Last night I watched an interesting documentary called 'World's Tallest Children'. I do seem to have some sort of prediliction for 'freakshow' docs like this. Last week I recorded and watched 'The World's Fattest Man gets Married'. The title was of course, self-explanatory. It wasn't as good as 'The Tree-Man' or 'The Twins who share a Body' though.
Anyway, 'World's Tallest Children' was pretty good. Of course, it featured the tallest young 'uns on the planet- a Jamaican 15 year old who was 6ft 9, a Thai girl who was 6ft 10, an American boy who was pushing 8ft and the tallest family in Britian, where every member is over 5ft 10 (dad 6ft 9, 15 year old son 6ft 8, 13 year old 6ft 7, etc) and their specially designed and built house. Pretty amazing stuff. It was also surprisingly uplifting. All the kids seemed fairly well-balanced and happy...even the 8 year old girl who was 4ft 7 and whose dad was panicky that she would grow up to be as tall as he was (6ft 5). She wasn't at all bothered and said she'd like to be as tall as her dad. He hoped she'd be average.
The Jamaican girl said it best. She said that she loves her height and would hate to be shorter. She loves the attention she gets and she thinks being average is just boring. As someone who's quite tall myself (and hated it for a very long time), this sort of attitude was so refreshing and I thought she was fabulous...even though her name was Marvadene! ;)
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