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She gets teased as the Wolf Girl or Monkey Face but 11-year-old Supatra Sasuphan from Thailand says that being given a Guinness World Record - as the world's hairiest girl - has helped her become popular with her schoolmates.

Supatra is one of just 50 known sufferers of Ambras Syndrome - caused by a faulty chromosome - to be documented since the Middle Ages, the UK Daily Mail reports.

She has thick hair growing over her face, ears, arms, legs and back.

Even laser treatment has failed to stop the hair growth.

In other ways Supatra is the same as other children her age - she loves swimming, dancing to her favourite music and playing with friends.

While she hopes for a cure one day, she says: "I'm very used to this condition. I can't feel the hair as it has always been like this".

She intends not to let her condition hold her back from living a full life.

"I like to study maths so I can be good at it and teach it to younger children so they can do it too.

"I want to become a doctor so I can help patients when they get injured."

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Feb 28, 2011

Prudence

Holy Father of God!!! Wouldn't laser treatment hair removal work for her?
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Feb 28, 2011

QueenB

Haaai am not sure wht to say...iyooooooooo mathata
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Feb 28, 2011

edi

Shame man...only God knows what she goes through day in day out...not to mention the parents..shame man.
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Feb 28, 2011

edi

Prudence they tried but it failed doll..the hair grew back even faster than before by the looks of it...i feel sorry for her
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Feb 28, 2011

Mosquer

Yho mos ke chwene straight.
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Feb 28, 2011

Kzee

OMG sorry lala go tla siama, you will get treatment one day, i wish you luck on the math studies.
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Feb 28, 2011

Xoske

iyo... wouldn't date such girl.
does she have a boy friend?
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Feb 28, 2011

Kaoheva

Jonna weeee...go senyegile kae mara...?
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Feb 28, 2011

mrsN

eyoooo, auwa hle Modimo waka!
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Feb 28, 2011

Mosquer

@Xoske
She is only 11 wena
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