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*Too tall for school: The 14-year-old Brazilian girl who at 6ft 9in cannot
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*It's hard standing out from the crowd when you are a teenager but few
schoolchildren can claim to be more visible than Elisany Silva.*

*The 14-year-old measures an unbelievable 6ft 9in tall, making her one of
the biggest teenagers in the world.*

*The pretty youngster is believed to be suffering from a rare disease which
has caused her extreme growth.*

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*Tallest: Elisany Silva towers over her friends as they play on the beach in
Braganca in the Brazilian Amazon state of Para. The 14-year-old cannot
attend school because at 6ft 9in tall she is too big to sit on the bus*

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*Sisters: Elisany lies on her bed with sister Talicia, 12, at their home. It
is believed the 14-year-old is suffering from a disease which makes her grow
rapidly but her parents cannot afford to pay doctors to investigate*

*However, its exact nature has not been determined because her parents
cannot afford to pay for doctors to investigate further.*

*Speaking from her home in the Brazilian Amazon state of Para, Elisany told
a local television station how she was unable to go to school because she
could not sit properly on the bus.*

*She added: 'It's hard when I'm inside home. I get distracted and hit the
wood in the ceiling with my head.*

*Elisany lives in a small house with her sisters and mother Ana Maria Silva
and step-father Luiz Jorge.
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*Her mother said: 'I want her to stop growing up, to be like the other girls
because I know she feels weird and sometimes wants to be like them.'*

*A medical expert who was given details of her condition in Brazil without
examining her said Elisany could be in danger of health problems.*

*He said he believed she was suffering from gigantism, in which the body
produces excessive amounts of growth hormones.
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*Sister act: Elisany pictured with siblings Talicia and Eliza, right. The
6ft 9in teenager said she regularly hurts her head at their home*
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*Determined: Elisany hopes to use her incredible height to become a model.
She is pictured left with some dogs on the beach and right with sister
Talicia
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*The expert said: 'She might have the symptoms of the disease, which may be
the headache, vision problems, and death of some other glands, like the
thyroid, adrenals and the ovaries.*

*'It might cause serious implications for her health and even death.'*

*It is thought that if her condition is left untreated, the 14-year-old
could continue to grow at a rate of six inches a year.
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*The normal rate of growth for a child of her age is just a third of that
amount.
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*Elisany now hopes to exploit her height and become a fashion model.*

*She said: 'I want to be a model very much.'*

*Some websites suggest she may soon achieve her dream, with one reporting
that she was due to make her catwalk debut in Belem, Brazil, dressed as a
bride.
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