14 DAY TRIAL // A 6-year-old girl living in China's Sichuan province is now in dire need of medical attention. Thus, the child is believed to be suffering from a rare medical condition that is causing excess hair to grow on her back, arms and face.
The young girl, photos of whom are available above, presently shares a home with her father and her grandmother. Her name is Zhao Xinrui, but most of the people living in the village of Changshan prefer calling her “catgirl.” Daily Mail tells us that the girl earned this nickname shortly after hair started growing in the most unusual of places on her body. As noticeable in the photo above, most of the child's back is now covered in fur-like hair.
Zhao Xinrui's grandmother and father say that, for the time being, about half of the 6-year-old's body is covered in fur. Should the odd medical condition that this child is surely suffering from continue to progress, hair could soon cover the girl entirely.
“The poor girl – it breaks our hearts to see her suffer like this,” the girl's father, Zhao Lai, told the press. “We were told that she couldn't have any operation anyway until she got to about five. But now she's old enough we don't have the money,” he added.
Interestingly enough, 6-year-old Zhao Xinrui was not born looking like this. On the contrary, it was only about a year ago that an otherwise regular-looking patch of discolored skin on her back started acting out and eventually caused fur to grow on the child's body.
“Doctors told us it was just a birthmark – even when it started spreading – but now it covers half her body,” grandmother Zhao Henghui explained in a statement. As if being called “catgirl” were not enough, the girl also lost her mother not too long ago.
Thus, grandmother Zhao Henghui and father 45-year-old Zhao Lai say that the woman left her child and her husband shortly after the young girl's rare skin condition took a turn for the worse and hair started growing on her body.
Doctors who have had the chance to examine Zhao Xinrui say that it might be possible to cure the girl by removing the skin that is covered in hair and replacing it with healthy tissue taken from a healthy region of her body. The problem is that the family cannot afford one such intervention.
Since this 6-year-old's story first made headlines until now, several people have agreed to make donations and help the girl get her life back. Thus, the girl now finds herself at a hospital in the city of Chengdu, the provincial capital of the Sichuan province, where she is being treated by doctors.