World's smallest woman's joy at Guinness award

Hatica Kocaman - the world"s smallest woman at just 28 inches tall and weighing 15lbs - suffers from a rare bone disease that meant that, at 21-years-old, she has the body mass of an eight-year-old baby.

Hatica was officially granted the title of world"s smallest woman by Guinness earlier this year, second only to Nepalese man, Khagendra Thapa Magar who at 25.8 inches is the worlds smallest person.

"I always hoped that one day the world would recognise me." she said, "It was hard when i was a child becouse all my classmates used to tease me for being small."

"But now i am famous becouse of my size. So it makes me feel like i am much taller. I hope to travel and to meet lots of people including the tallest man in the world."

"She weighed 3lbs 10oz when she was born and was a normal baby. We never noticed any problems until she was one. Then we noticed she seemed to be growing more slowly than other babies." said Haticas mother. 

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