Body Bizarre

When Richard, 43, was shot in the face he underwent a face transplant, but now has complications. In a Peruvian village boys and men are going blind.

In India, baby Chahat weighs as much a six-year-old. Her family travel 2000kms to see a top obesity expert. In Spain, Juana is allergic to the outside world.

Lee, 42, from England, has a rare stomach disorder that means his body is eating itself. In Columbia, Edward is just 70cm tall. Can a specialist explain it?

In Mexico Dany, 8, was born with Moebius Syndrome which paralysed her face. She's set to undergo delicate microsurgery. Will she smile for the first time?

In Mexico, Adrian, 22, has a basketball-sized tumour on the side of his face. In the US Janice has a giant leg that has grown out of proportion to the...

In India, Arpit was born with his heart positioned on the outside of his rib cage. In Brazil, Winny suffers from a rare disorder that means her skin falls off.

Italian professor Letitzia feels no physical pain and has broken limbs with no discomfort. Filipino twins Czarina and Ciara, 7, were born joined at the head.

In Peru, diver Alejandro's body has blown up like a balloon. Marc from Germany has to drink 20 litres of water every day or risks death.

Sulaiman suffers from Cruzon syndrome, which causes his eye to fall from his skull. Tony became a hermit when huge lumps grew around his face.

Mahesh weighs 150kg, twice the weight of an average man, due to a syndrome that encourages constant eating. A development in the womb left Christian with no eyes.

Fatima is allergic to light and even indoors must take precautions to avoid succumbing to skin cancer. Amar's face has been destroyed by a bony tumour.

Darina was born with a genetic disorder that's left her with a deformed mouth and jaw. Isaiah was born with his organs back to front and no jaw at all.

Rebecca vomits up to 12 times an hour and is often hospitalised. Jacque has a lymphatic malformation in her face that means she has never talked.

Three-year-old Ana suffers from a brain crushing prematurely fused skull. Alex had septicaemia that rapidly led to the amputation of all four of his limbs.

Ignacia suffers from a facial tumour that could asphyxiate her. Thomas has a rare bone eating disease that has ruined the left side of his torso.

Ylena's neck painfully dislocates at the slightest movement. Kayla has an extremely rare and painful condition where her arm burns on the inside.

A boy can't stop his giant foot from growing; a woman with bubbly skin and her kids embrace their condition; a dwarf boy who defied the odds has one more challenge to face; a man with a facial tumor must conquer his fear of surgery.

A girl's rare disorder causes her eyes to fall out of her head; a man who grows branches from his hands and feet hopes to return home; a baby with a large face tumor.

A girl lives with ants in her head; a man undergoes surgery to remove his 132-lb tumor; a woman with a large facial tumor contemplates a life-changing surgery.

A man is slowly choking to death because of his overgrown face; a boy is born with three arms; family members embrace being born with six fingers on each hand; an obese man strives to lose enough weight to have life-saving surgery.

A woman who slept through the birth of her child, hopes to find a diagnosis for her sleeping condition; a man with giant genitals seeks help; a 2.5ft teenager hopes to find out what stalled his growth.

A man seeks to repair his face after being mauled by a tiger; an 11-year-old undergoes fire treatment to lose weight; a boy living with tissue paper skin; a man with a hole in his face search for cures; a model embraces her hairy birthmarks.

A look at how Sandra dos Santos, 50, from Rio, Brazil, lives the Rio beach lifestyle, despite the thousands of tiny tumours that bubble her skin - for which there is no cure.

Kenyan orphan Forence Owitni, 28, suffered a growth on his genitals that has swollen his testicles and penis to the size of bagpipes. Can doctors successfully operate on him?

Harmonie-Rose Allen contracted septicaemia as a baby, and had all her limbs amputated. Now her life is set to change as she gets prosthetics fitted. This is her amazing story.

17-year old Moroccan teenager Zoubair lives with extreme facial tumours that cause difficulties with breathing. Doctors must perform complex, yet life-changing surgeries.

12-year-old Shreya Darji from India suffers an infestation where over a thousand ants were removed from her ears, with ten emerging every day. What causes this nightmarish problem?

Hashmot Ali was fishing to feed his growing family in Bangladesh when a tiger attacked him, tearing his face away. Now, 20 years on, he seeks an operation to restore his features.

Brazilian conjoined twins who share vital organs face risky separation surgery. In India, 12-year-old boys joined at the waist are inseparable.

Meet an eight foot tall teen, a boy from India who possesses his own tail, a Brazilian man with supersized muscles, and the lobster woman.

Doctors operate on a huge neck tumour, an English teen is diagnosed with a rare aging condition, and an Indian baby is born with an extra head.

A Brazilian village fears the sun, a South African woman has giant legs, there's an armless American mother and a girl's tongue won't stop growing.

Meet a Frenchman with a rare shaking condition, and an American woman with an enormous stomach tumour, and the wibbly wobbly man.

Meet a teen who has aged prematurely, a schoolteacher who cries crystals, a mother with very brittle bones, and a boy with butterfly skin.

A teen with a transgender girlfriend begins his sex-change transition and a Chinese woman lives with backwards hands and feet.

A woman embraces a condition that causes her to grow facial hair and a Nepalese man born with three legs gets a life-changing operation.

A British man is literally scared stiff. A Thai man would be the tallest man in the word if he could stand. A child born with an unknown condition baffles the medical community. A toddler covered in hair, and the man with an elephant leg.

A girl has a terminal neck tumour, and one woman has a black and white body and the other has the world's largest hands.

A Puerto Rican boy’s face is melting away. In Afghanistan, doctors operate on a baby born with a parasitic tumour. A Brazilian girl’s feet won’t stop growing. In Sweden, a village can’t feel pain, and the man who lost his face to cancer finds a new look.

In Brazil, a man has an upside-down head; triplets undergo a second round of life-saving surgeries and an Argentinian has giant-sized limbs.

Hear the inspiring story of Lalit Ram, who has learned to live with a large benign tumour that has disfigured his face. Plus, follow more incredible human stories.

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