January 16, 2After the death of the 3-meter-tall Internet celebrity "Giant Xiao Mo", the news of the family's refusal to receive the ashes shocked the whole network.
Netizens felt heartache and pity for this unfortunate girl.
But what people don't know is that there was once a giantess who was even more tragic than Xiao Mo.
Yao Defen, known as the "first giantess", is 236 meters, ten centimeters taller than Yao Ming.
Such an astonishing height made her successfully break the Guinness World Record and become the tallest woman in the world.
However, such glory did not bring her any good, but made her suffer a lot.
not only suffered from the eyes of the people around him, but was also frantically "squeezed" by the boss of the troupe.
It can be said that Yao Defen dreams of becoming shorter.
With this rare height in the world, what kind of painful life did Yao Defen experience?
What is the reason for her height to "grow wildly"?
Yao Defen's height and weight have risen much higher than ordinary people.
The average child grows about six to seven centimeters in height every year during the ** development period.
Yao Defen was already more than two meters tall when he was 15 years old.
This huge difference in height is, of course, also a difference in growth hormone levels and energy intake.
Yao Defen's meal at this age is already the sum of several adults.
It takes six bowls of fried noodles to barely fill your stomach.
The family lives in Lu'an, Anhui Province, and neither of their parents has a regular income**.
In order to reduce the burden on the family, she had to deliberately reduce the amount of food and keep it almost like a normal person.
In the long run, I always don't have enough to eat.
But that's it, and the family can't make ends meet.
So her father decided to send her to a song and dance troupe in Suzhou to perform.
Because of her impressive height, she performs as a special type of actor.
People who come to see her performances always exclaim in amazement, and the income of the song and dance troupe has increased because of her.
Everyone in the family felt that life was going to get better and better, but only Yao Defen knew the pain in his heart.
The boss here is very harsh on her, and the high-intensity performance makes her often feel exhausted and wants to rest, but the boss never allows it.
And because performing in a cabaret troupe is not simple.
Because of his height, he is always prone to injury when he moves, and his boss never asks.
After hurting too much, it will inevitably affect the performance effect.
But whenever Yao Defen proposed to go to the hospital to see a doctor, all he got was cynicism and even intimidation from the boss.
He dragged Yao into the mountains twice to scare her and make her more submissive.
Yao Defen never said to his family, he only hoped that the contract would end soon so that he could return home.
This experience in the song and dance troupe made her feel like a monster to be watched.
The personality also becomes more inferiority complex and reluctance to speak.
The only good thing is that you don't have to deliberately control the amount of food you eat here, and you can eat enough at every meal.
Yao Defen can eat half a rice cooker of rice at every meal at this time, and his height continues to grow.
Fortunately, the one-year contract finally ended, and Yao Defen was able to return home.
Not to mention the accumulation of injuries in the song and dance troupe, because of the high-intensity training, she always has back pain and faints at every turn.
Because of the boss's ignorance, Yao Defen could not be treated in time.
When I got home, I thought that this situation would be alleviated.
But the fact is that the signs of her fainting are even more serious, and it eventually becomes very difficult to walk on the ground.
Seeing her daughter's painful appearance, her mother Wei Xianying was particularly distressed, so she decided to send her daughter to the hospital for treatment.
The doctors at the hospital conducted a thorough physical examination for Yao Defen and formulated a detailed surgical plan.
The pituitary tumor in her brain is unusually large and the risk of surgery is high.
Fortunately, with God's favor, Yao Defen's operation was a success.
But because of the level of medical care at that time.
The first excision was not thorough enough, and some of it was still left in her brain.
Fortunately, after this, her height growth was controlled, and people were able to walk on the ground.
Her situation has also begun to attract attention from all walks of life, and the Anhui Provincial Livelihood Institute has also sent people to check on her.
It didn't take long for the decision to send Yao Defen to a hospital in Shanghai for further treatment.
In 2006, Yao Defen came to Shanghai Ruijin Hospital.
The well-wishers in the society made a fundraiser for her, and everything was going in a good direction.
The doctors of Ruijin Hospital came up with the most complete surgical plan in the shortest possible time.
After all, her situation is no longer optimistic.
The surgery was very successful, and the problems of both pituitary gland tumors and growth hormone were effectively controlled.
But because of Yao Defen's height problem and lack of nutrition, her physique is very "delicate".
The doctor repeatedly told you to be careful not to have bumps.
Unfortunately, three years later, in the first half of 2009, Yao Defen unfortunately fell at home and suffered a head injury and was bleeding.
Despite being treated in a timely manner, she was incapacitated and bedridden.
Her mother took care of her day after day.
Until one day in 2012, Yao Defen lost his vital signs, and the fate of a lifetime of suffering came to an end.
Yao Defen was 41 years old and 2At 36 meters, she was the tallest woman in the world at the time.
She has suffered all her life, and God has not been fair to her.
Since she was a child, she has been suffering from the eyes of others.
In 1972, Yao Defen was born in Shucha Town, Lu'an, Anhui Province, and his parents were honest farmers.
At that time, eggs and milk were still scarce, and children's height was generally slow.
But Yao Defen does not seem to be affected by malnutrition, and his height has been growing like mushrooms after a rain.
Before she entered puberty, she was already about the same height as an adult.
Because people at that time were generally not highly educated.
Regarding Yao Defen's obviously problematic height, the family only thought that she was developing early, and they didn't think about anything else.
Although the family felt that it was nothing, Yao Defen himself could not raise his head.
Because she is so tall than her peers, no one wants to play with her, and her childhood was lonely.
Walking down the street, everyone will always look at her with curiosity.
She always walks with her head down, for fear of colliding with other people's eyes, which also makes her develop a withdrawn and silent character.
By the time she was fifteen years old, she was already over two meters tall.
The provincial basketball team knew about her existence, and such a height is undoubtedly a good seedling to play basketball.
In this way, the family happily sent Yao Defen into the women's basketball team.
But playing basketball isn't just about height.
After a few days of training here, the coach found that Yao Defen only grew tall and not physical.
After a short period of training, I started to run out of breath.
Everyone thought it was because of her lack of exercise, so they began to focus on physical training for her.
It doesn't matter if you don't practice, Yao Defen even began to faint after practicing.
This made the basketball team dare not keep her in the team anymore, so they quickly contacted Yao Defen's family and sent her home.
After returning home, Yao Defen was taken to the hospital by her family for examination, which solved her height puzzle.
It turned out that Yao Defen's height grew crazy because of "gigantism".
This condition is very rare and involves a pituitary tumor in the brain.
This will cause her to secrete a large amount of growth hormone, and her height will naturally be much taller than that of ordinary people.
If Yao Defen's family could have noticed the child's abnormality at the beginning, they would have intervened with medication as early as possible.
That height is not enough to interfere with normal life.
Although this condition is very rare in the world, many people still suffer from it.
Among them are some famous basketball players.
Like Yao Defen, there is also basketball player Sun Mingming, known as the "second generation of Yao Ming".
His height is about the same as Yao Defen, 232 meters.
In order to be able to continue his career, Sun Mingming once had to suspend training and undergo ** in the United States.
Compared to him, Yao Defen is unlucky.
The lack of health awareness of the people around her and the limitations of economic conditions made her miss the best time.
In the forty years she has been a "giant", she has rarely been able to wear well-fitting clothes and shoes.
When other girls are looking for beauty, she just wants to be comfortable.
Since her story has been known by more and more people.
Wessels, a shoe factory owner from Germany, sent her three pairs of size 78 leather shoes.
This allowed her to solve the problems she had been having.
Although such a disease is far away from us, I hope that you will not look at them in a strange light.
May all those who are afflicted by this disease be able to receive treatment as soon as possible.
Children with gigantism grow abnormally tall not only into adulthood.
They can also look huge different from their peers at a young age.
The standard of living today is much higher than it was in the seventies and eighties.
The children, who were not short of meat, eggs and milk, were naturally taller than people at that time.
However, parents should still pay attention to the observation and seek medical attention if their children have abnormal height growth.
Early detection and early **, don't let your momentary negligence affect your child's life.
Finally, I hope that everyone can have a healthy body and stay away from illness.