The height of 39-year-old Valeria Levitina is 171 centimeters, and weight is only 25 kilograms. Journalists say that Valeria, the thinnest woman in the world, looks like a mummy, and they are not far from the truth. After all, it is difficult to find a more accurate comparison for a skeleton covered in leather. Doctors instantly make a diagnosis - anorexia nervosa, referring to a serious disease that is difficult to cure, and sometimes impossible.
How did the thinnest woman in the world come to such a deplorable result? Trying to warn by example of girls who want to get rid of the extra kilograms, in their opinion, Valery Levitina willingly reveals the story of her life.
As a child, Valeria did not stand out among Moscow peers by anything special, she was a dummy and experienced some dissatisfaction from this. In 1989, her mother and stepfather decided to emigrate to America, where Valeria from a girl turned into a rather slender and attractive young lady. She took part in beauty contests, for successful performance in which it was necessary to lose weight.
The girl strove to become a famous model, but her desire to lose weight brought fame, but in a completely different quality. The passionate desire to lose weight made her famous in the category “The World's Thinnest Woman”, bringing Valeria enormous troubles in the form of rather serious health problems, inability to conceive a child, and lead a lifestyle of a full-fledged healthy person.
The development of the disease, according to Valeria, was led by friends' criticisms of her appearance, glossy articles calling to comply with the model standard, and a mother who wants to see her daughter embody her ideas about perfection. She began to lose weight with harmless diets, followed the rules of a healthy diet, and gradually abandoned a number of products. The begun weight loss was so pleasing that the line, when the weight loss turned into a disease, went unnoticed. It is not only a disfigured appearance, the thinnest woman in the world is seriously ill. Valeria "got it" to the critical stage when, as a result of dystrophic changes in internal organs, an irreversible inhibition of their functions began, which could lead to a very sad outcome.
Now the thinnest woman in the world lives on one social allowance in Monaco, because the principality’s climate is suitable for maintaining relatively tolerable well-being. Valery Levitin is lonely. She is forced to eat according to a strictly defined scheme, since eating gives an excruciating sensation due to disruption of the digestive system.
Valeria Levitina, who realized her problem, is open for communication. She comes to talk shows in order to clearly demonstrate to girls dreaming of losing weight the danger of striving to meet the standards imposed in the fashion industry. Very thin girls, whose photos make you want to immediately regret and feed the lightweight creature, are idols of a certain category of teenage girls and young women. There are even communities of people who dream of anorexia. It is with them, beginners, who have not yet become dependent on the disease, who shares the bitter experience of Valery Levitin, wishing to warn against rash experiments that are dangerous not only for health but also for life.