Tallest Women in the World
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Before she died in August 2008, Sandra Allen was identified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's tallest woman. Standing at 7 ft 7 1/4", Allen, who was born in Chicago, U.S.A, developed a tumour in her pituitary gland when she was very young causing uncontrollable hormone growth.
Many though, identified Yao Defen from China as the world's tallest female although her actual height was disputed. Like Allen, Defen had a tumour which caused her to grow to a massive height. By the age of eleven she had already reached 6 ft 2".
Both women have suffered major health problems. Allen had to use a wheelchair because her body couldn't support her gigantic frame and was prone to infections and breathing difficulties plus she suffered from diabetes and kidney failure. Defen can only sit up straight for an hour and suffers from heart disease, hypertension, osteoporosis and poor nutrition.
Allen was 53 when she passed away at a nursing home in Indiana. She appeared in the movies Side Show and Fellini's Casanova which won an Academy Award for best costume in 1976. She also appeared on Being Different, The World's Tallest Woman and Me, Extraordinary People and Inside Extraordinary Humans : The Science of Gigantism.
When Allen was 22 years old, she had surgery to abort her growth. If not she would have continued growing.
Defen who was born in 1972 is now classed as the tallest woman in the world at a height of 7 ft 9". She still lives in a small rural village in China with her mother.
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