Meet the shortest woman in the World and her handsome husband

Jyoti Kisange Amge (born 16 December 1993) is an Indian actress/model notable for being the world's shortest living woman according to the Guinness World Records.

Following Amge's 18th birthday on 16 December 2011, she was officially declared the world's shortest woman by Guinness World Records with a height of 62.8 centimetres (2 ft 0.6 in). Her restricted height is due to a genetic disorder called primordial dwarfism.

Amge was featured in the 2009 documentary entitled Body Shock: Two Foot Tall Teen. She was also a guest participant on Bigg Boss 6, an Indian television show. On 13 August 2014, she was cast in the fourth season of American Horror Story: Freak Show as Ma Petite.

In 2012, she met the world's shortest man, Chandra Bahadur Dangi of Nepal. The pair posed together for the 57th edition of the Guinness World Records.

In fact, Jyoti’s success story was only just beginning. On 16 December 2011, she turned 18 – at which point she took the title of Shortest living woman (mobile). She was measured by orthopaedic consultant Dr Manoj Pahukar at the Wockhardt Superspeciality Hospital in her home city of Nagpur, and GWR adjudicator Rob Molloy was on hand to oversee proceedings. 

As with all record holders of extraordinary size, Jyoti’s height was taken at different times of the day, and an average reading then calculated; this is because spine compression causes the body’s height to fluctuate over the course of 24 hours. She was found to be 62.8 cm (2 ft 0.7 in) tall, making her slightly shorter than the previous record holder, 69-cm-tall (2-ft 3-in) Bridgette Jordan from the USA. 

In the first flush of fame, Jyoti had talked about wanting to visit other countries. “I would love to travel to London and to see the different world there,” she revealed. America was on her wish list too. She also confirmed, “I would love to act in films.” 

Happily, all of those aspirations have since been realised. Now a well-established member of the global GWR family, Jyoti has travelled abroad and been photographed on a number of occasions with other record holders – including (in 2012) Chandra Bahadur Dangi, the Shortest man ever. Indeed, she towered over the 54.6-cm-tall (1-ft 9.5-in) Chandra. The two were brought together to help celebrate the launch of Guinness World Records 2013, the 57th edition of our annual best-seller. The historic event marked the first time in history that the world’s shortest man and woman had met.

1. Chandra Bahadur Dangi (NPL, 1939-2015): shortest man ever and shortest person ever; 2. “Princess” Pauline Musters (NLD, 1876-95)): shortest woman ever; 3. Jyoti Amge (IND): shortest woman; 4. Edward Niño Hernández (COL): shortest man

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