{"id":26248,"date":"2023-09-05T15:13:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/?p=26248"},"modified":"2023-09-05T15:13:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:13:27","slug":"ukrainian-dwarf-who-pretended-to-be-kid-celebrates-20th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/world-news\/ukrainian-dwarf-who-pretended-to-be-kid-celebrates-20th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian dwarf who pretended to be kid celebrates 20th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Ukrainian dwarf who &quot;pretended to be a kid&quot; has celebrated their &quot;20th birthday&quot;, and has received a collection of gifts from fans.<\/p>\n<p>Natalia Grace, allegedly 20, took to Instagram on her The Mans Family account to celebrate the special occasion in a &quot;live birthday reveal&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>A video of Natalia and her family was shared, with her adopted mum, Cynthia Mans, calling her the &quot;birthday girl&quot; as well-wishers piled on to celebrate the big day, which saw the Ukrainian turn 20. <\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE: Ukrainian dwarf who &apos;pretended to be kid to terrorise adoptive parents&apos; breaks silence <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Natalia made headlines earlier this year after her adoptive parents believed she was just six-years-old, but soon found the &quot;sociopathic adult&quot; was actually suffering from dwarfism and had been &quot;making threats&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Michael and Kristina Barnett had lobbied a court back in 2012 to take the alleged youngster to court.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article30864517.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/374648123_821915472902231_8642971696948178964_nheic.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A three-part documentary investigation series soon followed, with The Curious Case of Natalia Grace alleging the Ukrainian national had convinced a family she was a child.<\/p>\n<p>Natalia had been adopted by Michael and Kristina Barnett back in 2010, but the now 20-year-old denies any wrongdoing and says her adoptive parents spun a lie. <\/p>\n<p>She said at the time: &quot;It&apos;s very frustrating to hear everything that&apos;s being said from Kristine and Michael. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;And because I already don&apos;t know who I am and I want to know who I am and what happened to me, but I&apos;m hearing all this stuff that never actually happened from Kristine and Michael.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article30864525.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/1_Family-breakdown-as-adopted-kid-turns-out-to-be-23-year-old-adult-sociopath.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure data-mod=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article30864067.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s458\/0_MAIN_BTK.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p> BTK killer&apos;s sick drawings released for first time as cops hope to uncover more murders<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/@trinitymirrordigital\/chameleon-branding\/publications\/dailystar\/img\/logo-schema-dailystar.png\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Natalia is now celebrating her allegedly 20th birthday, despite rumours that she was actually born in 1989 and not 2003, which would make her 34. <\/p>\n<p>Cynthia Mans took Natalia in after finding her living life in an abandoned apartment in Lafayette, Indiana, after the Barnetts moved away to Westfield. <\/p>\n<p>One comment on the birthday post read: &quot;She deserves the world&#8230; so happy she has you to live\u2026Happy Birthday !!!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Claims from the Barnett couple, now separated, were dismissed by prosecutors at the time of the 2012 court case after they found Ukrainian documents to support Natalia&apos;s original birth date of September 4, 2003. <\/p>\n<p>Although prevented from displaying the evidence in court, prosecutors claim they tracked Natalia&apos;s birth mother in Ukraine, Journal &amp; Courier reported at the time. <\/p>\n<p><b><i>For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking <\/i><\/b><b><i>here<\/i><\/b><b><i>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/ukrainian-dwarf-who-pretended-kid-30864119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ukrainian dwarf who &quot;pretended to be a kid&quot; has celebrated their &quot;20th birthday&quot;, and has received a collection of gifts from fans. Natalia Grace, allegedly 20, took to Instagram on her The Mans Family account to celebrate the special occasion in a &quot;live birthday reveal&quot;. 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