Her name was Yao Defen, she was 2.36 meters tall, and was known as "the world's first living female giant" at that time.
She wears size 78 shoes on her feet and has palms that are several times larger than her peers.
Her unusual height has brought her a good job, but it has also brought her great disasters, and her life can be said to be very tragic.
Today, let's walk into yao Defen, the "world's first female giant".
Yao Defen was born in 1972 in a rural family, plus her family has a total of five brothers and sisters, other siblings and parents are very normal, but Yao Defen has been different from her peers since elementary school.
Yao Defen developed rapidly from an early age, and at the age of seven, she was as tall as a normal adult, and her parents and relatives and friends were surprised by this, but they did not think much about it.
When it was time to go to school, her parents sent Yao Defen to the primary school in the village, but Yao Defen, who was abrupt in height, was not very happy in school, she was not like other friends, so the classmates did not like to play with her.
Therefore, Yao Defen had a psychology of school aversion, she began to hate everything in school, began to become inferior and introverted, did not communicate with others, at first she and her parents said their feelings, parents wanted her to try to integrate into the life of the school, but in the long run, Yao Defen's disgusted psychology became more and more serious, and promised her to let her drop out of school at home.
Yao Defen, who dropped out of school and had little culture, had to help with some housework at home, young but not as tall as adults, but she did not stop growing after reaching normal height, or grew crazy at a very fast speed.
By the age of 15, Yao Defen's height was close to two meters, which made everyone very incredible, because the family was normal height, but Yao Defen was so tall.
The news spread in the village, which also attracted the attention of the newspaper reporter, who was particularly interested in Yao Defen's height and wanted to interview her, and Yao Defen was also interviewed, so Yao Defen appeared in the newspaper.
Soon, Yao Defen's rare height received widespread attention, and also attracted the attention of the head of the Anhui Provincial Sports Brigade, who thought that Yao Defen was very talented and had an advantage in height, hoping to recruit her into the team and learn basketball.
Therefore, the talented Yao Defen was recruited into the basketball team of the Anhui Provincial Sports School, they are ready to train her to be the second "Zheng Haixia", for this sudden accident, the family is also happy for her, Yao Defen is not so inferior, she is not worried about her height for the first time, maybe to the basketball team, she will not be different in the eyes of others.
Yao Defen cherishes this opportunity very much, she trains harder than anyone else, when others train, she is training, when others rest, she is also training, she thinks that she started later than others, and she has to work harder to keep up with everyone.5
When everyone looked at her efforts and thought she was a potential player who could shine on the court, life made a huge joke to her, God gave her perfect height, but did not give her a strong body, as long as the training intensity increased, she would feel physically weak.
Three months after entering the sports school, she fell heavily on the basketball court due to physical weakness during a training session, and then was rushed to the hospital by ambulance for treatment, and the "basketball dream" she had just had was shattered.
After being sent to the hospital, the doctor diagnosed Yao Defen with "giant syndrome" through various examinations, which is simply caused by too much growth hormone secreted by the pituitary gland, and a brain tumor has been formed, and the brain tumor must be removed.
The sudden illness made the family, which was not rich, worse, and made Yao Defen, who had low self-esteem, appear even more timid.
The disease did not crush Yao Defen, although it is not impossible to solve, but Yao Defen's family situation is not good, there are younger siblings to raise at home, her father also suffers from a serious stomach disease, has been relying on drug treatment, nearly 10,000 yuan of surgical treatment fees for Yao Defen's family is astronomical.
Yao Defen could not bear to let her parents bear so much pressure for themselves, after a complex psychological struggle, she finally gave up her "basketball dream" and packed up her things and returned home from school.
After Yao Defen returned home, she also wanted to contribute to her family, and she wanted to find a job to earn money to support her family.
One day in 1993, a circus wanted to invite Yao Defen to join them as a special actor, because Yao Defen's outstanding height would attract the attention of the audience, Yao Defen did not hesitate, she just needed a job, and there was such an opportunity in front of her.
Yao Defen signed a five-year contract with the other party, she does not want to drag her parents at home, she wants to earn money to support herself and subsidize the family.
Since then, Yao Defen has followed the circus on a national tour, although the income is very small, but Yao Defen will always be reluctant to eat and wear, save most of the money and send it home, let his parents treat the disease and buy medicine.
After the contract with the circus expired, Yao Defen packed her bags and returned home, she became so emaciated that her mother did not dare to recognize that the tall and thin person in front of her was actually her daughter, due to long-term performances, Yao Defen had very little time to eat, and she deliberately reduced the amount of her meal, resulting in increasing emaciation.
Yao Defen's mother held her daughter in front of her in pain and shed tears, and Yao Defen's parents felt very guilty in their hearts, and they regretted letting their daughter suffer everywhere, but there was no way.
After Yao Defen returned home, he could not find the ideal job, because of his height and his own health, his income was lower than his income when he worked in the circus before, so Yao Defen took the initiative to contact the acrobatic troupe and continued to start wandering and touring.
By the age of 26, Yao Defen's height reached 2.36 meters, ten centimeters taller than the "giant" Yao Ming at that time, and set a Guinness World Record.
In May 2001, Yao Defen went to Guangdong to perform, was interviewed by a local television station, and after the program was broadcast, a hospital was very concerned about Yao Defen's condition and offered to provide her with free brain tumor removal surgery.
But unfortunately, because the illness was delayed for too long and had affected the bones, Yao Defen's movements began to become slow.
The next year, Yao Defen went to Guangdong Hospital for a review and met a man who was as tall as her, that person was called Wang Fengjun, he was 2.45 meters tall, and the two of them successively made headlines on major online media.
As her popularity grew, a film and television company extended an invitation to her, as well as Wang Fengjun, who intended to make them into "giant" special actors, and the company offered a salary of 60,000 yuan a year.
Yao Defen, who happened to be short of work, was very willing to accept the company's invitation, after all, she had to perform in the circus for a long time to earn this money, such a tempting opportunity was in front of her, and she immediately agreed.
But soon after, Yao Defen disagreed with the boss for various reasons, and there was a conflict, and she finally did not succeed in getting the sixty thousand yuan.
Soon after, she began to learn massage techniques after being introduced by others, Yao Defen naturally had money to earn, and after studying for a few months, she could already work independently.
She has the sign of "Giant" massage, which attracts the attention of many people, and many people come to visit.
However, because she is too tall, it is necessary to bend down to massage the guests, but because her bones have always been faulty, giving the guests a massage is a difficult thing, so it is not possible to rest for a few minutes, so the guests are also very dissatisfied.
In the end, Yao Defen could only give up the road of massage and look for other ways to make money.
Yao Defen returned to a wandering life, and she began to learn to sing and enter the song and dance troupe.
During one performance, she sang "Wandering Song" on stage, and some spectators threw apples and bananas on the stage, and everyone cheered like a monkey in a circus.
Yao Defen tried to hide on the stage, and after the performance, he hid in the corner and cried loudly.
But under the pressure of life, she did not give up, she must work hard to earn money, in order to treat her parents and provide for her younger siblings to study.
In October 2006, Yao Defen, who was performing in Shandong at the time, received a call from her mother, and as soon as the phone was answered, her mother's cry came, and her mother choked up and said: "Fen, your father is gone." ”
Yao Defen listened to this news for a long time and did not react, and tears flowed silently.
Since then, Yao Defen no longer performs and wanders around outside, returns to her hometown, and when she returns home, her father has been buried in the ground, she kneels in front of her father's grave, while kneeling and prostrating her head, while telling about her difficulties in wandering outside in recent years, when her father is there, she always dares not tell her father what happened to her, for fear of causing her parents to worry.
In 2010, Yao Defen planned to return to his hometown to take care of his seriously ill mother, but as Yao Defen grew older, his condition became more and more serious.
When local reporters discovered such a miserable family, they wrote about their deeds into news, and after being exposed, well-meaning people everywhere donated materials and money, hoping to help them get through the difficulties.
Although Yao Defen was funded to be treated in the hospital, unfortunate things happened, she died on the morning of November 13, 2012, Yao Defen's mother was heartbroken, she endured the pain of the white-haired people sending the black-haired people, and lost her husband and daughter.
In this way, Yao Defen's tragic life came to an end.
Yao Defen has four unfulfilled wishes, which are easy for us ordinary people, and even ordinary things that can no longer be ordinary, she revealed her heart in an interview with reporters.
Her first wish was to be able to cure the strange disease.
Yao Defen told reporters that after she returned home from Shanghai for treatment a few years ago, she was fighting with the disease every moment, and her elderly mother, who was nearly ancient, had been dependent on her and was always worried about taking care of her condition, Yao Defen believed that her therapeutic role in Shanghai Hospital was limited, and she could not control her condition.
Yao Defen's left lower abdomen grew a small drum bag, and after examination by the local hospital, it was found that it was intestinal obstruction, which had not been eliminated.
In the past two years, Yao Defen also needs to face epilepsy left over from brain tumor surgery, and has to take medicine every day to suppress the seizures. Later, Yao Defen had a sore throat and ankles one after another, and could not walk for a long distance, and could only endure the pain of illness and perform some simple exercises in bed.
Yao Defen finally said with emotion that she really hoped to cure the strange diseases in her body and do all kinds of things for society like normal people.
Her second wish is to eat every day.
It is very easy for ordinary people to eat enough, but due to the difficult family conditions, Yao Defen's meal volume is very huge, and she can only reduce her own meal.
You should know that she can eat 6 bowls of fried noodles in one meal in the song and dance troupe, and sometimes she can eat a half rice cooker for a lunch, but now she can only reduce the amount of food she eats every day to the same amount as normal people to reduce the expenses for the family.
Perhaps because of her own hunger and diet, Yao Defen's height was also controlled, she went to the Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University to measure and learned that she was 2.40 meters tall when she was lying down, and when she stood, because of hunchback and other reasons, her height was 2.36 meters, Yao Defen once said: "Although it is one of my most basic wishes to be able to eat every meal every day, it will never be difficult for the local government, for relatives and friends and neighbors." ”
Yao Defen has been wronged since she was a child, and her heart has become very fragile and sensitive, and she cares a lot about the opinions of others.
Yao Defen said that she likes to eat chestnuts very much, there are several large chestnut trees in her hometown, generally after autumn, her mother will go back to her hometown to pick some for her to eat, but her mother is getting worse and worse, and she is older, and she can only silently recall the taste of chestnuts.
For various reasons, Yao Defen did not apply for a minimum guarantee, economic difficulties, so that it takes half a year or a year to eat meat, because the meat is only bought for a few dollars, some butchers are reluctant to sell to them, so they have also been ridiculed and white-eyed, she said that she would rather not eat meat than suffer white eyes.
Yao Defen is very eager to have good friends to help her solve her problems and talk about her heart, but due to her own special reasons, she has never met such a friend.
Only in the song and dance troupe there is a year-old friend, the chef who often takes care of her in the diet makes her unforgettable, in the song and dance troupe, as soon as it comes to eating, the chef will call her, give her a little more scoop, the chef is much older than her, the reason is to treat as an elder, but she wants to treat it as a friend.
Yao Defen once said: "The best, most sincere, most talkative, most patient friend to listen to me is my mother Wei Xianying."
Yao Defen's four wishes are very simple for most people, but she is so eager to suffer from illness, she has endured too much pain and setbacks in her life, but she can also face it strongly. Although she can't live like an ordinary person, her heart is stronger than the average person, and she hopes that people in society will not look at them with strange eyes, because their hearts are more fragile than ordinary people, even if they are not able to help them, they should have good intentions.