Jasmine Burkitt

Jasmine Emily Wakefield-Burkitt (26 November 1993 - 28 June 2022), who went by the name Jazz, was an English woman with dwarfism. She rose to fame after appearing in the BBC Three documentary entitled “Small Teen, Bigger World” in 2010 to share her experience of being a teenager with dwarfism. The documentary also covered her work as a carer for her mother Beverly. Her mother, who also appeared in the BBC Three show, had a rare form of dwarfism and died in 2014.  
Burkitt published an autobiography, Growing Pains: An Inspirational True Story of Growing Up Small in a Big World, in May 2013.
She took her own life on 28 June 2022.
 
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