This woman has found true love, despite suffering from brittle bone disease and being only a metre tall, with a boyfriend who is nearly twice her height.
Yana Gromovich, 27, suffers with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), also known as ‘brittle bone disease’, a group of genetic disorders that mainly affect the bones but also weaken muscles and can result in bone deformities and growth issues.
One of the most famous examples of OI in pop culture is the character of Elijah Price, better known as Mr Glass, played by Samuel L.
Jackson in the Night Shyamalan films ‘Unbreakable’ (2000) and Glass (2019) The young woman from the city of Kopeysk in the south-western Russian region of Chelyabinsk Oblast reportedly weights just 25 kilogrammes and stands at
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