And you think you’ve got problems?
Dubbed the “Werewolf Sisters,” three Indian girls are faced with taunts every day after being born with a rare syndrome known as hypertrichosis universalis, which results in excessive hair over the body.
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The syndrome, which has no known cure, has halted their mother’s dream of her daughters ever getting married.
The Raut sisters, Savita, 23, Monisha, 18, and Savitri, 16, of Sangli, live in a small village in central India and use a special hair-removal cream, but the hair grows back quickly on their brow.
Savita told local papers:
“Marriage is not an option for us; it’s not likely to happen. Who is going to marry us when hair keeps growing on our faces?”
Anita Sambhaji Raut, the girls’ mother, said her daughters inherited the condition from her late husband, who she wed in an arranged marriage when she was 12.
She said when Savita was a baby, she had “little hairs all over her face.” And people would taunt her.
“When I used to take her out as a child, they used to shout ‘Here comes the beast, the witch!’ That’s what they said.”
The girls’ mom said that of her six daughters, three have the condition.
Savita said that, “when I used to go to school, the boys and girls would shout, ‘hairy face,’ ‘horrible looking,’ ‘Don’t sit next to her,’ that’s how they behaved.”
A documentary filmmaker is planning to tell the sisters’ story, which they hope could help them raise funds for laser surgery to get rid of the unwanted hair.
Hopefully the Raut sisters get the help they need, they should remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Take a look at the accompanying gallery of other kids who over came hardships.
