Leonid Stadnyk, believed to be the world's
tallest man at 8ft 4 inches recently died at the age of 44. The peasant farmer
from the Ukrainian village of Podoliantsy, died on Sunday August 24th from a
brain haemorrhage after health problems. In his
last interview, Leonid, who wears a talked about how his height was a curse,
why he refused to be measured by the Guinness Book of World Records and also
why he refused to get married
"To me, my height is a curse, a punishment from God, not
something to celebrate. What sin I have committed, I do not know. All my life I
have dreamed of being just like everyone else. I don't want or need the fame
that this would bring so I have no desire to be in this Guinness book.
"I never got married because I don't want to inflict my
problems on a wife. I think it would not be fair on her" he said.
At one point, his condition, called gigantism,
left him growing at the rate of roughly a foot every 3 years. His feet measured
18 inches in length while his palms were more than a foot in diameter.
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