This is pretty amazing. She weighed the same as a party-size pizza, or a smoked beef brisket. It appears from the picture that she was proportional, making her look more like a doll.

Babies' eyeballs don't grow much even through adulthood, but this seems to occur or begin well before that stage of life.

The link to her condition is interesting, although a little sparse. You'd think they might describe that particular aspect, as it is clearly different than "classical" dwarfism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcephalic_osteodysplastic_...

She would be an amazing astronaut candidate. Smaller size would make a Moon or Mars mission much more economical. I wonder how much food she ate, to calculate how much provisions would be enough for a 2-year roundtrip.

I would not have held it for possible to be a functional person, "healthy and intelligent" according to "medical professionals" at the time, while weighing only 2.1 kilograms, so I thought I'd share

Has anyone else ever wondered what would happen if we would choose to stay smaller? As a teenager I was thinking that, child-sized, we could all live very comfortably in apartments half the size of today's, need far less food and other resources from the earth, transportation becomes a lot easier... Not that I expect this to actually happen, but it does seem like a solution to a lot of problems that would otherwise require significant changes. At least with today's medicine where infant mortality is such that the population (in developed places) does not need many children and does not significantly grow anymore (otherwise it would just delay the inevitable)