At just 2ft 7 inches tall, 19 year-old Cristianne Ray has become the smallest living woman to give birth. She has defied medical experts who said carrying a baby inside her pint-sized body would crush her lungs and kill her.
Doctors feared for Cristianne’s life and when they first heard of her unplanned pregnancy they urged her to have an abortion.
Cristianne was determined to have her baby, despite the risks, and now, against all odds, sits cradling her newborn baby in her arms. Proud dad, Jeremy Bowden towers over the pair of them at 6ft 4 inches. Baby Kyrsten was born 4lb 8oz and 14 inches long – almost half the height of her 31 inch mum.
