Meet Malee, the world's tallest teen... and even at 6ft 10in she could still be growing

ထုိင္းနုိင္ငံမွ အရပ္ ၆ ေပ၊ ၁၀ လက္မ ရွိသည္ ့

ကမာၻ ့အရပ္အရွည္ဆံုးဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္မေလး...

သူမ၏မိဘႏွစ္ပါးထက္ပင္ သူမအရပ္က ပခံုးတစ္ထစ္၊ ဦးေခါင္းတစ္လံုးမက ပုိလုိ ့ပင္ရွည္ေသးသည့္အ
တြက္ အရပ္ ၆ေပ၊ ၁၀ လက္မရွိသည္ ့ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္အရြယ္ မယ္ထန္းပင္ကေလးဟာ ကမာၻ ့အရပ္အ
ရွည္ဆံုး ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္မိန္းကေလးၿဖစ္ေနၿပီး သူမအရပ္ဟာထုိမွ်တင္မက ဆက္ၿပီးေတာ့ပင္ရွည္လာနုိင္
ဦးမွာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
ကုိယ္အေလးခ်ိန္ ၂၈၆ ေပါင္နီးပါး ( ၂၀.၅ စတံု ) ရွိသည္ ့ထုိင္းနုိင္ငံ၊ အေရွ ့ပုိင္းမွ မိန္းကေလး မလီဒြမ္ဒီး
တစ္ယာက္ သူမငယ္စဥ္ကတည္း တစ္ၿခားသူမ်ားႏွင္ ့မတူထူးၿခားၿပီး ေက်ာင္းေနဖက္သူငယ္ခ်င္းမ်ားထက္
ပိုလို ့လ်င္ၿမန္စြာအရပ္ရွည္လာေနခဲ ့တာကုိ သိခဲ ့ရပါတယ္...
သူမအသက္ ကုိးႏွစ္အရြယ္မွာ မိခင္ၿဖစ္သူက သမီးငယ္ဟာရြယ္တူတစ္ၿခားကေလးေတြနဲ ့မတူ (လ်င္ၿမန္
စြာ အရပ္အလြန္အမင္းရွည္လာ ) တာေႀကာင္ ့တစ္ၿခားစုိးရိမ္စရာ ေရာဂါ၊ အၿဖစ္ဆန္းမ်ားရွိေလမလားဆုိ
ၿပီးစုိးရိမ္ပူပန္ကာ ဆရာ၀န္ဆီေခၚသြားခဲ ့ပါတယ္....

သူငယ္ခ်င္းၿဖစ္သူ ခုိဆြန္ထက္ေရာ၊ ဟုိင္းလပ္ပစ္ကပ္ကားထက္ပါ သူမက ပုိလုိ ့ရွည္ေနပါတယ္...

Malee Duangdee stands tall above a pick-up truck and her friend, A Khoson

သူမရဲ ့ဦးေႏွာက္မွာနာ ့ဗ္ေႀကာတစ္ခုကုိ ဖိထားမိေနတဲ ့အဖုအႀကိတ္တစ္ခုကုိ ေဆးရံုမွစမ္းသပ္ေတြ ့ရွိခဲ ့ႀက
ပါတယ္...ထုိအၿဖစ္ေႀကာင္ ့ပင္လွ်င္ သူမအေနႏွင္ ့မရပ္မနားအရပ္ရွည္လာေနခဲ ့ရသည္ ့ဟုိမုန္းမညီမမွ်ႀကီး
ထြားမွဳၿဖစ္ေနခဲ ့ရၿပီး ထုိကဲ ့သုိ ့အရပ္ဆက္လက္မရွည္လာေစရန္ တားဆီးနုိင္ရန္အတြက္ သံုးလတစ္ႀကိမ္
ေဒၚလာ ၃၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ကုန္သည္ ့ေဆးတစ္မ်ဴိးထုိးေနခဲ ့ရပါတယ္....
သူမရဲ ့မုိးထုိးေနသည္ ့အရပ္ႀကီးေႀကာင္ ့အသက္ ၁၉ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ရွိ မိန္းကေလးဟာ ေက်ာင္းမွာလည္းအခက္
အခဲေတြေတြ ့ရကာ တစ္ၿခားေက်ာင္းသူ၊ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား၏အနုိင္က်င္ ့မွဳမ်ားလည္းခံရၿပီး တစ္သက္တာ
အထီးက်န္ေနရမည္ ့အေၿခအေနလည္းရွိေနပါေတာ ့တယ္...

" ကြ်န္မဟာတစ္ကယ္ ့ကုိစုိးရိမ္ေႀကာင္ ့လန္ ့စရာလူတစ္ဦးလုိခံစားမိပါတယ္... ေက်ာင္းသူ၊ ေက်ာင္းသား
ေတြက ကြ်န္မကုိအနုိင္က်င္ ့ၿပီး နာမည္မ်ဴိးစံုေနာက္ေၿပာင္ေခၚေ၀ၚႀကပါတယ္...
ဒါေပမယ္ ့ေက်ာင္းကထြက္ၿပီးကတည္းက ေန၇တာပုိၿပီးအေႏွာက္အယွက္ကင္းကာ သက္ေတာင္ ့သက္သာ
ရွိရပါေတာ ့တယ္...အခုေတာ ့ကုိယ္ ့ဘ၀နဲ ့ကုိယ္ေနသားႀကေနပါၿပီ...လြယ္ေတာ ့မလြယ္ပါဘူး..." လုိ ့သူမ
ကေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

ေဖေဖရယ္၊ ေမေမရယ္...သမီးငယ္ မထန္းပင္ရယ္...

Malee dwarfs her mother, Ji and father, Mam

 

 သူမရပ္ကရွည္လြန္းလို ့တယ္လီဖံုးရံုေတာင္ မဆန္ ့လို ့အၿပင္ထြက္ေၿပာရရွာတယ္...

She is so tall she cannot fit inside a phone box

သူမရဲ ့ဦးေနွာက္အႀကိတ္ေႀကာင္ ့လည္း မလီ ဟာအခုဆုိအၿမင္အာရံုလည္း ခ်ဴိ ့တဲ ့ခဲ ့ရရွာပါၿပီ...
" ကြ်န္မ မွတ္မိသမွ်ေတာ ့ကြ်န္မဟာ သူမ်ားထက္ပုိရွည္ေနခဲ့တာၿဖစ္ၿပီး ေဆးေတြေသာက္ေန၊ ထုိးေနရ
တာလည္း ေန ့စဥ္လုပ္ေနက်ၿဖစ္ေနပါၿပီ...
ဒါေပမယ္ ့အသက္ပုိႀကီးလာတာနဲ ့အမွ် မ်က္ေစ ့လည္းပုိလို ့မၿမင္နုိင္ေအာင္ၿဖစ္လာတာမုိ ့သြားသြားလာ
လာလုပ္ဖုိ ့ေတာင္ ေတာ္ေတာ္ခက္ခဲ ့ေနပါၿပီ..." လုိ ့လည္းသူမကဆုိပါတယ္...
၎တုိ ့အေနႏွင္ ့သမီးၿဖစ္သူအတြက္ အတတ္နုိင္ဆံုးႀကဳိးစားလုပ္ေဆာင္ေပးခဲ ့ေပမယ္ ့ေငြေရးေႀကးေရးအ
ေနနဲ ့ကေတာ ့အေတာ္ရုန္းကန္ေနႀကရပါတယ္လို ့မိခင္ၿဖစ္သူကဆုိပါတယ္...
" သူ ့ကုိေပးတဲ ့ထုိးေဆးက အရပ္ဆက္ၿပီးမရွည္ေအာင္တစ္ကယ္ ့ကုိတားဆီးနုိင္ပါတယ္...ဒါေပမယ္ ့ေစ်း
ေတာ ့အလြန္ႀကီးပါတယ္..." လုိ  ့သူမကေၿပာၿပခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

အႀကိတ္ဆက္မႀကီးၿပီး၊ အရပ္လည္းဆက္ၿပီးရွည္မလာေစဖုိ ့သံုးလတစ္ခါေဆးထုိးေနရပါတယ္...

Malee has to take drugs every three months to prevent a tumour from growing, thus preventing her from growing any taller

   ကမာၻ ့အေသးဆံုးလူသားေလး နီေပါနုိင္ငံမွ၊ ခါဂ်င္ဒရာသာပါး ႏွင္ ့၂၀၀၈ ခုနွစ္၊ ဧၿပီလက

ေတြ ့စံုၿပီး အမွတ္တရဓါတ္ပံုရုိက္ခဲ ့စဥ္

United by height: Malee met the world's shortest man, Khagendra Thapa Magar, 18, in April 2008

" သူမအေနႏွင္ ့သံုးလ သုိ ့မဟုတ္ ေၿခာက္လ တစ္ခါ အၿမဲတမ္းေဆးထုိးဖုိ ့လုိအပ္တာၿဖစ္ေပမယ္ ့ေဆးဖုိး
လည္းအၿမဲမတတ္နုိင္တာမုိ ့သူမအရပ္ဆက္ၿပီးရွည္ေနသလားလို ့လည္းမသိေတာ ့ပါဘူး..." လို ့မိခင္ၿဖစ္သူ
ကဆုိပါတယ္...
ေလာေလာဆယ္ေတာ ့ မလီ ရဲ ့အေၿခအေနဟာ ေက်ာင္းထြက္ၿပီးေနာက္ ပံုမွန္ၿပန္ၿဖစ္ေနၿပီၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
" ကေလးေတြက ကြ်န္မကုိ နာမည္မ်ဴိးစံုေလွာင္ေၿပာင္ၿပီးေခၚႀကပါတယ္...ဒါေပမယ္ ့ညစ္ပတ္စုတ္ပဲတဲ ့မလီ
လုိ ့ေခၚတာကုိေတာ ့ဘာေႀကာင္ ့မွန္းကြ်န္မနားမလည္ပါဘူး...တစ္ကယ္ေတာ့သူတုိ ့တစ္ေတြသာ ညစ္
က်ယ္က်ယ္နုိင္ႀကတာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
ဒါေႀကာင္ ့လည္းကြ်န္မအရမ္း၀မ္းနည္းခဲ ့ရပါတယ္... သူငယ္ခ်င္းလည္း အရမ္းရွိခ်င္ပါတယ္...ကစားေဖာ္
ကစားဖက္ရေအာင္ေပါ ့...ဒါေပမယ္ ့ဘယ္သူမွကြ်န္မကုိအဖက္မလုပ္ႀကပါဘူး...
ကံေကာင္းေထာက္မစြာပဲ ကြ်န္မမွာ ဆရာေကာင္းတစ္ေယာက္ရွိခဲ့ရၿပီးကူညီေပးခဲ့ပါတယ္...အခုေတာ့လည္း
ဘယ္သူႏွင့္မွအဆက္အသြယ္မရွိေတာ ့ပါဘူး..." လို ့သူမကေၿပာၿပခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

သူမဟာ တစ္ခ်ိန္လံုးနီးပါး မိသားစုနဲ ့သာေနထုိင္လွ်က္ရွိပါတယ္...အထူးသၿဖင္ ့အသက္ သံုးႏွစ္အရြယ္ရွိ
ညီမငယ္ၿဖစ္သူ ေဒါင္ရြမ္ ကေလးနဲ ့ေပါ ့....
" အိမ္မွာေတာ ့အေမ ့ကုိအိမ္အလုပ္ေတြကူၿပီးလုပ္ေပးပါတယ္...ထမင္း၊ဟင္း၀ိုင္းခ်က္ေပးပါတယ္...ဒါထက္
ပုိၿပီးလည္းမလုပ္တတ္ပါဘူး...
ကြ်န္မမွာရည္းစားလည္းတစ္ခါမွ မထားခဲ့ရပါဘူး...ကြ်န္မလုိလူအတြက္ အိမ္ေထာင္ၿပဳဖုိ ့ဆုိတာလည္းၿဖစ္
နုိင္မယ္မထင္ပါတယ္...လူကသူမ်ားထက္ပုိၿပီး ထူးေနတာကုိး...
အေဖကေတာ့ကြ်န္မကုိအလြန္ပဲ ဂရုစုိက္၊ စုိးရိမ္ပါတယ္...တစ္ေယာက္တည္းလည္းဘယ္ေတာ့မွေပးမသြား
ပါဘူး...ကြ်န္မရဲ ခႏၶာကုိယ္ကေလးေတာ ့အထုိင္အထဆုိယင္ တစ္ေယာက္တည္းမရဘူးေလ၊ အကူအညီနဲ ့
မွ ရတာကုိး...
ကြ်န္မကေတာ ့အသက္ ၁၉ ႏွစ္အရြယ္တစ္ၿခားလူငယ္ေတြလုိပဲေနခ်င္ပါတယ္....ေပ်ာ္ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ရႊင္နဲ ့ကိုယ္ ့
ဘ၀ကုိယ္တည္ေဆာက္ၿပီးေတာ ့ေပါ ့...ဒါေပမယ္ ့ေလာကႀကီးဆုိတာကလည္း အစုိးမရတာပါပဲေလ..."လုိ ့
သူမကေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
မလီ ဟာ ကမာၻ ့အရပ္အရွည္ဆံုးဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္မိန္းကေလးအၿဖစ္ ၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဇန္န၀ါရီလမွာ ကမာၻ ့ထူး
ဆန္းမွတ္တမ္း၊ ဂင္းနက္စ္ အဖဲြ ့မွတရား၀င္အသိအမွတ္ၿပဳ၊ မွတ္တမ္းတင္ခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
သူမဟာ ဘရာဇီးနုိင္ငံမွ အရပ္ ၆ ေပ၊ ၉ လက္မရွိ အယ္လီဆနီေဆးလ္ဗားလ္ ထက္ တစ္လက္မပုိရွည္လုိ ့
ထုိဘဲြ ့ထူးကုိရရွိခဲ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...

Towering head and shoulders above her parents, this giant teenager is the tallest in the world at a whopping 6ft 10 in and she could still be growing.
Weighing in at 20.5 stone, Malee Duangdee from eastern Thailand knew she was different from a young age, growing much faster than her school friends.
At the age of nine, her mother, Ji, 40, took her to see a doctor because she noticed a difference between her daughter and her friends and she wanted to make sure there was nothing seriously wrong with her.
Medics found a brain tumour that was pressing on a nerve. This caused a hormone imbalance which meant she never stopped growing - and now she has to have an injection that costs £2,000 every three months to control her growth.
Her height brought the 19-year-old problems while she was at school and she suffered from bullies and has memories of a lifetime of loneliness.
She said: 'I used to feel like a freak, schoolchildren used to bully me and call me names. But since leaving school I've tried to feel more comfortable with who I am. I've got used to life on my own, but it's hard.'
As a result of her tumour, Malee has lost her sight. 'I've been tall for as long as I can remember and taking medication is part of my daily life.
'But as I've got older my eyesight has got worse and it's really difficult for me to get around.'
Her mother said that they try to do their best by their daughter, but they struggle financially: 'The injections have really helped to control her growth but they are expensive.
'She is supposed to have an injection every three to six months, but we can't always afford them so we are not sure if she's still growing.'
Malee's condition appears to be under control for the moment and since leaving school her life has turned round.
'All the kids used to call me names, the one I could never understand was "Dirty Malee". They were always so nasty.
'It would make me so sad. I was desperate to have some friends to play with but they all ignored me.
'Thankfully I had a good teacher who tried to help me and now I have nothing to do with them.'
Most of her time is now spent with her family, particularly her three-year-old sister, Daoruang.
'I help my mother around the house and cook meals. I don't do much.
'I've never had a boyfriend. I don't think marriage is possible for someone like me, I'm just too different.
'My father gets very worried about me, he doesn't let me go anywhere alone because sometimes I need help getting up, I'm pretty heavy.
'But I'd love to be like any other 19-year-old and live alone, build a life for myself and have fun but who knows what will happen.'

Malee was officially recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest girl in January 2009 knocking Brazilian Elisany Silva off the top spot. She was just 6ft 9in tall.