A woman in the US is suffering from an incurable growth syndrome that makes her body grow at an incredibly fast rate.
At the age of twenty, the physical growth of most people tends to come to a halt, or at least slows down.
This was not the case for Tanya Angus.
At the age of 20, Tanya noticed her clothes and shoes no longer fit her. She was continuing to grow at an astonishing rate.
Now 30, Tanya has since been diagnosed with a very-rare human-hormone-growth syndrome called acromegaly.
"I feel so ugly," said Angus.
"I kinda got scared when I couldn't fit into my shoes anymore."
In only a few days after she turned 20, her voice deepened and her face expanded.
Her weight gain was inexplicable, going from 52kg to 217kg in ten years in a 400 per cent increase.
She also grew taller - from 180cm to almost two metres.
"She was a perfectly normal child growing up," her mother said.
Doctors discovered a benign but inoperable tumour lodged in her pituitary gland secreting excessive amounts of growth hormone.
It is a condition that affects one in five hundred thousand people with most responding to treatment, but not Tanya.
"They say I'm the only person in the world that they cannot control my growth with medication," said Tanya.
She is still growing.
