Acromegaly (from Greek akros "high" and megas "large" - extremities enlargement) is a hormonal disorder that results when the pituitary gland produces excess gr...
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Thought it would be interstting to list a few celebs that have acromegaly. just to show us that we can go far in life with acromegaly. ive listed a few but if you know more add them.
Kevyn Aucoin was a make-up artist and photographer for the celebs. andre(the giant)René Roussimoff was wwf wrestler. was 7ft Richard Kiel height star of bond movies (known as jaws) was 7 ft2 ted cassidy played lurch in the adams family films. Paul Wight (another wrestler) Rondo Hatton (an actor whose face was disfigured by the disease, and who often played criminals and thugs). tony robbins a motivation guru Posted on 04/17/08, 09:04 am |
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I can think of one Sing Sing Ming who is now Yao MIng a famous basketball player who plays for the Houston Rockets.He is out right now with a fracture. 
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ouch, bet that hurt. great sport to play being so tall!!
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I looked at the wikipedia entry for acromegaly and they have a long list of acromegalics who are or were famous. As far as I can tell, they were all male.... A large number of them were tall, too. Not be. Not male and not tall...... Why do you think there are no famous female acromegalics?
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theres a woman in china shes the worlds tallest at 238cm she has acromegaly her name is yao tefen
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i also havent found anywomen celebs with acromegaly. i wonder why???
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ok now i have....
Sandy Allen from Shelbyville, IN (USA) who stood at 7'7 1/4" (232cm) at her tallest 7'0 1/4" (214cm)Esther Fosuaah, Brong-Ahafo (Ghana) apparently famous for being so tall.
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This is not exactly the same subject but have you noticed that Sly Stalone take GH and his face looks all puffy and like he has it! I guess the GH is supposed to prevent aging and help with muscle tone when you get older, he is pretty old now... but he looks like crap!!!!!
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yeah, i noticed. he took a lot of it to do the last Rocky film to build muscle up quick. big mistake. he did get a telling off for that.
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I read an article about aboutpeople taking GH, and it actually stated that Acromegaly can occurr, I wonder if he knew that? silly man
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flouncy mentioned Andre the Giant,I met him in 1971,he was the Tag team partner of a wrestling friend of mine,I was 6foot 7inches and weighed 18 stone at the time but felt tiny alongside Andre who claimed to be 7foot 3inches and 30 stone.Another Acro-Giant I met was Mohammad Channa from Pakistan,he was with the Pakistan provilion at World Expo 88 in Bribane,he claimed to be the worlds second tallest man at 7foot 7inches.Neither of these gentlemen spoke English so we were only able to exchange smiles handshakes and friendly gestures,and unfortunatly both gentlemen have since died from the complications of not having had their Acromegaly treated.I however intend to live until I am well over 100!
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I´m a member of Facebook and there we also got a great supportgroup for us having acromegaly.
Thought this might help too. On this web site they list at least 71 symptoms of acromegaly. www.wrongdiagnosis.com and …
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