A woman known for her extreme height has died at the age of 23.
Xiao Mo of Shaoyang, China, stood 7.5ft tall and boasted more than 152,000 followers on video social media platform Douyin.
She reportedly died on January 15 after succumbing to complications from a cold she had recently caught.
Mo was popular on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, for her videos documenting her daily life, and was sometimes referred to as “Hunan’s No. 1 Giantess”, local media reports.
She was four centimetres taller than NBA star Yao Ming.
She is claimed to have had a tough upbringing, as her mother abandoned her and her grandparents reared her.
According to Chinese media, Mo suffered from a variety of underlying health ailments, including heart and vision problems, which were linked to her extraordinary height.
She was apparently cremated, and it is thought that her estranged father has yet to collect her remains from the Crematory.
Her shock passing devastated her followers.
One Douyin user said online: “Have a good trip Xiao Mo. I hope you’ll be a healthy girl with loving parents in your next life.”
Someone else commented: “She and my sister were classmates in elementary school, and later in junior high school, because she was too tall and in poor health, she stopped studying.
“My sister said that she was a very good person, always helping her classmates and being very easy to get along with.”
Although Mo was supposed to be the world’s tallest woman, Rumeysa Gelgi of Turkey is actually the tallest.
Rumeysa became the world’s tallest woman when she turned 18, standing 7.7 feet tall, according to Guinness World Records.
The 25-year-old was born with Weaver syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes bone overgrowth, which accounts for her height and a variety of medical concerns, including scoliosis.