Doctors said they shouldn’t have children. Only the third one was born healthy

Charla Kate, 121 cm tall, suffers from dwarfism, and her husband, Cullen Adams, suffers from acromic dysplasia, which is also characterized by short stature. When the couple started planning their family enlargement, doctors advised them not to take this step. The Adams, however, took the risk and welcomed three children into the world. The youngest of them did not inherit their parents’ ailments.

1. Charli Kate and Cullen Adams decided to enlarge the family despite the recommendation that they should not have children, e.g. due to the high risk of their death shortly after birth
2. Their firstborn daughter Tilba inherited dwarfism from her mother and the other Tully inherited acromic dysplasia from her father
3. In order to fight stereotypes about people with short stature, Charla Kate set up a profile on Instagram, which shows the life of her family. It has over 368 thousand. followers
4. You can find more such stories on the TvoiLokony home page

Cullen and Charli Kate met at the World Dwarf Games training camp in Australia in 2012 and have since become virtually inseparable. The feeling that united them quickly turned into love and led to a wedding carpet. The couple decided that they wanted to become parents, but the doctors advised against them. Charli Kate suffers from achondroplasia, which is a form of dwarfism, and Cullen suffers from a rare acromic dysplasia, which together created a great risk.

Without listening to the doctors’ recommendations, the couple decided to have offspring. The Adams have three children, two of whom have inherited short stature from them, as reported on the site «Aleteia».

Charli Kate fights Instagram stereotypes about people with dwarfism

Before the first pregnancy, doctors informed the Adams that there was a 25 percent chance that their baby would not be short of stature, and the risk of his death shortly after birth was assessed as high.

“Cullen’s short stature and mine are due to different genetic defects. There are basically four possibilities that can happen: Our baby may be of normal height or born with my achondroplasia or Cullen’s acromic dysplasia. There is also the possibility that the baby will develop both defects, which means that it will not survive long after birth, Charli Kate explained.

Charli Kate got pregnant for the first time in 2015. After the research, medical staff informed her that the baby should be born healthy, although he may have back problems. The first pregnancy was uneventful and the couple welcomed a daughter named Tilba into the world. Like her mother and grandmother (grandfather is of medium height), the girl was born with dwarfism.

The girl was developing properly, but at school she had to deal with the ostracism of her peers who did not spare her any unpleasantness due to her height. The couple’s second child, Tully, inherited a Cullen genetic defect, while the third, born in 2020, Rip has neither achondroplasia nor acromic dysplasia.

To combat the stigmatization of people with shortcomings, Charli Kate has started an Instagram profile documenting her family’s life, emphasizing that “dwarfism doesn’t have to hold you back”.

– Everyone loves to see our family photos, we always get lovely comments from most people. (There are also negative entries) I don’t take revenge and I’ve learned to just ignore and block anyone who offends us. (…) We both have parents who always supported us and did not justify us with the disease. And we have never allowed our dwarfism to be an excuse for us not to do good, Charli Kate Adams explained.