She is the world's first female giant, half a head taller than Yao Ming, wearing size 78 shoes, and able to eat two catties of rice and six bowls of noodles every day. However, behind her towering height that broke the Guinness record, there are endless troubles. Besides the various inconveniences in daily life, she also suffers from the torment of illness. Why did she grow so tall? What stories are there in her life? Born in an ordinary village in Anhui Province in 1972, Yao Defen's parents were simple farmers who made a living by farming, with very unstable income. Yao Defen was unusually tall since childhood, standing out among other children of the same age by a big margin at the age of three or four. When she started elementary school, her height skyrocketed, and she was as tall as an adult at the age of 10. Her parents originally thought their daughter would stop growing at around 1.7 meters, but they didn't expect Yao Defen's height to continue to soar after entering junior high school. Moreover, her appetite grew larger and larger, and she could eat more than the whole family in one meal. During her junior high school years, she had to eat two catties of rice and six bowls of noodles every day just to barely satisfy her hunger. By the time she was 15, Yao Defen had already exceeded two meters in height, standing taller than the teacher on the podium by one or two heads. To avoid affecting the classes of other students,…