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COMM: At five years old Charlotte Garside
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stands at just sixty eight centimetres tall and weighs little more than a newborn. But
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the youngster, once crowned the smallest girl in the world, doesn't let her tiny proportions
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stop her from having fun with her big sisters.
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EMMA: We've been told that Charlotte looks
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like a porcelain doll, she looks just like a baby in a pram. People still call her baby
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Charlotte, which riles me something chronic, because she's not a baby. She's five years
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old.
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COMM: Charlotte was born with a rare genetic
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condition called primordial dwarfism. At birth she measured just two pounds and measured
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a mere twenty five centimetres.
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EMMA: When Charlotte she was, she was extremely
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fragile. I have said she looked like a skinned rabbit but when I first ever saw her, all
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I saw was her face, because she had a little pink hat on, and she was covered in bubble
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wrap all the way up to her neck.
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COMM: Mum Emma and dad Scott were warned that
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her chances of survival were slim.
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COMM: Charlotte's family want her to live
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as normal life as possible, and her natural inquisitive nature means she in progressing
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well with her development.
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SABRINA: I think I might be a bit close with
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Charlotte than what Chloe and Sophie are, because like of how much time I spend with
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her. I just see her as a normal five year old really, just smaller than normal five
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year olds.
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COMM: And with the support of her older sisters,
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Chloe, Sabrina and Sophie, she gets to experience the same things as any five year old.
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EMMA: Life without Charlotte would be very
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dull. Everyone says, you look at her, she smiles, you smile back. It's an automatic
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reaction to smile back, because she's just so beautiful.
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MAN: What does she bring to the family?
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EMMA: A sense of fulfillment I think. Umm, she's just a lovely bubbly child.
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COMM: And with a loving family and a fighting
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spirit, Charlotte has shown the world she can conquer new heights.
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EMMA: You give him kisses, you give him a
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kiss. Good girl.