Jesus Aceves, Mexican 'Wolf Man' Star of Documentary Harriet Alexander - The Telegraph
go to original September 10, 2015

Trailer, Chuy, El hombre lobo (IMCINE)

A Mexican man has spoken out about his life with a rare condition which gives him excessive facial hair - saying that wolves treat him better than humans.

Jesus Aceves, 41, was born with a rare condition that means he has thick hair all over his face. Thirty members of his extended family suffer from the same condition, known as hypertrichosis.

All his life, Mr Aceves has been compared to a wolf. He told filmmaker Eva Aridjis that sometimes wolf howls follow him down the street. So a couple of years ago he went to a zoo near Mexico City in order to see one of the animals up close.

"Both of our faces are covered in hair and we both live trapped – them in the zoo and me in this body," he said. "At least the wolves treat me the same as they treat other humans."

And Chuy, the Wolf Man, a new film by a Mexican documentary maker, has opened in the central American country, depicting the lives of the family who were born with abnormal levels of facial hair.

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Related: The Struggles of the World's Hairiest Family (BBC News)

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