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Sandy Allen, with her mother Jackie and her 12-year-old brother Michael, at home in Niagara Falls in 1980. Sandy Allen (1955-2008) held the Guinness Book of World Records title of World's Tallest Woman for 18 years. Her abnormal height was due to a tumour in her pituitary gland. She was 7 ft. 7? in. in height and wrote a book called Cast a Giant Shadow.