Jeanie Tomaini

Bernice Evelyn "Jeanie" Smith Tomaini was an American sideshow performer billed as "The World's Only Living Half-Girl" or "The Acrobatic Half-Girl". She was born without legs, due to sacral agenesis or phocomelia, and stood 2 ft 5 in tall. Her family started putting her on exhibit when she was as young as three years old.

Career

Jeanie and her husband Al Tomaini performed together as a "World's Strangest Married Couple" duo, like many other married couples of the traveling sideshow.
On television, she was featured in a 1992 episode of the British show The Secret Cabaret and an E! True Hollywood Story episode titled "The Murder of Lobster Boy".
She was interviewed for the 1999 documentary film ''Sideshow: Alive on the Inside.''