A BRAZILIAN model has revealed how a hidden tumour made her shoot up to almost seven feet tall - and how her shorter partner won her over.

Elisane Silva, 26, from Salinopolis , stands at a staggering six foot eight and towers over her five-foot-four husband, Francinaldo Da Silva Carvalho, 31.

But she admitted their nearly two-foot height gap doesn’t faze them - in fact, he was the one to win her over.

Elisane said: “Since I was 10 years old, I always noticed that there wasn't something quite right as I was the only one in my family and class that stood at a staggering five feet nine inches.”

Her parents, Ana Maria Ramos and Luiz Jorge, were left stunned.

“My mother is only five feet four inches and my father is just five feet seven inches, so it was a shock to our entire family wh

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