Photo: Asia's Tallest Woman (someone hold me, I'm going to have nightmares)

Reuters via Yahoo! ^ | 3/17/06

[Cobra64]

How tall is that in America?

The same height as she is in China. You can look at the u/m conversion from metric to English in the back of a dictionary.

[popdonnelly]

"She looks taller than that"

I think Reuters is Photoshopping again.

[jazusamo]

Thank you ever so much, you are one officious dude.

[GWfan]

It is not acromeglia. Acromeglia is a condition where the hands, feet, head keep growing after the epiphyseal plates are closed. In other words, the body parts grow thicker,not longer. The person doesn't become taller due to acromegly..

This lady in the pic has giantism. Sometimes it is simpler than you think.

[mystery-ak]

YIKES!...is right.....

[Diddle E. Squat]

I bet Cheap Trick wasn't singing about her...

[toddlintown]

"How tall is that in America?"

The same.

[festus]

He swears he never met the mother.

[GSWarrior]

Yao!

I mean, wow!

[GWfan]

She has giantism, not acromeglia....sometimes a giant is a giant. ;)

[Cobra64]

Thank you ever so much, you are one officious dude.

Thank you!

[JRios1968]

Yao-za!!

[manwiththehands]

I didn't think it could happen ... but we found a woman with bigger feet than Maureen Dowd's.

[EmilyGeiger]

I wonder if there is a smiley that would go with that? :)

[Eighth Square]

What's the 'hight' of her heed?

(Sorry, could'nt resist that one either.)

[JRios1968]

I didn't think it could happen ... but we found a woman with bigger feet than Maureen Dowd's.

Uh oh, you mentioned MoDo...

[Paul C. Jesup]

az wildkitten: As well as multiple congenital anomalies. This poor woman is doomed to a very short, uncomfortable life.

Actually given modern medical technology and medicines, she may actually live to see 60 years old at least. Keep in mind, one of the last major cases known of this condition was a century ago, and that european giant man died from a infection cause by a broken leg.

So this woman has a chance as a long life as long as she is careful and take care of herself.

Also, if the condition is caught in children, it can be stopped before it gets dangerious.

[Graymatter]

I read somewhere that basketball player Yao's parents were both very tall and the Chinese authorities required them to marry. Sort of a genetic experiment to get a very tall child. How true it is I couldn't say.

[cloud8]

Vive la femme la plus grande du monde!

[Right Wing Assault]

great photo shop job except

Also, look to the right of Heather's leg, the one moving forward. You can see what looks like the vertical line of a splice. http://www.snopes.com/photos/tallwoman.asp