Julia Pastrana (previously at Neatorama) is the topic of a well...  ...well written article at The Public Domain Review. Pastrana was an indigenous Mexican woman born in 1834 with...  ...her and her mother being shunned by their tribe. Julia was born with hypertrichosis terminal...

Julia Pastrana , once known as "the ugliest woman in the world,"...  ..."a hybrid between human and orangutan." However, Pastrana sang with a beautiful voice and could speak sever...  ...heodor Lent, who eventually married her. In 1860, Pastrana gave birth in Moscow to a son who...