Tuesday 1 August 2006

Brooke looks like any other baby girl. But in fact, she's 12 years old

Original story: Charles Laurence in New York(Filed: 22/05/2005)

Brooke Greenberg has celebrated 12 birthdays according to the calendar and her family photo albums. In terms of growing up, however, she has yet to reach her first.
To the mystification of the medical world, Brooke is frozen in time, a real-life, female Peter Pan. She weighs 13lb and measures 27 inches, and looks and acts as if she were a six-month-old baby, not a girl about to become a teenager.
Brooke lives with her parents Howard and Melanie Greenberg and her three sisters in Reisterstown, a Baltimore suburb, and doctors credit her survival to their love and support.

Video here: Forever Young Video.

Sounds really weird - but could it possibly be true?

This is an old story but A Welsh View has a post here Link: and Googling produces many web entries but not much more enlightenment. Nobody seems to be able to decide whether or not it is a hoax. MSNBC ran the story twice in 2001 then again in 2005. I can't find the 2001 story which was mentioned by Wikipedia (They don't give a link).