There could also be greater than six toes between them, however the world’s tallest man and shortest lady discovered frequent floor after they have been reunited this week.
Sultan Kosen, who measures 8ft 3 (251cm), towered over his fellow Guinness World Report holder Jyoti Amge, who measures simply over 2ft (62.8cm) tall, after they met in California on Monday.
Sitting cross-legged collectively on the ground, their vastly completely different statures couldn’t have been extra obvious.
One in every of Mr Kosen’s toes is 14.3in (36.5cm) and measures greater than half of Ms Amge’s peak.
The pair beforehand met in Cairo in 2018, the place they visited the Pyramids of Giza collectively.
Mr Kosen, from Turkey, formally turned the world’s tallest residing man in 2009 when he was found to be greater than 10cms taller than Bao Xishun, who held the file on the time.
He additionally holds the file for largest arms on a residing individual, each measuring 11.22 in (28.5 cm) from the wrist to the tip of the center finger.
Mr Kosen, 41, grew usually till he was ten, however a tumour triggered him to develop a medical situation known as pituitary gigantism.
The file holder, who boasts 241,000 followers on Instagram, wants specifically made garments and sleeps in a three-metre lengthy mattress.
Indian actress Ms Amge, 30, is shorter than the typical two-year-old and weighed 11lbs (5kg) when she was 18.
Her small measurement is attributable to a type of dwarfism known as achondroplasia, which suggests she’s going to by no means develop past a sure peak.
When Ms Amge was 15 she was awarded the file title of shortest residing feminine teenager.
Three years later she turned the shortest residing feminine on this planet, a title she has held ever since.
Ms Amge, who has 1.4million Instagram followers, achieved her dream of changing into the world’s shortest actress after she appeared in US TV collection American Horror Story.
