World's "ugliest woman" buried in Mexico 150 years after her death

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World's "ugliest woman" buried in Mexico 150 years after her death

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The "ugliest woman in the world" was buried in her native northern Mexico on Tuesday, more than 150 years after her death and a tragic life spent exhibited as a freak of nature at circuses around the world. Born in Mexico in 1834, Julia Pastrana suffered from hypertrichosis and gingival hyperplasia, diseases that gave her copious facial hair and a thick-set jaw. These features led to her being called a "bear woman" or "ape woman". During the mid-1850s, Pastrana met Theodore Lent, a U.S. ...

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