Jyoti Amge of "American Horror Story: Freak Show" says she always gets treated like a baby, and it's tiresome.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Amge, who holds the record for world's smallest woman on Guinness World Record 2011, shared that she always gets treated like a baby because of her 23 inches of height, and that she is tired of it.
Amge says that she is treated differently from when she is only seen on television by fans of the show. "When people see me on TV, they become very happy because they don't have to interact with me," says the Indian actress. "When they start interacting with me they ask me questions like I'm a baby," Amge further details.
According to Daily Mail, the 20-year old star of "American Horror Story: Freak Show" shares she is often asked questions, treated, and held, like a baby. "That's what they do wrong, really," Amge, who plays Ma Petite on the show, says through a Hindi translator.
People's treatment of Amge is because of her kind of dwarfism called achondroplasia. Daily Mail says that the average height of people with this condition is 48 inches, which makes Amge small even among those with the same condition. In reference, Entertainment Online says she is "only eight inches taller than an Emmy award."
When asked about her opinion on playing a role in a show titled "Freak Show," Amge's translator says she is not put off because "nobody is a freak here."
Entertainment Online mentions that on last week's episode, Amge's character, Ma Petite, met an unfortunate end. However, she is welcome to make reappearances on the show, adds the article.
Amge worked alongside Evan Peters, Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Emma Roberts, Kathy Bates, and Angela Bassett for the show's fourth season. Aside from Amge, other characters in the show also have "distinctive physical characteristics," including Erika Ervin, the "world's tallest model" standing tall at 6 feet and 8 inches, and Mat Fraser, who has phocomelia, a kind of malformation of the limbs.
The current season of "American Horror Story" is set in the 1950s in Jupiter, Florida. Meanwhile, for those who are yet to catch up on other seasons of the show, Cleveland reports "American Horror Story: Coven" coming to Netflix on December 5.
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