Tallest Girl of Brazil

It's hard standing out from the crowd when you are a teenager but few schoolchildren can claim to be more visible than Elisany Silva. The 14-year-old measures an unbelievable 6ft 9in tall, making her one of the biggest teenagers in the world.
The pretty youngster is believed to be suffering from a rare disease which has caused her extreme growth.




Elisany Silva towers over her friends as they play on the beach in Braganca in the Brazilian Amazon state of Para. The 14-year-old cannot attend school because at 6ft 9in tall she is too big to sit on the bus



Speaking from her home in the Brazilian Amazon state of Para, Elisany told a local television station how she was unable to go to school because she could not sit properly on the bus.
She added: 'It's hard when I'm inside home. I get distracted and hit the wood in the ceiling with my head.
Elisany lives in a small house with her sisters and mother Ana Maria Silva and step-father Luiz Jorge.



Her mother said: 'I want her to stop growing up, to be like the other girls because I know she feels weird and sometimes wants to be like them.'
A medical expert who was given details of her condition in Brazil without examining her said Elisany could be in danger of health problems.
He said he believed she was suffering from gigantism, in which the body produces excessive amounts of growth hormones.