A big lady

A big lady

Yao Defen, the tallest women in the world stands in front of her house in Shu Cha in the North-East of China (34 years old in 2006). She mesures 2m36.










19 years ago she was diagnosed with Acromegaly – a disease resulting from a tumour on the pituitary gland causing it to pump out excess growth hormone.








Thanks to a documentary being made for a British Television programme, two of the leading doctors specialising in Acromegaly have offered to help De-Fen for free.
The doctors and the television production team have been raising money for De-Fen’s recovery and future. Yao was finaly operated with success in Shanghai in 2007. the site to help Yao Defen.









The biggest of all

Zeng Jinlian (曾金莲; 26 june 1964 – 13 february 1982) is the tallest woman who ever existed. At the moment of her death at the age of 17, in the Hunan, she was 2,48 m tall.

The giant of inner mongolia

Big and small are beautiful

Bao Xishun, the tallest man in the world, 56 years old and 2,36 m high welcomes the smallest man, He Pingping, 19 years old and 0,72m. (ph. A.P)

Bao Xishun has passed with success all the Guiness book of records tests and became the tallest man in the world by natural growth in 2006 (The Ukrainien Leonid Stadnyk is said to be taller (2m53) but his growth is due to a medical problem).




Too tall to live in the city of Shenyang where he did his classes, Bao Xingchung had to go back to his native village of Chifeng in Inner Mongolia in 1973. 30 years later, he finaly came out of the desolate plains to become a national celebrity. Here visiting Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.







With his wife Xia Shujuan, 29 years old, 1,68 m, during their wedding. (Photo Reuters, Luciana Whitaker).





A well-matched couple

The chinese giant with his wife







The hand of the giant.










The usefulness of giants is no secret. Thanks to the length of his arm Bao Xishun saves a dolphin who had swalled a bath towel.