Meet Zeng Yushan: The Woman Who Will Never Grow Old
She was born in June 1994 and at the age of seven she stopped growing and was diagnosed with a tumour on her pituitary gland, which caused a deficiency in growth hormones.
Due to her growth defect, she was forced by her father to beg until she was 19 because she looked like a child.
Unable to afford to pay for treatment, her parents had argued bitterly about the disease before finally divorcing, leaving Zeng with her father Yul Wei, 43.
But shortly after the divorce, the father was also diagnosed as being seriously ill. Unable to pay any of their bills the pair ended up on the streets, travelling from city to city as beggars.
In 2013, Zeng’s father died from gastric cancer leaving her alone and after she was spotted begging, a kind-hearted couple who had two daughters of their own agreed to take her in.
Guo Liu, 50, said that when they first saw her, he and his wife were unsure if she was a boy or girl because she had no hair, and had suffered horrific physical problems because of her medical condition.
She is now getting regular medical care and although she is 20, still looks as if she is seven or eight-years-old and has the mental ability of a child aged around five or six
