Meet an Incredible Family of Arguably the Shortest people in the World who are Married and Have Kids
- An aged woman Anne Marie was born into a family of eleven persons but turned out to be the shortest of the family
- The woman turned out to pass it on to her kids as they were birthed overly short and have gone on to produce similar offsprings
- In a new video, the family of arguably the shortest people in the world spoke on life as dwarfs and how they are braving the odds
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An emerging video documentary has captured a family said to be the shortest in the world. The Youtube video by Afrimax has it that they may have inherited the height from their mum.
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Their mum identified as Anne Marie - who is still not in the know of her actual age - said her parents gave birth to 11 kids but she turned out to be the shortest of them all.
She would go on to marry and pass on the same height trait to her two offsprings - a man and a woman.
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Life as dwa*rfs
Anne's son named Katihabwa said he had tied the knot with a lady after several failed attempts and their union produced five kids. He said three were tall with only two carrying on his dwa*rf stature.
He lamented that his wife however dumped him for another man, leaving him to cater for the kids alone.
The hardworking man revealed how they suffer bullies and taunts from people but find solace in the thought that it is God who thought it okay to create them that way.
One of his kids, Aisha revealed that she was born of normal height mysteriously got shorter as the years progressed.
Khadidja, the other child of Anne decried how parents prevent their kids from coming to see or interact with them but stated that they were already used to it.
Physically challenged man gushes over his wife
Meanwhile, Briefly News previously reported that a physically challenged man had said that his life would have been miserable if his wife hadn't met him.
Though the man identified as Monday Itu is yet to get married to Rose John, he describes her as his wife and intends to pay her bride price whenever he is financially buoyant.
Rose who sells groundnut to feed the family said she and Monday have been together since she was 19 years and in senior secondary school 2. The 24-year-old lady said her parents rejected him on Monday when she took him home.
Monday said he learnt how to make shoes but he hasn't started practising because he has no money to buy equipment. According to the father of two, he sometimes feels jealous when he sees his abled friends working to provide for their families.
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