Sandy Allen “World’s Tallest Woman” Dies At 53 (Photos)

Sandy Allen “World’s Tallest Woman” has died at age 53. Sandy Allen was 7 feet, 7 inches tall. Strange but that is the same height of Bigfoot that was found in Georgia, see post here. Sandy Allen passed away in Indiana.

Sandy Allen, “World’s Tallest Woman” according to Guinness, died at the nursing home where she had lived for several years in Indiana, family friend Rita Rose said. Allen had been sick for several months, using a wheelchair because of poor circulation and weak leg muscles, Rose said.

Sandy Allen’s cause of death is not yet known. Allen had been hospitalized in recent months as she suffered from a recurring blood infection, along with diabetes, breathing troubles and kidney failure, Rose said.

Allen said a tumor caused her pituitary gland to produce too much growth hormone. She underwent an operation in 1977 to stop further growth.

But she was proud of her height, Rose said. “She embraced it,” she said. “She used it as a tool to educate people.”

Allen used the fame of her height to speak to church and school groups about how it was ok to be different.

Guinness World Records listed Allen as the world’s tallest living woman at the time of her death, spokesman Damian Field said. Some say there is actually a 7 foot, 9 inch woman from China.

Sandy Allen only weighed 6 1/2 pounds when she was born in June 1955. But by the age of 10 she had grown to be 6 feet, 3 inches, and was 7 feet, 1inch by the time she turned 16.

She wrote to Guinness World Records in 1974, saying would love to meet someone close to her height.

“It is needless to say my social life is practically nil and perhaps the publicity from your book may brighten my life,” she wrote.

Being recognized as the “World’s Tallest Woman” in Guinness helped her comes to term with her height and become less shy, Rose said.

“It kind of brought her out of her shell,” Rose said. “She got to the point where she could joke about it.”

In the 1980s, she appeared for several years at the Guinness Museum of World Records in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

“I’ll never forget the old Japanese man who couldn’t speak English, so he decided to feel for himself if I was real,” she recalled with a chuckle when she moved back to Indiana in 1987.

“At Guinness there were days when I felt like I was doing a freak show,” she said. “When that feeling came too often, I knew I had to come back home.”

Sandy Allen became more confined to her wheelchair and unable to do speaking engagements, Rose said. She had suffered from diabetes and other ailments and used a wheelchair to get around.

Rose is working to set up a scholarship fund in Allen’s name, with proceeds going to Shelbyville High School.

“She loved talking to kids because they would ask more honest questions,” Rose said. “Adults would kind of stand back and stare and not know how to approach her.”

Condolences to Sandy Allen’s family and friends!

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