Some people will go to great lengths in order to break a world record. They may do something such as dribbling a basketball or trying to solve a Rubik’s cube, but there is one world record that nobody would like to have.
A teenager from India, Lalit Patidar suffers from a rare genetic condition called hypertrichosis, known as werewolf syndrome. Ever since the Middle Ages, there have only been about 50 reported cases of someone with this condition.
It is a condition that put the teenager in the world records, saying that he has the hairiest face in the world. Of course, he had to be assessed to make the world record, so he was flown to Italy to visit a trichologist.
According to the tests that were taken, he has 201.72 hairs per square centimeter of skin. This allowed him to break the world record.
Lalit took it in stride, saying that he was speechless and adding: “I don’t know what to say because I’m very happy to get this recognition.”
He also spoke with Guinness World Records, saying that students at school were afraid of him when he was a child. He said: “They were scared of me but when they started knowing me and talking to me they understood I was not so different from them, and it was just on the outside that I looked different, but I’m not different inside”
In the past, some with this condition have shaved their face but Lalit has no intentions of doing it. When people suggest that he get rid of his facial hair, he simply says: “There is not much to say to people about that. I tell them that I like how I am and I don’t want to change my look.”
He also has 265,000 followers on Instagram on one of his pages. 108,000 people subscribe to his YouTube channel, where he sometimes documents his daily life.
