Vegas woman who couldn't stop growing dies at 34

[Reader]

http://www.centurylink.net/news/read.php?rip_id=<[email protected]>&ps=1011

LAS VEGAS (AP) — As a teenager growing up in Las Vegas, Tanya Angus strutted along fashion runways. She was 5 feet 8 inches tall.

But at the time of her death Monday, the 34-year-old Angus stood 7 feet 2 inches and weighed about 400 pounds. She was a victim of a rare disorder called acromegaly that wouldn't let her stop growing. In children the condition is known as gigantism.

"`Mom, I don't know why I got it,'" Karen Strutynski recalled her daughter saying. "`But I guess God decided that I could handle it.'"

Handle it she did — by appearing on television specials and in the news, and talking about the condition that left her face misshapen and gave her chronic growing pains......more at link...........

 

[badhorsie]

What a brave, brave young woman. RIP Tanya Angus

 

[princesspjs]

Here's a picture of her when she was a model. Beautiful woman inside and out!

RIP :rose:

 

[Kat]

Rest in peace.

My daughters were upset by this news. They had watched her give an interview on the Dr. Oz show not too long ago. They said they found her inspirational.