Pingping He (Chinese: 何平平; b. July 1988) is a Chinese man who has been officially named by the Guinness World Records as the world's shortest man.
The 20-year old measures 73 cm (2 ft 4 in)[1] high, and is the third child to a family in Huade county, in the city of Wulanchabu in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He has two sisters, both of whom developed at normal rates and are now married. According to his father, He Yun, at birth he was as small as a palm. When it became apparent the child was growing very slowly, doctors diagnosed the cause as the bone deformity Osteogenesis Imperfecta which hinders the normal growth of bone and bodily height, although it is much more likely that He Pingping has Primordial Dwarfism.
In January 2007, He was invited to take part on a television program in Tokyo, Japan and has since then become an internet icon. Interestingly, his home of Inner Mongolia is also home to Bao Xishun, who at 2.36 metres tall was recognized as the world's tallest man until August 2007, and their televised meeting in July 2007 attracted global media attention. In May 2008 he appeared in the British Channel 4 documentary called "the world's smallest man and me" hosted by Mark Dolan. In the documentary, in which Dolan visited a further 2 'candidates,' his temperament was outlined with his refusal to be seen on camera without being paid a substantial amount. He smokes 2 packets of cigarettes every day.
Since that television program it has been verified by Guinness World Records that He is the worlds shortest man. He’s height was measured three times over the course of 10 hours before he received a certificate officially naming him as the world’s shortest living man.
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