World’s Tallest Man Leonid Stadnyk From Ukrain, Dies Aged 44

Leonid Stadnyk, believed to be the
world’s tallest man at 8ft 4 inches
has died. He was just 44. The
peasant farmer from the Ukrainian
village of Podoliantsy, died on
Sunday August 24th from a brain
haemorrhage after health
problems.
In his last interview, Leonid, He
talked about how his height was a
curse, why he refused to be
measured by the Guinness Book of
World Records and also why he
refused to get married
“To me, my height is a curse,
a punishment from God, not
something to celebrate. What
sin I have committed, I do
not know. All my life I have
dreamed of being just like
everyone else. I don’t want
or need the fame that this
would bring so I have no
desire to be in this Guinness
book.
“I never got married because
I don’t want to inflict my
problems on a wife. I think it
would not be fair on her” he
said.
At one point, his condition, called
giganticism, left him growing at
the rate of roughly a foot every 3
years. His feet measured 18 inches
in length while his palms were
more than a foot in diameter.