Meet the two kids who will never grow up

16 & 18 ... tiny tots are teens

THIS brother and sister might look like cute primary school children but they are actually grown-up TEENAGERS aged 18 and 16.

Shockingly Azad Singh and his sister Laxmi Yadav have not grown at all since they were five or six and still look like little kids.

See incredible pics of the teen tots below:

Neither of the pair, who live in Haryana, India, have been through puberty due to a rare hormone disorder.

Azad is just 3ft tall but is studying for A-Levels in English and Maths with the help of a tutor, and Laxmi, who is 3ft 3ins, is at high school taking the equivalent of her GCSEs.

Mates ... Azad with his school chums

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The pair face being trapped in children's bodies for their rest of their lives as treatment in the form of hormone injections would normally be given before the age of 16 or 17.

A simple, one-year, course of hormones costing just £18 per day could have allowed them to grow in height and develop sexually.

But the teens parents have always been too poor to fund the injections.

The pair now live in the constant care of mum Manju Bala, dad Bahadur Singh, a casual labourer, and sister Suman Yadav, 12, who is normal height.

Azad, who wants to train as an engineer, said: “I’m taking my exams in April. I’m doing a lot of revision and hard work.

Drive ... tiny Azad takes the wheel

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“When I go out, such as to walk to my tutor’s house, my mum has to come with me.

“People think I’m still a kid and need looking after.”

He added: “If Laxmi or I go out alone, people stare and gather round us. Some unkind people even shout names at us in the street. So we normally have our parents or sister Suman with us.

“I cannot hang out with boys my age, because they say I cannot keep up with them. But I have two friends at school who spend time with me, and don’t mind that I’m small.”

Laxmi added: “When we were younger our parents had to change our school because the other kids laughed at us because of our size.”

Devoted mum Manju said: “I’m very protective of my children. If I do not accompany Azad when he goes out, people throw things at him on his bike, and might harm him.”

She explained: “When Azad and Laxmi were very young, they were the same size as other children. We didn’t realise anything was wrong until Azad was about five and we noticed he stopped growing.

“When Laxmi also reached five, she’d stopped growing too. We took them to the doctor but he had no idea what was wrong with them.

“Over the years we’ve been referred to many hospitals, but they all wanted payment for any treatment.

“We went to hospitals in Kalavati, Gangaram, but everywhere they were asking for huge money for the treatment. We were not able to afford it, so we had to leave.”

She added: “Once we looked into selling our house to get 15,000 rupees (2,910 pounds) for treatment. But the doctors at Gangaram Hospital could not guarantee us that the injections would work by this stage as Azad and Laxmi were older, so we decided no to go ahead.”

Finally, last year, the family were offered a lifeline by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Dehli, who looked into providing free treatment for the brother and sister.

But when the Azad and Laxmi arrived at the hospital, crowds of patients, visitors, and even people from the street went into to the ward to stare at them.

“We could not face all those people,” said Laxmi. “It was too frightening for Azad and me. We felt we would rather stay as we were than go through that.

“We decided we did not want the treatment, as doctors said there was only about a 40 to 50 per cent chance it would work.”