Star of TLC's "Little People, Big World" to Speak April 5

Amy Roloff, who holds down two jobs, runs a household with a husband and four children, and is a star of TLC’s “Little People, Big World,” will speak about being a little person in a big world at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at Illinois State University.

Roloff’s appearance is free and open to the public in Braden Auditorium and is sponsored by the University Program Board. 

Roloff’s dwarfism is the result of the most frequently diagnosed cause of short stature, achondroplasia (one per 26,000 to 40,000 births), a genetic condition that results in disproportionately short arms and legs.   Her husband, Matt, and one of her twin sons are also little people.  Their other three children are of average size.