Young Woman Gives Birth To Girl Who Looks Older Than Her Due To Rare Condition

A young woman has gone viral for giving birth to a girl who looks older than her, with netizens cruelly remarking that the newborn resembled “an old woman”.

The unnamed 20-year-old South African woman gave birth to a girl with the rare medical condition progeria, also called Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome, which causes victims to age faster than usual.

Local media reported on Monday, 30th August that the young woman gave birth at her home in the small town of Libode in the province of Eastern Cape after her grandmother phoned for an ambulance after she went into labour, but it failed to arrive in time.

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A 20-year-old unidentified woman from South Africa has given birth to a baby girl that looks like an old woman due to a rare condition called Progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, in Libode, South Africa.

After the baby girl was born with deformed hands and wrinkled skin, she and her mother were taken to hospital.

Her grandmother told reporters: “We were told there that she’s disabled. I noticed during her birth that there was something strange with her. She did not cry and she was breathing through her ribs.

“I was shocked because that was strange. Now I hear that people are calling her names. That hurts a lot. If I had means, I would put all of them in jail.”

After snaps of the newborn were posted online, some netizens commented that she looked like “an old woman”, or even “an ape”, to the chagrin of her family and other netizens.

Individuals born with progeria typically succumb to severe cardiovascular complications in their mid-teens to early twenties.

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A 20-year-old unidentified woman from South Africa has given birth to a baby girl that looks like an old woman due to a rare condition called Progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, in Libode, South Africa.

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