Lizzie Velasquez Has To Eat Every 15 Minutes

Lizzie Velasquez Has To Eat Every 15 Minutes — A girl who weighs just around four stone has told how she has to eat up to 60 meals a day to keep alive. Lizzie Velasquez, 21-year-old from Austin, Texas, has a rare and undiagnosed syndrome that prevents her from putting on weight. She has to eat every 15 minutes and needs to consume up to 8,000 calories every single day. Despite her huge intake, the communications student has never tipped the scales over 4st 3lbs. Lizzie Velasquez, who wears size triple zero clothes, eats small portions of food all day long.

Her favourites are crisps, sweets, chocolate, pizza, chicken, cake, doughnuts, ice cream, noodles and pop tarts. She said: “What the syndrome causes is that I’m not able to gain weight.

“I have 0% body fat as well. I eat whatever I want all day long and just can’t keep the pounds on.

“I get pretty upset when people accuse me of being anorexic.”

Lizzie was born prematurely, weighing just 2lb 10oz and is also blind in one eye.

Doctors now believe she may have a form of Neonatal Progeroid Syndrome (NPS) which causes accelerated ageing, fat loss and tissue degeneration.

People with NPS often have triangular and prematurely aged faces with a pointy nose.

Despite her condition Lizzie is hugely positive about the future and has written a book about her life which is due out in September.

She said she was overjoyed her story had been picked up by the international media.

“Today just might be the best day of life!! Just can’t wipe this smile off my face!!” she wrote on her Twitter page.

“Sharing my story with the world is very close to my heart!”

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