The Guinness World Records adjudicator Rob Molloy (right) and doctor K Sujatha measure the height of Jyoti Amge on her 18th birthday in Nagpur yesterday
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A student in Nagpur measuring just 62.8cm (less than 2.1ft) was yesterday confirmed as the world’s shortest living woman, Guinness World Records said yesterday.
Jyoti Amge took the title as she celebrated her 18th birthday with family and friends in Nagpur, some 520km east of Mumbai.
Rob Molloy, official adjudicator for Guinness World Records, said: “She’s 62.8cm. She was measured three times over the last 24 hours as height can vary slightly according to the time of day.
“Doctors measured her in our presence at three different times, both standing up and lying down. We took an average.”
Amge, who is currently also the world’s shortest teenager, wept with joy as she was presented with a certificate watched by her father, Kisan, 55, and mother, Ranjana, 50.
The teenager, wearing a traditional sari, said: “I’m very happy to get this record.”
Molloy said he was honoured to witness the record: “It’s such a symbolic record and one of the most popular.
“I’ve worked at Guinness World Records for eight years and I feel quite proud that I was the one to oversee the presentation of the certificate.”
Amge, who has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia that has restricted her height to that of an average four-month-old baby girl, has just finished her high school exams.
“I feel grateful to be this size, after all if I weren’t this small and had not achieved these world records, I might never have been able to visit Japan and Europe and many other wonderful countries,” Amge said.
She is described by Guinness as a “budding fashionista.”
“Despite her small size, she has big plans and hopes to carve her career as a Bollywood actress and model,” the authority on record-breaking achievements said.
“Until then, like many 18-year-olds her first priority is her studies,” Guinness said.
The previous holder of the world’s shortest living woman title was 69.49cm-tall Bridgette Jordan, from the US state of Illinois, Molloy said.