Fair touts world’s smallest woman

The world’s smallest woman is at the Warren County Fair, according to a trailer that sits on the midway.

Haiti resident Alizabeth Jean, who is in America on a six-month work visa, is available for fair-goers to see ‘ for a small fee of course.

She spoke very little English in an interview with the Standard and communicated mainly through an interpreter, her cousin Alix Jean. She declined to have her picture taken, indicating people wouldn’t be as inclined to pay to see her if they could see her picture in the newspaper.

Among the information revealed by Alizabeth in her interview is that she’s the proud mother of a normal-sized, 12-year-old girl. She comes from a family of four brothers and two sisters, all who are normal size. Likewise, her parents are also average height, she says.

As for being as short as 29 inches, that’s certainly up for debate. She didn’t stand up during the interview and her cousin said she rarely uses her legs. She gets around mainly by wheelchair.

Alizabeth said her size isn’t a major inconvenience and doesn’t present many problems, although she is largely inactive. Her main hobby is sewing as she makes all her own clothes.

She joined Cumberland Valley Shows in June and has been traveling with the carnival ever since. She is working through Four C Productions, a company based between Tampa and Sarasota, Fla.

Four C representative Laura Constantine is traveling with Alizabeth and is staying at the fairgrounds. She’s been in the carnival business for 35 years, getting her start with an 860-pound fat man.

‘We had Zambora a few years ago, the girl who changed into a gorilla,’ said Constantine. ‘That was a really popular side show, but it took a lot of people to pull off. That was an illusion, but Alizabeth isn’t. She’s really that small.’

For anyone who wants to get a glimpse of the woman proclaimed to be the world’s smallest, her trailer is located next to the Boyd Christian food booth at the beginning of the midway.