6. World's Lightest And Heaviest Recorded Adults

Lucia Zarate

Lucia Zarate was a Mexican Entertainer with dwarfism who performed in sideshows. She entered into the Guinness World Records as the world's lightest recorded adult, weighing only 2.1kg at the age of 17. She was born on 2^nd January 1864 in Mexico. Zarate was the first person to have been identified with Majewski osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II (MOPD II) which is a rare disease through genetic disorder form of dwarfism associated with brain and skeletal abnormalities. Zarate achieved her full growth with the height of 61cms by the age of one year. Her family home, Casa Geande (Big House) is open to the public as a museum.

At the age of 12, Zarate moved from Mexico to US, where she was exhibited for her stature. Apart from her height and size, she was found to be healthy and intellegent and able to speak some English along with her native Spanish. She first worked as part of ant act billed as the “Fairy Sisters”, later partnering with Francis Joseph Flynn (“General Mite”) to exhibit internationally. In 1889, she was billed in the Washington Post as the “Marvelous Mexican Midget” in which she was described as “a tiny but all powerfil magnet to draw the public”. After her circus train became stranded in the snowy Sierra Nevada Mountains, Zarate died of hypothermia on 15^th January 1890 at the age of 26.

Jon Brower Minnoch

 

Jon Brower Minnoch is an American who got the Guinness World Record title of world's heaviest person ever in the recorded history of world. He was born on 29^th September 1941 in Washington who had suffered from obesity since childhood. As a adult, he had a height of 185cms (6 feet 1inch) and had reached the peak of his weight of 635kg in 1978. But he was admitted to hospital because of his congestive heart failure due to his over-weight of water accumulation in his body and the doctors suggested him to lose his weight by controlled diet but taking 1200 calories per day for two years. Later he got discharged from the hospital after reaching his weight down to 216kg. In 10^th September 1983, he died at the age of 42 because of Edema in Washington.