The only girl who was born with her grandmother’s face: How she lives now at 25

Ekaterina Nezhentseva, a resident of Novy Urengoy, was born with a very rare genetic disease – progeria.

With progeria, only about a hundred people on Earth are born – a premature aging syndrome.

The aging process in people with a genetic disease has already started in early childhood.

As Katya’s mother said, twenty-four years ago, in the maternity ward, looking at her daughter for the first time, the woman realized that all was clearly not well with the baby.

Thus, only a few months had passed – the girl’s face already looked like an old woman.

The peculiarity of the disease is that, unfortunately, mankind has not yet found a cure, and it is not clear how to turn back time, restore youth.

The husband could not withstand the ordeal of Katya’s illness and immediately left his wife and daughter.

Friends and relatives told the mother to send the baby to an orphanage.

She couldn’t even conceive of betraying her daughter and leaving her.

Moreover, it should be noted that at first only the face ages.

And as you can see in the current photo of the heroine, the neck too.

And the rest of the body develops according to the normal biological age.

Needless to say, Catherine’s childhood was not easy: the strange girl was teased and humiliated in every possible way, starting from kindergarten.

As a schoolgirl, Nezhentseva somehow resigned herself to her appearance, but did not lose hope, like any girl, to find love, to find true family happiness.

Therefore, fate brought a pleasant surprise – an acquaintance with a young man, Denis Parshikov, who became her husband.

The happy couple had two sons, Gleb and Mikhail.

But not everything was so rosy: the genetic disease was inherited by the youngest baby.

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