ratsoff: Indian 18-year-old Confirmed As World’s Shortest Living Woman: Guinness | National Post An Indian student measuring just 62.8 centimetres (less than two foot, one inch) was on Friday confirmed as the world’s shortest living woman, Guinness World Records said.Jyoti Amge took the title as she celebrated her 18th birthday with family and friends in the city of Nagpur, some 520 kilometres east of Mumbai in western India.Rob Molloy, official adjudicator for Guinness World Records, told AFP: “She’s 62.8 centimetres. She was measured three times over the last 24 hours as height can vary slightly according to the time of day.”Amge, who has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia that has restricted her height to that of an average four-month-old baby girl, has expressed hopes of becoming a Bollywood actress. View some undeniably delightful photos of Joy here. (via nationalpost.)

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Indian 18-year-old Confirmed As World’s Shortest Living Woman: Guinness | National Post

An Indian student measuring just 62.8 centimetres (less than two foot, one inch) was on Friday confirmed as the world’s shortest living woman, Guinness World Records said.

Jyoti Amge took the title as she celebrated her 18th birthday with family and friends in the city of Nagpur, some 520 kilometres east of Mumbai in western India.

Rob Molloy, official adjudicator for Guinness World Records, told AFP: “She’s 62.8 centimetres. She was measured three times over the last 24 hours as height can vary slightly according to the time of day.”

Amge, who has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia that has restricted her height to that of an average four-month-old baby girl, has expressed hopes of becoming a Bollywood actress.

View some undeniably delightful photos of Joy here.

(via nationalpost.)