Woman With Progeria Defies Odds and Sees Aging as Privilege

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A woman with a rare aging condition called Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, found all the hope and strength to live her life to the fullest. Despite her age of 47, she looked much older than that. She explained that she didn't see this as strange. Rather, she considered this aging as 'privilege'. Since most people with progeria don't get to live past their teens, this woman already defied the odds when diagnosed at the age of 31.

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00:00To all the millions of other people that ask me this question on the daily, I am 47 years old

00:09and this year in 2025 I'm gonna be 48. But wait, there's more! Not only am I 47, I am a very unique

00:21and very rare 47. What makes me so unique and so rare, you ask? Let me tell you.

00:33There's probably actually a lot of things that make me very unique and rare, but the main conundrum

00:40is that I am the oldest known to be living with the rapid aging disease known as progeria.

00:48Well how can that be? I do not know! What I do know is that progeria affects roughly 150 people

00:56worldwide, most not living past their 15th birthday. So while everyone else is complaining

01:04about getting older, I'm happy to tell you I'm 47.

01:10What is wrong with you? What is wrong with me? I don't think anything's wrong with me.

01:20I think everything with me is pretty right. Pretty right, pretty right, pretty right, pretty right.

01:30Pretty right, pretty right, pretty right. But I will say I am different. I am different.

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