It's hard to believe, but these 5 people with anomalies really existed!

From time to time, nature plays a cruel joke on us and "special" people are born. They are often called freaks, but this does not prevent them from trying to live a normal life. We will tell some stories about people who lived in the late XIX and early XX centuries.

Ella Harper, known as the "Camel Man".

The girl got her nickname because of a terrible orthopedic pathology - her legs were turned back, and she had to walk on all fours. All her life, Ella worked in the circus, earning, by the way, considerable sums for those times — about $ 200 a week. The woman died in 1921 at the age of 51.

Fenny Mills, nicknamed "The Girl with Big Feet".

Fenny's anomaly is called Milroy's disease, or lymphostasis. This is a congenital disease of the lymphatic system. It was because of her that the size of a woman's feet reached 17 inches in length, which is as much as 43 centimeters!

Morris Tillet ("The French Angel").

In adolescence, the boy was diagnosed with acromegaly, a disease that is associated with a violation of the function of the anterior pituitary gland and is accompanied by an increase in the feet, hands and skull. However, this man was not an outsider. He became a two-time heavyweight boxing champion in the early 1900s, as well as a movie star in the 1940s.

Frank Lentini, also known as "The Consummate Lentini".

Frank was born with a fully functioning third leg, which was the consequence of an unsuccessfully born Siamese twin. All his life, the man worked in circus shows, and this did not prevent him from getting married and becoming a father of two children.

Gene Liberra — "The Man with Two torsos".

This man was truly unique, as a Siamese twin joined his body in the womb. After taking an X—ray of Gene's chest, doctors were surprised to find a small head with a circumference of 15 cm inside. Libra even gave his twin a name - Jax.