The tallest woman in the world: exciting facts

The tallest woman in the world comes from Turkey and is not even 30 years old. However, there was also a woman who was even taller but has long since died

Rumeysa Gelgi is the tallest woman in the world

She measures 215.16 centimetres, or more than 2.15 meters, and thus towers over all other women living on this planet: Rumeysa Gelgi from Turkey already stood out when she was born on January 1, 1997 with her body length of 59 centimeters.

• Rumeysa now wears size 51 shoes and is a household name, not least thanks to the documentary “Rumeysa: Walking Tall”

• The reason for her enormous height, which made her the tallest teenager in the world in 2014, is Weaver syndrome. In addition to the strong growth, a slight mental disability and characteristic changes in the face are often observed.

• Rumeysa Gelgi, who comes from a small Anatolian town, is unable to get around due to her enormous and rapid growth. This is why she usually uses a wheelchair or walker to get around.

Other records by Rumeysa Gelgi

The 27-year-old Turkish woman’s enormous height alone doesn’t exactly make life easy for her. But she also experienced bullying during her childhood because of another record.

• Rumeysa Gelgi has a particularly long ear, measuring 9.58 centimetres, which is also in the Guinness Book of Records. After all, this makes her the woman with the longest ears

• However, she already set a record as a baby: At 59 centimeters long, she was also considered the tallest newborn girl in the world. Incidentally, her mother Safiye Şahin Gelgi is also said to have been born with such an unusual height and therefore also holds the record baby title.

• In total, Rumeysa Gelgi holds eight world records in the women’s category, all of which relate to her body measurements. Among other things, she can also boast the longest finger with a length of 11.2 centimetres, the largest hands with 24.93 centimetres on the right and 24.26 centimetres on the left and the longest back of a living woman with 59.9 centimetres.

• By the way, Rumeysa Gelgi is not the tallest woman in the world who ever lived. She came from China. Zeng Jinlian measured 246.3 centimetres, but died in 1982.