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Julia Pastrana: The Ugliest Woman In The World Buried 153 Years After Her Death

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Feb 18, 2013 – Mexican Ape Woman, Julia Pastrana: The Ugliest Woman In The World Buried 153 Years After Her Death In Mexico

The “ugliest woman in the world” was buried in her native northern Mexico on Tuesday, more than 150 years after her death and a tragic life spent exhibited as a freak of nature at circuses around the world.

Born in Mexico in 1834, Julia Pastrana suffered from hypertrichosis and gingival hyperplasia, diseases that gave her copious facial hair and a thick-set jaw. These features led to her being called a “bear woman” or “ape woman”.


During the mid-1850s, Pastrana met Theodore Lent, a U.S. impresario who toured the singing and dancing Pastrana at freak shows across the United States and Europe before marrying her.

In 1860, Pastrana died in Moscow after giving birth to Lent’s son, who inherited his mother’s condition. The son died a few days later, and Lent then toured with the mother and son’s embalmed remains. After changing hands over the ensuing decades, both bodies ended up at the University of Oslo in Norway.

“Imagine the aggression and cruelty of humankind she had to face, and how she overcame it. It’s a very dignified story,” said Mario Lopez, the governor of Sinaloa state who lobbied to have her remains repatriated to her home state for burial.

“When I heard about this Sinaloan woman, I said, there’s no way she can be left locked away in a warehouse somewhere,” he said.

Crowds flocked to the small town of Sinaloa de Leyva on Tuesday to pay their respects to Pastrana, who was buried in a white coffin garlanded with white roses.

“The mass was beautiful,” said New York-based Mexican artist Laura Anderson Barbata, who has led a nearly decade-long campaign to have Pastrana returned to Mexico for a proper Catholic burial. “I was very moved. In all these years I’ve never felt so full of different emotions.”

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11 Comments

11 Comments

  1. ibrahim wada

    February 18, 2013 at 9:57 AM

    may her soul rest in peace.by the way,who is her deputy?

  2. ebugliemo nnadi

    February 18, 2013 at 10:21 AM

    oo my ᅫᅫᅫ. in who’s image.but american’s are crazy dude’s, they can do any thing for money. ok now.conbine Oᅫᅫ j with her see what their son will be.

  3. innocentia ugonna

    February 18, 2013 at 11:22 AM

    hw can her remains be left 4 so long? Dat is pure wickednes

  4. Justice O Obochi

    February 18, 2013 at 8:57 PM

    May hr soul rest im peace,bt i doubt if sh s d ugliest wman, i hv sum1 wh cn compite wt hr.

  5. Aliu murphy

    February 18, 2013 at 9:54 PM

    How true is dis news

  6. Olajare

    February 18, 2013 at 10:53 PM

    May ha soul rest in peace,God kw d best.

  7. ohia

    February 19, 2013 at 9:18 AM

    This white people the keep recordooooooo

  8. Kings

    February 19, 2013 at 9:29 AM

    Dem don use her do experiment finish cum rememba say dey wan burry am. Americans 2 much joor. KINGS.

  9. John

    February 20, 2013 at 9:13 AM

    May her gentle soul rest in peace

  10. Ayeesha

    February 20, 2013 at 6:47 PM

    pipo can be wicked but this is too inhuman, Really Americans are just sick heads.

  11. SHAWTY

    April 4, 2014 at 3:06 AM

    Are you guys crazy? She looks pretty cool If you ask me!! :D

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