Posted on 02/21/2024 9:23:40 PM PST by Red Badger
THE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE TWO IS MORE THAN SIX FEET!
When the world's tallest man meets the world's shortest woman, the moment demands a photo op.
That's what happened on Monday in California when Sultan Kosen of Turkey, measuring at a neck-craning 8 foot and 2 inches, reunited with the diminutive Jyoti Amge of India, who's recorded at just 2 feet and 0.7 inches — and the meeting was documented by Turkey’s state-run news outlet Anadolu, as reported by The Independent.
In a testament to the incredible variation of human body types, in one shot the 30-year-old Amge even poses balancing on the 41-year-old Kosen's knee.
In another photo, Kosen remains seated in a chair while Amge, on the floor, doesn't even reach the height of his knees. Kosen holds up one of his colossal shoes as another point of comparison.
The two, separated in height by more than six feet, previously met for a photoshoot in Egypt six years ago. In that photo, they posed in front of the Giza Pyramids.
Both Kosen and Amge's unique statures are due to medical quirks.
Kosen, who has his record immortalized in the Guinness World Records, can credit his extraordinary height to pituitary gigantism, a rare condition in which children's bodies are flooded with excessive growth hormone from their pituitary gland.
A tumor is usually the cause behind pituitary gigantism, which was the case for Kosen, who started growing by leaps and bounds at the age of 10. Treatment for gigantism includes surgery and radiation therapy for the tumor plus medication.
In the case of Amge, an actress who also holds a Guinness record, she has achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism generally mostly caused by a gene mutation or inherited from a parent with achondroplasia.
In achondroplasia, a protein called fibroblast growth factor receptor doesn't function normally and decreases bone growth, resulting in a lower stature. Treatment for this condition usually revolves around managing drawbacks with the condition such as monitoring the health of children's spine.
In any case, shout out to this pair for striking up a friendship that's resulted visibility for both conditions, as well as some of the most incredible photos we've ever seen.
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I wonder how tall the Nephilim were?
Just don’t ask me how they would have children.
The same way everyone else does. Oh wait, that might be a little hard. 😆😝🤗😀
Wewll, if they can keep Biden going a little longer, he might win the title of biggest human with the most midget brain...
Are you sure Brandon has a brain at all?
Thought that’s what we were looking at???
LOL! I got that smallest giant/ largest midget bit from a W.C. Fields movie.
Turned out he was just a guy named Archibald Gouldie riding with the gimmick. I knew it was bull because he never pulled
these vicious weapons out from under the ring.
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She doesn’t look at all dwarfish to me. She looks like a small child except for her facial features.
ping for reference
While fairly certain many of those banks managed to steal a lot there may be a big chunk left about.
Yes I heard he had a habit of doing that.
Lord only knows where all the money ended up.
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