‘We can’t walk but we can sing’: how three Chinese sisters with brittle bone disease created a living for themselves
They might have endured a lifetime of pain and hardship, but these three women from Chongqing know just how to make their 260,000 fans smile with their live-streamed videos
They cannot walk and have never been to school but three sisters in a rural part of southwest China have become internet stars by telling the world about their lives on a popular live-streaming platform.
Over the past five months, Peng Yan, 31, Peng Jiangqiu, 28, and Peng Jiangdan, 25 – who have brittle bone disease – spend up to six hours a day on Kuaishou.com telling stories and singing songs for their 260,000 followers, the Chongqing Evening News reported on Saturday.
The women, from Yunyang county in Chongqing, said that before they discovered live-streaming they spent most of their days lying in bed or watching television.
In each case, the disease is so severe that they were never able to go to school. But they did manage to learn to read from the captions on television programmes, the report said.
Despite their hardships, the introduction on the sisters’ channel is upbeat.
“Although we are disabled and haven’t gone to school, our souls are healthy,” it says.
