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Minnie The Bird Girl Woolsey

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Minnie "The Bird Girl" Woolsey

Birth
Rabun County, Georgia, USA
Death
1960 (aged 79–80)
Burial
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She would grow up to be a short women with sparse hair, skinny legs, large ears, and a beaked nose. She was said to have looked like a bird with a brain to match. Woolsey made herself up for the act. She suffered from Virchow-seckel syndrome, or bird-headed dwarfism. She worked for many years at Coney Island and with Ringling Bros. She was also in the movie "FREAKS" made in 1932.
She would grow up to be a short women with sparse hair, skinny legs, large ears, and a beaked nose. She was said to have looked like a bird with a brain to match. Woolsey made herself up for the act. She suffered from Virchow-seckel syndrome, or bird-headed dwarfism. She worked for many years at Coney Island and with Ringling Bros. She was also in the movie "FREAKS" made in 1932.

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