My Shocking Story
Television Documentary Series
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My Shocking Story is a documentary television series originally broadcast in 2008 on Discovery Channel UK.[1] It was broadcast by The Learning Channel in the United States, Discovery Channel Australia and Seven Network in Australia[2] and Discovery Channel Italy in Italy. The series documents unusual or shocking medical ailments and conditions.[3][4][5]
Episodes
Series One
- "Half-Man Half-tree
- "World's Fattest Kids"
- "My Big Foot"
- "The Man With No Face"
- "World's Smallest Mom"
- "World's Smallest Kids"
Series Two
- "Octoboy"
- "Human Spider Sisters", about the Spider Girls, conjoined twins from India
- "Treeman Meets Treeman"
- "World's Tallest Giants"
- "Albino Crisis"
- "Giant Head"
- "Treeman: Search for The Cure"
- "Human Face Transplant"
- "Real Wolf Kids"
- "Octopus Man"
- "Electric Human"
- "Freak Show Family"
- "Coma Miracle"
- "Burnt And Survived"
- "Which Sex Am I?"
- "World's Heaviest Man"
- "Reconstruct My Face"
- "Can't Stop Growing"
- "Rewire My Brain"
- "Save Me Before I'm Born"
- "Sleep Sex"
Reception
Laura Brown of the Sunday Times called the series "spectacular as it chronicles the lives of patients with unusual medical conditions".[6] The Age television critic Brad Newsome praised as "wonderful" the moments during which Dede and Zainal, two people afflicted with warts, meet.[7] Kerrie Murphy of The Australian said the show "handl[es] the topics with the sort of sensitivity unexpected from a show with that title" and called it an "affecting documentary".[8][9]
