has died. He was just 44. The peasant farmer from the Ukrainian
village of Podoliantsy, died on Sunday August 24th from a brain
haemorrhage after health problems.
In his last interview, Leonid, who wears a talked about how his
height was a curse, why he refused to be measured by the Guinness Book
of World Records and also why he refused to get married
"To me, my height is a curse, a punishment from God, not something to
celebrate. What sin I have committed, I do not know. All my life I
have dreamed of being just like everyone else. I don't want or need
the fame that this would bring so I have no desire to be in this
Guinness book.
"I never got married because I don't want to inflict my problems on a
wife. I think it would not be fair on her" he said.
At one point, his condition, called giganticism, left him growing at
the rate of roughly a foot every 3 years. His feet measured 18 inches
in length while his palms were more than a foot in diameter.
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