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Julia Pastrana, a Mexican Indian woman born with congenital hypertrichosis, a condition that caused her small body to grow copious amounts of hair and an ape-like protruding mouth, was a 19th-century freak show superstar. Billed as the"baboon lady," she spent much of her life--and afterlife as an embalmed corpse--being carted around America and Europe to shock and titillate curious circus-goers and scientists. This reconstruction of her life, often told in the same theatrical, aggrandizing manner a carnival proprietor might employ to...Log In or Sign Up to Read More