Meet the 2ft teenager Khagendra Thapa Magar who is just four months away from being named the world's smallest man। Excitedly awaiting his 18th birthday in October of this year, Khagendra and his family are in contact with Guinness to take the official crown from 2ft 5in He Ping Ping of China.Weighing only 10lbs, Khagendra has become something of a celebrity in his native Nepal. Villagers have dubbed him 'little Buddha'.'He was born weighing only 600 grams ,' says his mother Dhana Maya Thapa Magar, 33.'It was like watching a newly hatched chick fresh from a shell.'I admit that at first I was ashamed of him and would not leave the house, but now I only feel pride and am desperate for him to be named as the tiniest man in the world.'