World's Tallest Woman Dies

It's official: The world's tallest woman, Yao Defen, has died in her home in the province of Anhui in eastern China at the age of 39.

Yao held the record when Guinness World Records in January of 2010 certified her as the world's tallest living person at 7ft 7inches. According to its website, Yao may still have been growing due to a portion of a tumour remaining on her pituitary gland. The website states that she was too ill to be measured again

The local Xin'an Evening News did not give the cause of death, but said in a report that Yao suffered from gigantism, with a tumour on her pituitary gland disrupting her levels of growth hormone. A government official in her county who gave only his surname, Liu, confirmed Yao's death on Wednesday.

In a Chinese language video from three years ago, Yao expressed anguish at her unusual height, further proving that her last days were filled with regret and unhappiness.

"I am very unhappy. Why am I this tall?", she said from her bed. "If I were not this tall, others would not look at me like this"

If only she could've seen that the look people gave her was because they saw her as SPECIAL.