Yao Defen

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yao Defen of China, (born July 15, 1972) is claimed to be the tallest living woman. The Guinness Book of World Records said Sandy Allen of the U.S. was the tallest woman until Allen''s death on August 13, 2008, but dispute Defen''s claim. She weighs two hundred kilograms (four hundred and forty pounds) and has size twenty-six (U.K.) / seventy-eight (E.U.) feet. Her gigantism is due to a tumor in her pituitary gland. Yao Defen was born to poor farmers in the town of Liuan in the Anhui province of Shucheng County. At birth she weighed 6.16 pounds. At the age of three years she was eating more than three times the amount of food that other three-year-old children were eating. When she was eleven years old she was about six feet, two inches tall. She was six feet nine inches tall by the age of fifteen years. The story of this "woman giant" began to spread rapidly after she went to see a doctor at the age of fifteen years for an illness. After that, many companies attempted to train her to be a sports star.... Mehr