Valeria Levitina is the world’s skinniest anorexic woman. At the age of 39 she is considered by some a living mummy, due to the fact that she shockingly has just 25 kilograms. Basically, a fully grown woman has the weight of a 6-year-old child due to anorexia. If you’re curious to know what her story is, keep on reading.
Meet Valeria, a 39-year-old woman who looks like she could be 60 years old… Her entire body was ruined by a long battle with anorexia. The woman is 172 centimeters tall, but she is so skinny that she only weighs 25 kilos. How did she get in this state? The cruel truth is that she did it to herself.
Back in 1989, Valeria’s parents decided to move their whole lives in the United States from Moscow. Valeria was very pretty when before she lost so much weight, and since she was so full of life and beauty, the girl decided to enter a beauty pageant in 1994 and pursue a modeling career. That was the beginning of the end for her… Valeria admitted that the “Miss Chicago” title was the trigger of her self-dependent starvation.
When she was just 19 Valeria had already lost a lot of weight but still looked very feminine, at 23 Valeria was beginning to look slim and by the age of 24, Valeria Levitina weighed around 38 kilograms.
Valeria now lives alone in Monaco where she gets a lot of the much-needed sunshine her body requires. She can barely feel the taste of food, and going shopping is a terrible ordeal. She needs to know the exact amount of carbs, proteins and fats in the products she buys. Even though she no longer has an eating disorder, Valeria is still not able to gain weight.
The poor girl barely has enough energy to study and do her daily chores. The entire eating disorder has its roots in the girl’s childhood, when her mother used to weigh her constantly and be worried about her weight. The mother was concerned about her daughter being fat, since many women in her family suffered from weight problems…
The saddest part about the whole situation is the fact that she lost weight to be more desirable for the ones around her, and all of her weight loss only brought Valeria loneliness and sadness.
What’s even more sad, is the fact that Valeria gets hundreds of emails from girls in their 20s who say that they want to be just like her, and that she is a source of inspiration for them. In order to make everyone aware of the fact that it is WRONG to starve yourself to death, Valeria agreed to have her destroyed body be photographed.
