14 DAY TRIAL // This 113-year-old tiny, yet strong woman is Zeenat Bi, from Bhopal, India. She claims to be the world's oldest dwarf, standing at 3-feet tall (91 cm).
Zeenat's bucket list includes meeting Bollywood star Salman Khan and taking a trip to Mecca, for the yearly Muslim pilgrimage.
According to the Mirror, her age is contested, as Government pension records state she is only 101. Even so, she is still older than the current holder of the Guinness World Record title for Oldest Dwarf, 74-year-old Lowell Deforest Mason.
Zeenat has lived alone for the last 50 years, as she never married, and survives on a monthly pension of 275 rupees ($5,15). She lives in utmost poverty.
“All I have got is a small bed that was gifted to me by the former Chief Minister of the state, Uma Bharti,” she says.
“I only have three teeth left now in my mouth. Once I used to have a beautiful set,” she adds.
Even though she suffers from extreme severe calcium deficiency and had to undergo a cataract operation for her eyes, the woman is in good health, and her hair hasn't gone gray yet.
Zeenat was around when the British still ruled India, and she still remembers those times.
“I am so old that I have seen this city grow up with me. I remember during the British times, this entire city was almost a jungle. There were trees as far as the eye could see. [...] I even remember when the British introduced English bread in the city for the first time. It was such a sensation, it was nothing like people had eaten before,” she describes.
She is cared for by a friend. Zeenat has been living with Abrar Muhammad Khan and his family for 20 years.
“She is like my mother and a part of my family. We don't let her do any work around the house. […] No one in the Government even cares for her. All people use her for is exhibition purposes, but no one really cares for her,” he says, describing the woman's condition.