Real-life Rapunzel: Sophie Fieldhouse has fairytale hair because the medicine she takes for a rare disease makes it grow fast.
She is the little girl with long golden hair just like the fairytale heroine Rapunzel.
At just six-years-old Sophie Fieldhouse has grown her beautiful blonde locks until they reach almost to the ground.
But she also has a rare and potentially lethal form of diabetes called congenital hyperinsulinism.
It causes low blood sugar and one of the only treatments for it is a drug called Diazoxide, which makes her hair grow much quicker than normal.
Sophie was diagnosed with the condition, which affects one in 50,000 people, when she was just 18-months-old.
Sophie, from Failsworth, is one of just over a dozen children with the condition who took park in the new trial using fish oils.
They were given supplements of fish oils in the form of capsules similar to cod liver oil.
Her mum Amanda Turner, 37, said: "The condition is scary because when Sophie's blood sugar is low she we see a complete change in her.
'It's like looking at a completely different child. She gets very hungry and gets the shakes. She has to take extra snacks to school and her hair is also very long because of the treatment.
'Children have said things to her about her hair without realizing it and it isn't a nice thing to have, but the school have been very good.'
'This new trial has been brilliant and we have now been able to stop the Diazoxide, which is fantastic.
'We just hope that this treatment will soon be available to all children with congenital hyperinsulinism.'
