10 Real Life Giant Women You Won’t Believe Are Real

Since we’ve already covered the male giants, it’s only fair that the fair sex also gets a shot at this huge undertaking. All size jokes aside, the ladies are up there with the dudes (promise, that was the last one), measuring well over 2m. If you’re even a little bit curious about who are/were the 10 tallest women on earth – just keep reading!

Yao Defen (China)
Yao Defen’s height was 7’8” (2.34 m), which granted her the official status of the tallest woman in the world. Yao was born in a poor Chinese family, and started off as a normal-sized kid, right until she was consuming three times more food than the rest of the kids. By eleven she reached 6’2” (1.88 m), which is about my height, by the way. Like in most of these giants, her incredible height was caused by a tumor in her pituitary gland. Yao managed to live a more or less happy life and died at the age of 40, in 2012.
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Margo Dydek (Poland)
Margo Dydek was a famous Polish basketball player, measuring 7’2” (2.18 m) tall. Dydek is currently the tallest professional female basketball player in history. Sadly she suffered a heart attack in 2011 and died, leaving her husband and two sons on their own in Brisbane, Australia.
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