Dailygist, Feb 20th, 2022 Read original Elizabeth Kadlecik, from Slovakia, was born with a rare condition called when she arrived prematurely with very hard, thick skin. Doctors gave her no chance of survival A child whose parents were told she had no chance of surviving was born with skin so thick it resembled a "turtle shell." Despite doctors' warnings, Elizabeth Kadlecik, from Slovakia, was born in June 2020 with a rare condition called harlequin ichthyosis. Children with this condition are born prematurely with very hard, thick skin covering most of their bodies. The skin forms large, diamond-shaped plates that are separated by deep cracks. “She came to this world in a thick and hard crust, like a turtle,” her mother Natalia said. She was born six weeks premature and had to be rushed to intensive care, where she spent five weeks, because her breathing became constricted because of the tight skin that wrapped so tautly that it even deformed her. Now, Elizabeth’...