These 12 women set the record for being the tallest in the world. They ually grew to amazing heights you have to see to believe!\r
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9. Rita Miniva Besa\r
This US resident measures in at 6 feet 8 inches and shes originally from Zimbabwe. She enjoys playing basketball and she is even on a team, but she isnt professional.\r
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8. Delores Pullard\r
This Louisiana native was 7 feet and 7 ½ inches. Her parents were of pretty average height with her father measuring at 5 feet 9 inches and she mother coming in at 5 feet 11 inches. She joined the circus when she was just 19 years old where her height was often mistakenly reported as 8 feet 2 inches. She died at 24 in 1971 when they tried to remove a tumor sitting on top of her pituitary gland, but there were complications with the surgery.\r
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7. Sun Fang\r
Sun Fang is the tallest woman in China at the moment and probably in the whole world. She stands at 7 feet and 3 inches and she took the title from Yao Defen after Defens death in new. She is frequently mistaken for the dead tall women because of their similar appearance. She was born in 1987 and she is still very much alive today.\r
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6. Alicia Jay\r
Alicia Jay is a game operations manager for the Golden State Warriors and she is also a style blogger. She measures in at 6 feet 6 inches and she has been dubbed the worlds tallest virgin. The 35-year-old says that she is waiting for marriage and dating has been difficult because of her extreme height. She says that she went through a lot of bullying when she was younger because of her height, but she has since grown to love it. The style blog that she runs is specifically for tall women.\r
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5. Heather Greene\r
The woman on the right may not ually be real, but youll be surprised to know that the woman on the left is. Heather Greene is a Las Vegas resident that stands at about 6 feet 5 inches and 7 feet 2 inches in her favorite pair of heels. She has been about the same height since she was 15 years old. She is considered to be one of the tallest women in the world and she is reasonably well known throughout the US. She weighs about 210 pounds and she also wears a 13 mens size shoe. It begs the question where she got those shoes. Were they specially made or they originally for men?\r
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4. Svetlana Singh\r
This Indian woman measures in at 7 foot 2 inches. She is married and her husband is just 6 feet 6 inches. Their child is abnormally tall just like his mother, though. At just 3 years old her son measured in at over 5 feet tall already. She said in an interview that he eats 20 times a day and when he was born, he was already 2 feet 2 inches tall. His father hopes that he will become a basketball player so that he can study at a college in the US and Svetlana wants her son to be the tallest man in the world someday. She works as a doctor of holistic medicine and went to college where she met her husband.\r
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3. Rumeysa Gelgi\r
This Turkish teen holds the title of one of the tallest women in the world. She is also the tallest teenager in the world. Doctors think that Gelgi was born with a rare congenital disorder that causes rapid growth throughout life, called Weaver Syndrome. She measures in at 7 feet tall and gaining the record was a huge honor in her opinion. She said that only special people gain these records and that she is excited to be one of them. Getting the record was one of her dreams. She luckily isnt expected to get any taller because she already needs a walker to get around thanks to her balance problems caused by her height. She maintains that she has made the best of her height and that it makes her feel special.\r
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2. Elisany Silva\r
This 18-year-old Brazilian model measures in at 6 feet and 9 inches tall.\r
She gained attention for her height when she was just 14 years old. Her boyfriend of three years proposed to her recently and despite the height difference, they are happy and engaged. Her fiance ually measures in at 5 feet 4 inches, but they are very much in love and Silvia is already anxious to start having children. She is afraid that she wont be able to conceive because of the tumor that she had over her pituitary gland that caused her extreme height. She is willing to adopt, though, if the pregnancy doesnt work out.\r
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1.Zeng Jinlian\r
This insanely tall Chinese woman has been the tallest woman ever in recorded medical history. There are only 17 people who have reached heights above 8 feet and Zeng is the only woman on that list. At the time of her death in 1982, she measured in at almost 8 feet 2 inches. She died when she was only 17, probably thanks to complications caused by her extreme height. She had trouble standing to her full height since she had a severely deformed spine because of her heig
