Leonid Stadnyk, believed to be the world's
tallest man at 8ft 4 inches has died. He was
just 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 giganticism,
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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