Kumawood Actor, Stephen Atanga, popularly known as Don Little, has revealed how he struggled with stunted growth, which lead him to attempt taking his life, after being neglected by his parents and seeing his colleagues increase in size all around him.
The actor, who revealed this in a recent chat with Angel TV, said it got to a point of his life when he had to accept the fact of his nature was what he had no power over, either to question or change thus accepting the unchangeable fact of his fate.
The twenty years old actor also disclosed that his other sisters were taller and bigger than him.
“It got to sometime my parents despised me and never cared about me because my colleagues kept increasing in size and I remained where I was. I was contemplating ending my life”,
“My other sisters are grown and bigger than me. I believe my size is the work of God which I have to be contented with. I have not made any attempt to go to the hospital to find out if there is something wrong with me medically or not. I trust God and commit everything in prayer”
A child’s growth and development can be influenced by genetics, eating habits and nutrition, sleeping patterns, endocrine function (hormones), presence or absence of chronic illness.