World’s Tallest Teeenage Girl Karabuk Rumeysa Gelgi Might Suffer From Similar Condition As Matthew McGrory

One always manages to find unique stories from various news sources on the internet but this one is slightly interesting. Guinness recently gave the plaque for the World’s Tallest Girl to a Turkish teenager named Karabük Rumeysa Gelgi, who Guinness says is at 7 feet tall. Looking at the pictures of the still very young girl, one notices that she has a abnormally long neck, and slightly proportionally large head. The sources say that she is still 17 and is still going to High School. Height is supposed to be around 7′ 0.6″. The rest of her family is normal height. (source: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2014/7/turkeys-rumeysa-gelgi-is-awarded-the-title-of-tallest-teenager-female-in-the-world-58677/)

The general diagnosis of her is something known as Weaver’s Syndrome. I’ve only looked into Weaver’s Syndrome maybe once before but this development has almost forced me to look back into the syndrome to see how does it cause excessive increased growth.

Being so young, one should not have many physical conditions, but it seems that she is already having instability and walking problems. In almost every picture we have found of her, she is leaning on a walker. My guess is that she is having problems with her joints and vertebrate areas already.

The physicians who examined her have said that she will NOT be growing any more, and that fits very much to what happened with the now deceased Zech Devits as well as Matthew McGrory.

Devit’s conditioned caused him to grow at an insane rate between the ages of 2-13, and then his epiphyseal cartilages completely fused. X-rays done on his vertebrate and joints even at the age of 7-9 showed that Devit’s had compressed discs and was probably starting to suffer lower back pain. By the time Devit’s was even 15, he seemed to have been already confined to the wheelchair.

I don’t have any information on the growth pattern on Matthew McGrory but based on how Gelgi’s body looks, McGrory most likely also had Weaver’s Syndrome if Rumeysa is properly diagnosed.

What is interesting is that the people at TheTallestMan Forums have said that Rumeysa might not be suffering from Weaver’s Syndrome, since she doesn’t really exhibit that big of a macrocephalic features. (Refer here)

(Refer to the older posts about Zech Devits and Matt McGrory)