Choon Tan may be just 4ft 10in but he is already making a name for himself in the bodybuilding world.
Choon, 21, studies entrepreneurial business management at Northumbria university and works as an events manager in Newcastle – and he’s also Britain’s smallest competitive bodybuilder.
Choon found out he had a genetic birth defect – known as x-linked spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda – when he was a child.
His condition, which occurs almost exclusively in males, impairs bone growth and can cause pain and other physical complications.
Speaking to Metro.co.uk he said: ‘Finding out that I had a genetic defect and that I would not be the same as everyone else confused me as a child.
‘I didn’t feel that I… Read the full story