Shocking! This Girl Has To Eat Every 15 Minutes!

July 2, 2010 / Bizarre and odd / 57 comments

An American girl, who suffers from a rare and undiagnosed syndrome that prevents her from putting on weight, has to eat every 15 minutes in order to stay alive. Lizzie Velasquez, 21, from Texas, who is a communications student, weighs just 25.4 kg and has almost zero per cent body fat, but is not anorexic. This, despite 60 small meals a day, consisting of between 5,000 and 8,000 calories daily. Velasquez had been born four weeks prematurely and doctors found there was minimal amniotic fluid protecting her in the womb. Genetic experts could not diagnose her illness, and her case fascinated doctors all over the world. Now she is part of a study run by Professor Abhimanyu Garg in Dallas. Garg believes Velasquez may have Neonatal Progeroid Syndrome which causes accelerated ageing, fat loss from the face and body. People with PRS often have triangular and prematurely aged faces with pointy nose.

Lizzie said: “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 has a brother Chris, 12, and a sister Marina, 15, who are both normal.She was born four weeks prematurely – weighing just 2lb 10oz.

Lizzie’s parents said: “They told us they had no idea how she could have survived. They told us she would never be able to walk, talk or have a normal life. We had to buy dolls’ clothes from the toy store because baby clothes were too big.”

Despite what her appearance might suggest, Lizzie’s brain, bones, internal organs… developed normally, but she nearly died twice: once when her appendix ruptured at 16 and another time at 19, because her blood cells were not multiplying properly (she was critically anemic).Lizzie was born with two brown eyes, but when she was four, her right eye began to change of color and she became blind from that eye.

Comments

cruel

It’s obvious that she wasn’t meant to live. This is simply cruel and unusual punishment
Jakob West

If that were me I honestly would not want to continue to live. We all try to comfort people like this but the truth is that she is hideous. We cant always hide behind what we wish was the truth. I feel bad for her and wish there was a way to cure what she has. She honestly looks like she would have been a beautiful woman.
dude

Dude cmon, im happy she has had the chance to live a life. She deserves it as much as you. By your awful logic, anyone who was ever sick as a child and had to get helped by modern medicine wasn’t “meant to live.”
John

I think her nice titties make up for everything,
hunterr83

Agreed, John. She’s got nice boobs. As for the rest of you who “wouldn’t want to live like that,” well, nobody cares if you give up on life so easily. She’s enjoys her life.
J.R.

I think she’s awesome for living a good happy life through her diversity, and anyone who says anything hateful about her is probably a pathetic piece of trash who has nothing going for them anyways :) You rock Lizzie!
John

I know right? It just goes to show that any monster can be made beautiful with the right set of tits. I wish my girlfriend had a rack like that.
Gordon

This girl went to my high school! She’s been through a lot and I’m proud of her for never giving up on life. It’s frustrating when ignorant people make fun of her for her condition. Grow up!
jewel ashcroft

I only hope that when she is finally euthanized her skeleton is given away in a local community raffle to raise funds to stop rabies from spreading across the U.S.A.

J.A.
Steve

So long as she’s happy and enjoying life then whatever we think doesn’t really matter. I hope she lives a full and happy life :)
Anni DeFranco

@Steve

I am not a person to comment on these sort of things but i have a gut feeling i just cant ignore. Steve you are a douche and i can tell, even though i only know of you from this one post it is clear to me that everyone around you thinks you are a douche and undoubtly hates you aswell. sorry, well not really your a douche and deserve it.
Joey Rhinebeck

OMG thats the scariest thing i’ve seen since Shazam!
GeOrGiE

^^ROFLcopter^^
the only way to make the movie “the Ring” scarier would be to have this chick crawl out the T.V. at you.

ugh, i hope the animal shelter finally catches her and puts her down
Cheryl

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS ARE AWFULL!!
GET A LIFE!!
LEAVE SUPER SKINNY GIRL ALONE! LEAVE HER ALONE!
Troll Slayer

At least I can rest well knowing she will one day receive comfort from our creator while spoiled, uncaring, simple minded fools will reap the rewards of their efforts. Hope your conscience burns within your mind and you never find relief.
willy clinton

what does she do at night?

wonder how much toilet paper she goes through? she must poop a lot
Imogen

Oh my word!
You sick physchos who say she is hideous and doesn’t deserve to live? Get a life! She didn’t choose to be born like that, and I thin she is doing a good job at living like that, she is so brave. If you were born like that can you imagine how angry you would be at people like you? Life isn’t always fair, that doesn’t mean that the unlucky people should be punished. Leave her alone for fuck’s sake. You’re lucky, be thankful, not arrogant.
Whatever

Honestly, every asshole that had something terrible to say about her REALLY needs to grow the hell up. It’s not her fault. What if y’all had what she has and people were saying mean things about you? If she’s happy, she’s happy. Get over it SHIT.
Nicole

She is so beautiful :)
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endlessly

There are so many hateful and shameful people here.. I am relieved to see that there are some people who understand that girl’s condition. She is struggling to live a healthy lifestyle like everyone else and is pursuing an education. Most healthy individuals take like for granted. I hope she lives a long and beautiful life. I’m sure she values every day. It says she is part of research, I hope she helps others who are born with that challenging condition.
Anon

No wonder she’s so skinny, all she eats is trash.
Justme

Give her a beehive. Put a drink in one hand, cigarette in the other and she could be Amy Winehouse!
Nini

Has anyone noticed that she’s smiling in every single picture??
She must be a happy person after all. That’s all that counts in my opinion.

To those indicating, that her life is not worth living: back in the day were some people thinking the same about disabled people, mentally ill …. and jews. Did you guess right?

To those who still don’t get it: it was the Nazis. So think again, about suggesting, that someone should be ‘put to sleep’.
Angela Vaughn

There was a story on her the other day in our local news. She has a great family and awesome friends! It’s all about the support system. She is happy! She was a cheerleader for a school in Austin, Texas. She also wrote a motivational book and is a motivational speaker. She just looks different but she is a normal woman. She is only one of two people in the whole world with this disease.
http://www.com/ Bob Bobson

How does she sleep? If she has to eat every 15 minutes, then wouldn’t sleeping kill her or does she have a super-massive meal before bed?

The more complex a system is, the more ways there are that it can fail, and the myriad variety of disorders is a great example of that.
http://www.com/ Bob Bobson

Oh, and that isn’t her child is it? I cannot imagine that she could possibly survive pregnancy; not only is her body too brittle to physically carry a child, but the energy expenditure of nourishing and worse, delivering a child would certainly kill her.
Dr. Shahzad Qureshi

Lizzie Velasquez, 21, from Texas, who is a communications student, weighs just 25.4 kg and has almost zero per cent body fats.
If I could get her hair, 1 inch longer, 200 to 300, then I can able to start her treatement, I think that, she need to use the homoeopathic remedy, Name (Natrum Murticum)If she is willing then its easy to help her.
Positive

When I scrolled through the photos, I can see her beauty. Yes her appearance may be initially alarming, but looking at her you can see her inner beauty so much that it takes away from the obvious disorder. You assholes that said negative things about her are the ugly people on the inside…probably outside too. Ya’ll are going to hell in a housewarming basket.
Real Realington

While i completely want the world to return to the way of “if they need help to live, they should die” method of population control… can we look at the facts? keep your religion and self conceived idea of “inner beauty” to yourself, what is she worth to the rest of the world? consuming junk food/food in general is it?
yes she has something you all are trying to protect, but if it was your job to eliminate her because it is threatening your way of life you would utterly destroy her.
Get your collected minds out of fantasy land and realize that she isn’t strong at all since someone is supporting her 100%.
Go pray to your false gods and “condemn” me with your trolling words but the truth lives on.
http://idonthaveone.com realrealingtonsuckscock

Hey Real Realton, what are you worth to the rest of the world since you think that’s all that matters? Nothing, so go kill yourself and let other people live their lives via the technology and medicine that we have developed to be able to do so. This girl contributes more then you do by helping research to create new ways to help people with other similar disabilities and problems and maybe someday via the building blocks of continued research and development we can find a way to keep people from even having to worry about having a rare disorder like this. So yeah, go ahead and kill yourself since you are more worthless to everyone then she is and you think that’s how things should be handled.
Anonymouse(tm)

She seems like a regular person with a rare disorder. Although it seems most of her would-be body fat has went to her breasts.
Ugh

holy pointy jesus moobie mipples batman get this ugly bitch a burger stat!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unico

What bothers me is that she is eating (what most consider) junk food. She should be on a high protein diet, a lot of meats. Eating a lot of snacks isn’t the way.
Carly

@Real Realington… how self righteous are you? what makes you think you are worth anymore that you just because you don’t have to eat as much as her, what position are you in to say she should die? what is your contibution to this earth apart fom hate? nothing, say yeah like the one posted kill yourself then!
HC

Poor Girl
l4dgamer

spitter!

http://www.google.se/imgres?imgurl=http://rodrav.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/left-4-dead-2-spitter.jpg&imgrefurl=http://rodrav.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/left-4-dead-2/&usg=__je35r8V27tvP_6d7MMcQpUbUHsk=&h=1018&w=600&sz=109&hl=sv&start=11&zoom=1&tbnid=ODTaZxDoZ9uUYM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=88&ei=Wv42TcnOBIaytAb59O2TAQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dspitter%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dsv%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D775%26tbs%3Disch:10,3&um=1&itbs=1&biw=1440&bih=775
Jenny

All of you people are disgusting. You wouldn’t last a day in her shoes, and you know it. You’re just too ignorant and shallow to admit it.

Look her up online, watch her videos and look at her website/Facebook. She’s an amazing person, she HELPS people, and even if she’s not drop-dead gorgeous she is still a beautiful person inside AND out.
800 THOUSAND

Her metabolism is unhinged!
DGeneration

CREEP!
Tootles

I’d be more than happy to lend her my bodyfat.
Pfff

Poor girl.

You can see that she would be pretty if she would not have this problem.

This is sad.
Ali

To Real Realington

Hey, you know what? You’re right. Let’s kill all the people who “don’t contribute” anything to society. Who will decide who’s worthless to humanity? We are. Since we’re much better than others (or so we like to think to feel better about our worthless lives).

So when your parents get old, let’s kill them. Let’s kill all the old people. Let’s kill all the people who have no jobs. Let’s kill the 30% of human population that lives in poverty. But most importantly: let’s kill you. Why? Because I said you’re worthless. Who gave me the right to decide that and take your life you ask? Hell I don’t know, the same guy who gave you the right to decide this woman don’t contributed to anyone and therefore needs to die. What’s that? You want to live? I don’t care, wasn’t asking for your opinion.

Oh, and by the way, I’m not religious. I’m just not a hateful and pathetic person like you are.
Kitakami Ren

BS. That quote totally blows the whole thing, I don’t even have to bother fact checking. Americans don’t call potato chips CRISPS. Crisp is only used as an adjective in the American dialect, no matter what region you’re from. No American would ever say she has to eat crisps to keep her energy levels up. This was obviously written by someone in the British commonwealth. FAIL.
PEter

she should be killed.
*****

her friends and family are such good people
Jay

+1 Unico
me

Gen. 1:27. We all are created in God’s image. She is beautiful!.
I’m scared…

This is proof that “God” isn’t real. Why would he allow someone to go through this? Poor lady.
JesusSuckedGayPenis

She be hawt!!!