A 7ft 8 in man has found love with a woman almost three foot shorter than him.
28-year-old Joelison Fernandes da Silva has been described as Brazil’s ‘gentle giant’ and is officially the country’s tallest man, after he developed gigantism as a child.
The gentle giant was bullied as a teen and dropped out of school, had an operation at the age of 21 to remove a benign tumor on his pituitary gland, his condition is now under control and he has grown in confidence.
He became a bit of a celebrity in Paraiba, Brazil, where he lives, and began to attract admirers, including 21-year-old Evem Medeiros.
Joelison say the day he saw her, it was love at first sight.’ Although, at 5ft, she is almost three foot smaller than her partner, they say size is no obstacle to their romance.
Well, after his father-in-law got over the shock.
Evem admits: ‘He told me “daughter, I told you to get a man, a great man. You exaggerated.”‘
Just a year later, they were married and they’re now trying for a baby, which has brought some ‘unwelcome’ questions about Joelison’s proportions, says the couple.
Joelison clarifies, tongue-in-cheek, ‘the size of my feet is false advertising.’
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