Body Bizarre

Hear the inspiring story of the world’s thinnest woman, Lizzie Velasquez, who has a disorder that stops her body from storing fat. Plus, follow more incredible human stories.

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.

Meet the 17-year-old girl who has learned to live with a very rare condition: a parasitic twin, and follow her journey to remove it. Plus, follow the story of Indonesia’s tree-man.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

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.

In California conjoined twins Erika and Eva Sandoval undergo a 17-hour surgery. In Mississippi, Wells Middleton battles through his new future after losing both his hands. In Indonesia Andriadi Putra has over 30kg of tumors on his body

In Staten Island, New York, 15-year-old John suffers from epidermolysis bullosa and has no indication of how long he might live. In Kansas City, 28-year-old Justice suffers from a rare sleep condition called chronic neurological disorder.

After 22 surgeries and losing his right eye, Amit refuses to let his incurable neurofibromatosis define him. 9-year-old Rajeshwari seeks out medical help to deal with her Ichthyosis. Mari Jade suffers from daily fits.