the hardest time. The resource of their body was not enough to keep warm. The baby was wrapped in blankets, but the fragile body could not stand the cold. Lucia and more artists did not survive that fateful trip. The girl was only 27 years old.

Zarate's record - tiny height and weight was recorded even at life scientists from Oxford. It was later included in the Guinness Book of Records. as the lightest woman on the planet. Although contenders for this title appear every year, a little fairy so far no one has been able to bypass.