Yao Defen

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Yao Defen ; Chinese : 姚德芬, Yao Defen (born July 15, 1972 in China , † November 13, 2012 in Shucha , Anhui , China) was a Chinese record holder. While their height was always given in Chinese media reports as 2.36 meters, the Guinness Book of Records names 2.33 meters.

Life

Yao Defen had a tumor in her pituitary gland, which has caused abnormal growth in height since childhood. At the age of eleven she was already 1.85 m. At 15, she was over two meters tall. As a teenager she learned to play basketball. After she passed out in the process, the doctors found a brain tumor during examinations that caused an overproduction of growth hormones . Her parents, poor farmers from the Chinese province of Anhui, sold her out of money to a traveling circus , where she was shown as an attraction. Later, the 200 kg woman returned to her mother.

In 2006, Yao Defen, whose health was judged to be life-threatening, had a tumor removed in Shanghai . In 2009 she suffered serious head injuries in a fall and has been bedridden ever since.

The shoes of Yao Defen were made by the German specialist Georg Wessels from Vreden in the Münsterland region (size 57, other sites mention size 78, but without a credible source). Yao Defen died on November 13, 2012 in her home village of Shucha, Anhui Province .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Online edition of Der Standard : “Greatest woman in the world died in China”. Accessed December 5, 2012
  2. ↑ Online edition of the Frankfurter Rundschau from December 5, 2012 . Retrieved December 5, 2012
  3. ↑ Guinness record: The largest ready-to-wear shoes in the world
  4. ↑ View: shoe size 78
  5. ↑ The Epoch Times: The Biggest Wish of Asia's Tallest Woman ( February 15, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Yao, Defen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 姚德芬 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese size record holder
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH China
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 2012
Place of death Shucha , Anhui, People's Republic of China