10 longest women in the world

Here are top 10 Longest women in the world in 2013 with the stats of their height and place of birth.

1. Yao Defen (7ft 8in – 233 cm)

2. Sandy Allen (7ft 7 ¼ in. – 232 cm)

3. Malgorzata Dydek (7ft 2in – 218 cm)

4.Zainab bibi(7ft 2in – 218 cm)

5. Uljana Semjonova (7ft – 213 cm)

6. Gitika Srivastava (6ft 11in – 211 cm)

7. Malee Duangdee (6ft 10in – 208 cm)

8. Caroline Welz (6ft 9in – 206 cm)

9. Rita Miniva Besa (6ft 8in -203 cm)
10. Heather Greene (6ft 5 ½ in – 196 cm)

1. Yao Defen (7ft 8in – 233 cm)

Yao Defen (pinyin: Yáo Défēn) of China, (July 15, 1972 – November 13, 2012) was the tallest living woman, as recognized by Guinness World Records. She stood at 7 ft 8 in tall (2.33 m), weighed 179 kilograms (390 lb), and had size 26 (UK) / 78 (EU) feet. Her gigantism was due to a tumor in her

Yao Defen was born to poor farmers in the town of Liuan in the Anhui province of Shucheng County. At birth she weighed 2.8 kilograms (6.2 lb). 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. Medical doctors (who also saw her after years) properly diagnosed the illness but decided not to cure her, because her family did not have the 4000 yuan for the surgery.  After that, many companies attempted to train her to be a sports star. The plans were abandoned, however, because Yao was too weak. Because she was illiterate, since 1992 Defen earned a living by traveling with her father and performing.

Yao’s giant stature was caused by a condition called acromegaly, wherein a large tumor in the pituitary gland of the brain releases too much growth hormone and causes excessive growth. Around 2002 a hospital in Guangzhou Province removed the tumor and she stopped growing.

The tumor returned and she was treated in Shanghai in 2007, but was sent home for six months with the hope that medication would reduce her tumor enough to allow surgery. The second surgery was never performed due to lack of funds.

In 2009, the TLC cable TV network devoted a whole night’s show to her. She suffered from a fall in her home and had internal bleeding of the brain. She recovered and felt some happiness after a visit from China’s tallest man, Zhang Juncai.

2.Sandy Allen

Sandy Allen
Born	Sandra Elaine Allen June 18, 1955 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died	August 13, 2008 (aged 53) Shelbyville, Indiana, United States
Cause of death	Kidney and blood infections
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1976–2008

Sandra Elaine “Sandy” Allen (June 18, 1955 – August 13, 2008) was a U.S. woman recognized as the tallest woman during her life according to Guinness World Records. She was 7’7 in height

Allen wrote a book titled Cast A Giant Shadow, and appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records since 1976. Although over the years other women have taken over the title, Allen had held it for the last sixteen years of her life. Her abnormal height was due to a tumor in her pituitary gland that caused it to release growth hormone uncontrollably. At the age of twenty-two years, she underwent surgery for the condition. Lacking this procedure, Allen would have continued to grow and suffer further medical problems associated with gigantism.

She appeared in the Academy Award-winning Italian film Il Casanova di Federico Fellini, in a TV movie called Side Show, and in a Canadian/American documentary film called Being Different. The New Zealand band Split Enz wrote a song about her, “Hello Sandy Allen,” released on their 1982 album Time and Tide. Allen never married and was reported to have never had a serious boyfriend.

In later years Allen used a wheel-chair because her legs and back could not support her tall stature in a standing position. At one point in her life, she was bedridden due to disease, causing atrophy of the muscles. Because of this limitation, she spent her last years in Shelbyville, Indiana, in a retirement center, the same one as Edna Parker, the record holder of oldest living human at the time, who actually survived Allen for a few months.

The Indianapolis Star reported that Allen’s friend and caretaker, Linda Fox, as saying that Allen had been suffering from kidney and blood infections; Allen died on August 13, 2008. A scholarship has since been dedicated in her name at Shelbyville High School.

3.Malgorzata Dydek

Małgorzata Dydek (28 April 1974 – 27 May 2011), known as Margo Dydek in the United States, was a Polish international professional basketball player. Standing 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) tall, she was famous for being the tallest professional female basketball player in the world. She played center position for the Connecticut Sun in the WNBA and was a coach for the Northside Wizards in the Queensland Basketball League.

Margo Dydek was born 28 April 1974 in Warsaw, Poland to a 6’7″ father and a 6’3″ mother. She had two sisters, her elder sister, Katarzyna (Kaska) (6’7″) used to play for the Colorado Xplosion of the now defunct ABL, and in Poland. Her younger sister, Marta Krystyna, (standing 6’6″) graduated from the University of Texas-El Paso where she played basketball, and played in Spain professionally in the 2000s.[citation needed]

She was awarded the Polish Gold Cross of Merit (1999).

In 2008, Dydek married her boyfriend, David Twigg, in Gdynia, Poland. The couple moved to live together in Brisbane, Australia.[citation needed] The couple had 2 children: David, born in April 2008; and Alexander, born in October 2010, both born in Gdansk, Poland.

4.Zainab bibi

Zainab Bibi is Pakistani tallest girl and she was subjected to severe negative censure when she was living in Pakistani Village. Along with this feature, she was also very poor women who cooked food for the village kids. She migrated to the Britain and kept herself safe and sound. She had 7 feet and 2 inches in her height measurement.

She’s 7′ 2″ (218 cm) permanently resident in Britain because she claims her height has made her a target back in Pakistan. Some website wrote she tried to kill her husband. Don’t knw whether its true of wrong.

5.Uljana Semjonova

Uļjana Semjonova (born March 9, 1952 in Zarasai, Lithuanian SSR, USSR) is a retired Soviet Latvian basketball player.Standing at 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) Semjonova was the leading women’s basketball player in the world in the 1970s and 1980s. Wearing a men’s size 21 (US) / 58 (EU) shoe, she was known for having the largest feet ever in women’s basketball. For almost all of her playing career, she played for TTT Riga, which was part of Daugava Voluntary Sports Society. With TTT, she won 15 championships in the Soviet Union and the European Champion’s Cup 15 times. Semjonova was also very dominant in international play, winning two Olympic Gold medals while playing for the USSR in 1976 and 1980 and never lost a game in official international competition.

She was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1976, and in 1993 became the first non-US woman enshrined into the Basketball Hall of Fame. She was an inaugural member of the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in the class of 1999. In 2007, she was enshrined in the FIBA Hall of Fame. During the 2007 Latvian Sportspersonality of the year award ceremony, Semjonova received the Lifetime Contribution to Sport award.

6. Gitika Srivastava (6ft 11in – 211 cm)

Gitika Srivastava is the former member of Indian National Women Basketball team. Her father, Pradeep Srivastava, is also a former basketball player and measures 7 feet 4 inches (221 cm).

7. Malee Duangdee (6ft 10in – 208 cm)

Malee Duangdee is a tall girl from Thailand with the height of 6’10 (208cm).She weight 127kg. Her feet is 32 cm.

Malee is the tallest in her village. Her height is caused by a tumor on the Pituitary Gland, behind the eye. There was 2 tries to remove the tumor, but each time it kept growing back. Her only hope is a shot at an expensive tumor shrinking drug.

Her education didnt come until she was 13 years old, cause he younger brother was too embarrased to be seen in school with her. She goes to school with students 6 years younger than her.

In the TLC documentary she was being measured to see if she is the tallest woman on earth. If she is her family will have hope of getting the tumor out for once and for all. She has to take prescription drugs to try and block the excess growth hormon,

She was measured by a man that worked for the Guinness World Record Book, where he would measure her 3x for the day and she was at the height of 6’10 on the first try and the last. She beated her nearest rival Marvadene Anderson by a few inches.

8. Caroline Welz (6ft 9in – 206 cm)

Caroline Welz (born July 6, 1986 in Potsdam, Brandenburg) is 6 feet 9 inches (206 cm) tall and one of the tallest women in Germany. Caroline is a tailor and also a part-time model. Her legs are 51 inches (130 cm) long. She wears a size 15 (US) / 48 (EU) shoe.

9. Rita Miniva Besa (6ft 8in -203 cm)

She is 6ft 8 inches (203 cm)

10. Heather Greene (6ft 5 ½ in – 196 cm)

Heather Greene is “only” 6′ 5½” (196 cm) and lives in Las Vegas