Rumeysa Gelgi of Turkey is the woman who has the honor of being the tallest woman in the world in 2023. Rumeysa Gelgi is 7.07 feet tall and hails from a small town in Turkey. She is a lawyer, researcher, and web developer. She is not only in the Guinness Book of World Records for her height, but she holds five world records in total. She has the largest hands (female), longest fingers (female), longest Also holds the title of Longest Waist (Female) and previously held the title of Tallest Living Female Teenager by Guinness World Records.
Let's talk about how Rumeysa Gelgi became so tall and what happened to her. Rumeysa Gelgi was born on January 1, 1997. At birth, he weighed 13 pounds and was 59 cm (23.2 in) tall, much taller than a normal baby. Romesa was born with Weaver syndrome, a very rare disease that causes rapid growth. Romesa is the first citizen of Turkey to suffer from this syndrome and one of only fifty people worldwide.
The syndrome weakens the muscles and causes curvature of the spine, so she cannot stand for more than thirty minutes and has to sit in a wheelchair. By four months of age, Romisa is 82 cm (32.28 in). had grown. In December 1997, when he was only 11 months old, he underwent two major surgeries, one of which was open heart surgery. By 13 months of age, she had grown to 104 cm (40.94 in). At the age of two, Rumeysa grew to 4 feet 6 inches tall. At the age of three and a half, Romesa underwent her second major operation, which was for hernias. In mid-2003, treatment was started to stop the growth of Romesa, which has continued for three years and has been successful.
Romesa's height was 172 cm (5 ft 7 in) at the age of six, and 179 cm (5 ft 10 in) at the age of seven. In September 2005, at the age of eight, Romesa started studying at the second What about the party? At the age of 10, he measured 6 feet 8 inches. In 2013, a week before her 17th birthday, she underwent scoliosis surgery. She spent New Year's Eve and her 17th birthday in the hospital and remained hospitalized until March 2014.
A few weeks after returning home from the hospital, Romesa holds the title of the tallest teenage girl, on July 9, 2014, she was presented with a certificate and declared her Guinness World Record holder at a special ceremony. In June 2016, Romesa Completed her high school education. At the age of 23, Romesa started studying web development and received several professional certificates in web development from various educational institutions, including Codecademy, World Wide Web Consortium, and Harvard University. In 2021, when she was 24 years old. She was measured again and at 215.16 cm (7 ft 0.07 in) she became the tallest woman. On February 19, 2022, Romesa's hands, fingers, and waist were measured.
He won the largest hand category with 24.93 cm (9.81 in), the longest finger category with 11.2 cm (4.40 in), and the widest hand with 22.6 cm (8.9 in). category held the world record in the largest waist category with 59.90 cm (23.58 inches). On September 28, 2022, Romesa traveled by air for the first time, which was from Istanbul to California (USA). It was her first time leaving her home country. For this trip, the airline had to remove five seats from the plane and fit Romesa on a stretcher. Romesa is so tall that a normal door is too small for her, even a normal car. It is very small and even a common man is small in front of it.
His hands are so big that they look like an iPad or an iPhone on his hand. Everything in his house, from his clothes to his shoes and from his bed, is specially made for him according to his height. Due to this illness, she could not go to school and was taught at home. Despite all this, Romesa was never disappointed. She is a good-natured girl, always with a smile on her face. She is also living her life to the fullest like a normal girl. She likes watching movies, doing nail art, etc. Romesa has always felt proud rather than ashamed of her height.