A SIX-year-old boy already looks like a wrinkled pensioner because of a rare Benjamin Button-style genetic disease.

Yernar Alibekov, from Kazakhstan, was diagnosed with a disorder known as Ehlers-Danlos syndromes a month after being born.

The first signs came right after he was born with saggy eyelids that left him scratching them all the time.

The boy’s condition has now become so bad that it left his skin sagging.

Just like in the film Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Yernar was looking like an old man even as he learned how to walk.

Mum Zibensa Tulepbergenova said a local hospital in the city of Astana, where the family live, waived their rules and agreed to perform a skin graft operation even though he was under 18.

The family could have waited to get free surgery, they decided to spend £245 to improve the quality of life of their son.

The amount was too high for Yernar’s family alone to pay so friends and relatives helped out as well.

But experts are skeptical that the surgery will significantly help in Yernar’s case.

Doctor Olga Loseva said: "This is a rare disease that happens to one in 50,000.

“The fact that the boy had surgery won’t improve his skin condition – if it is saggy it won’t change.

“The only way out is to mitigate consequences of this disease and take great care of him."

Ehlers-Dalos syndromes can lead to such complications as osteoarthritis, scoliosis, chronic pain and joint dislocation.