Hairy Child is happily married
Chen Qiwen was born in 1984 in a small Chinese village Zhangpu County, Fujian Province. He suffered from a rare condition caused by a hormonal imbalance – his body, face were covered with thick, dark hair, he was cruelly dubbed a freak and mocked as the ‘Hairy Child’. But as he grew he gradually won the locals over with his positive attitude and hard work ethic. Since leaving school Chen Qiwen has opened his own shop selling air conditioner units in Jinjiang City where he is said to a employ more than 100 staff and earns a very comfortable living. He is now happily married to wife Liang Fulan after meeting in 2011. The pair married last year before welcoming their daughter. The young father says he is now content with his life as a ‘successful career and a happy family have made it easy for him’.

Hairy Child is happily married

Extraordinary appearance or bodies have obsessed humankind since antiquity. The nineteenth century ‘‘freak’’ was known as a ‘‘monster’’ in ancient times and considered to be a prodigy. The birth of such an individual, as with natural events such as comets and earthquakes, was thought to portend grave or disastrous events. Stone-age cave drawings record monstrous births, while prehistoric grave sites evince elaborate ritual sacrifices of such bodies.

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