This is a man who deserves to be remembered.

I love her tattoos.

AND she's doing it in heels!

The sad thing is, she used to be normal looking (even pretty) and then she got sick with a disease that made her face and feet swollen. She wasn't born this way and she used her condition and let people make fun of her so she can put food on the table. Sad really..

Roughly $6,671 a week in today's money

Bench pressing roughly 350kg? Won 5 world championships yet?

Yeah the stilts puts this over the top.

He lived to 63, with no limbs. That's quite an accomplishment!

There's money in that? That's how I look every morning.

"George and Willie Muse were two brothers who grew up in Truevine, part of a sharecropping family that lived in a tobacco farming community near Roanoke, Virginia. The two brothers were both albinos, a feature that Willie claimed prompted a circus man to abduct the two children in 1899 while they worked in a field."

this is a badass pick tho

I love this photo but am not a fan of clowns. I am really drawn to this image!

Great pic

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That 5 year old looks 50...

I think George had hyperthyroidism. He was 6 foot 3. Fred was only 4 foot 2. He probably had hypothyroidism. Thyroid hormone was only synthesised in the early 1920's?

Lucía Zárate was a Mexican entertainer with dwarfism who performed in sideshows. Zárate is the first person to have been identified with Majewski osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II. She was entered into the Guinness World Records as the "lightest recorded adult", weighing 4.7 pounds at the age of 17.

I love how she's slaying

Their story is very tragic. They were purchased from their mother by her employer, Mary, who wanted to profit off their condition. They were very much slaves to her and her daughter (they were out and out bequeathed to Mary's daughter when Mary died), and were beaten and abused if they didn't follow orders. They managed to successfully sue the daughter and her husband and gain emancipation in 1931.

Holy s**t that's a nightmare

If I read this correctly, Clarence was nine years old, which makes him a boy not a man.

We all just tryna find the fourth foot

I bet he stood out in the trenches

No words.

Again, hypertrichosis.

I have seen him starring in "Freaks". I just looked him up - he lived to be 79!

"The Elephant Man" (1980) is one of the most poignant films I have ever seen. I highly recommend it.

My friend has this

Some cultural body modifications I can get: Holes in ears to hang decorations, tatoos. Piercings of lips and noses look impractical, but rarely affect the use of these body parts. But this ... why?

May the husband get stuffed every day for eternity.

From Wikipedia: "The brothers were born with Chinese ancestry in Siam (now known as Thailand) and were brought to the United States in 1829." "In 1839, after a decade of financial success, the twins quit touring and settled near Mount Airy, North Carolina. They became American citizens, bought slaves, married local sisters, and fathered 21 children, several of whom accompanied them when they resumed touring. Chang and Eng's respective families lived in separate houses, where the twins took alternating three-day stays. After the Civil War, they lost part of their wealth and their slaves. Eng died hours after Chang at the age of 62. An autopsy revealed that their livers were fused in the ligament connecting their sternums."

They are so cute!

Waxworks are exaggerated versions he didn't have a trunk

Doesn't look much like Hugh Jackman does he.

From Wikipedia: "Although normal for most of his childhood, Sprague began irreversibly losing weight at age 12 after feeling ill after swimming.The weight loss continued throughout his life despite having a healthy appetite. His condition has been described by historians as extreme progressive muscular atrophy. This ultimately led to his death." "Sprague made attempts to stay away from the sideshow, but he could not escape financial distress. It is rumored that in addition to being financially responsible for his wife and their three sons, Sprague had a gambling problem. His condition also kept him from finding real work anywhere other than Barnum's, so he continued to tour off and on throughout the country and eventually overseas. By the age of 44, he was 5 feet and 6 inches (168 cm) tall with a weight of only 43 pounds (19.5 kg). Sprague's condition required him to be constantly taking in nutrients."

He had hypertrichosis.

teamwork

Ok I'm probably going to be downvoted for this but I really want to know what does the other twin do while one twin is having sex? Go to sleep, read a book? I'm just really curious. Sorry my mind is in the gutter.

From Wikipedia: "She toured with showman P. T. Barnum as a circus attraction. Whether the cause of her condition was hirsutism or an unrelated genetic condition that affects children of both sexes and continues into adult years is unknown. Many photographers, including Mathew Brady, took her portraits during her lifetime, which were widely distributed. As an adult, Jones became the country's top "bearded lady" and acted as a spokesperson for Barnum's "Freaks", a word she tried to abolish from the business. Jones married Richard Elliot in 1881, but divorced him in 1895 for her childhood sweetheart William Donovan, who died, leaving Jones a widow. In 1902, Jones died in Brooklyn of tuberculosis."

unfortunately this is normal now

Their own mother?! As if being sold like a f*cking animal wasn't bad enough. Just evil.

From Wikipedia: "She was exhibited by her parents as a sideshow attraction from as early as the age of two. Later she was presented commercially by her mother and Professor Weller's One-Man Band throughout the Midwestern United States. She was consistently shown as a standalone exhibit in store front exhibitions. By the time she was five years old, her hair grew to about 5 inches (130 mm), eventually increasing to about 9 inches (230 mm) by the time she was a teenager. Doherty was never interested in entertainment, but continued to perform to support her family, anxiously awaiting retirement."

Thank you for respectfully not posting as to one of the reasons as to why she was famous. She has been through enough and now resting peacefully in her home soil

I can (somewhat) understand people with physical deformities only finding employment (and possibly fame and wealth) in side-shows, but this is something else. There were "human zoos" where people brought (often without their consent) from different countries and cultures were exhibited like exotic animals, and treated as such. Several of the Paris "Expositions coloniales" in the late 18s and early 19s had such reconstituted "villages" populated with miserable people. Many died, very few ever got to go back where they had come from.