2023 Author: Adelina Croftoon | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-24 12:05
When she was born, she weighed a little over 1 kg, and was inferior in height to a Barbie doll. Now she is 17 years old and a little over a meter tall, and weighs as much as a 3-year-old child. At the same time, the girl tries to lead an active life, skates and acts in films
Kenady Jourdain (aka Kenadi Jourdain-Bromley) was born on February 13, 2003 in Ontario, Canada, with a very rare congenital form of dwarfism - primordial dwarfism.
Sometimes this shape is also called proportional dwarfism, because such children know how to have the correct proportions of the head, body and limbs, but all this is very small.
In the press, these young children are often referred to as doll-like, Thumbelina, or finger-boys, because in childhood they really look like realistic dolls.
Due to a whole bunch of accompanying anomalies, not every baby with a similar form of dwarfism lives up to 1 year of life, and those who managed to live longer now number only about 100 people all over the world.
At birth, Kenadi weighed a little more than 1 kg, and her height was only 28 cm. In appearance, she seemed like a tiny premature baby, whom even her mother was afraid to take in her arms, fearing to break the arm or leg.
The girl also had an underdeveloped brain and doctors told her parents that if she survived, she would most likely not walk or talk. Kenady, however, completely crushed all the most pessimistic predictions about her development.
Now she is 17 years old and she not only walks and speaks normally, but she managed to graduate from school, she loves dancing, goes in for sports and even starred in a children's science fiction film.
As a rule, the main problems in children with initial dwarfism are associated with delayed mental development, difficulty breathing and a weak immune system. Kenadi had all this, too, but her parents did everything to help their child.
The older the girl got, the more the parents became confident that the doctors were very wrong with their predictions. And when Kenadi began to go to school and with difficulties, but still managed to get trained, it became clear that her future could be much happier than expected.
In 2010, Kenadi decided to try herself as an actress and she was taken on the role of a bird girl in the children's fantasy film "Iep!" The film is practically unknown outside of Canada, but received excellent audience ratings from the local audience.
Kenadi has a younger brother who was born two years after her and turned out to be completely healthy. At the age of 4, he already overtook his sister in height.
Kenadi has a very thin voice, but she speaks well and understands everything. Her mental development in the 2nd grade of the school corresponded to that of about a 5-year-old child, but later Kenadi began to reduce this difference. Teachers say Kenadi was not much different from other students in her class, apart from her height. At 12 years old, Kenadi was 99 cm tall, at 17 her height was only a little more than a meter.
According to journalists, everyone who came across this girl describes her as a very sweet, bright and kind child, who, at the same time, has his own character, will and stamina.
Now for a girl, or rather a girl, the most serious danger is fragile bones. Doctors have already warned her that she needs to be very careful as she gets older. Kenadi doesn't really listen to them, but continues to go to the rink and skate every weekend.
