Woman with the world's largest feet says she turns down foot fetish photo requests

The Guinness World Record holder for the woman with the largest feet in the world has said she's not interested in catering to the foot fetish crowd, despite some of the messages they send her.

Texas resident Tanya Herbert has the largest confirmed foot size of any living woman, with a right foot that's 13.03in (33.1cm) and a slightly shorter left foot at 12.79in (32.5cm).

When she wears shoes she's got to go for a women's size 18 in the US, or if she's buying men's shoes it's size 16 or 17 depending on the brand as they're never quite consistent.

Standing at 6 foot 9 inches (205cm) Tanya is also pretty close to being the tallest woman in the world, though Turkey's Rumeysa Gelgi takes that particular record at 7 feet and 0.7 inches (215 cm).

The Guinness World Record holder explained that a handful of the comments she gets on social media are from men with a foot fetish asking if she'll sell them pictures of her feet.

She said: "Five percent of men that do follow me are the ones that send the strange and interesting comments into my inbox asking if I would sell them pictures of my feet.

"I never got on social media to be an object of affection or anything like that, or to go into a foot fetish world."

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Tanya explained that her foot size meant 'going to the stores was out of the question' as she could never find a shoe shop which stocked anything that fit properly.

Always having to buy shoes online, Tanya revealed that growing up she often had to buy men's tennis shoes to find something which fit properly.

She would like more size options to be available to women, as getting shoes that fit can be 'extremely unaffordable' for women with larger feet.

Explaining that 'women have struggled with size 12 and 13 trying to find shoes', she hopes shoemakers will take notice and provide more options in the future.

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Tanya said that despite the difficulties involved in finding a decent pair of shoes, she was never bullied for her height or foot size growing up.

She puts her world beating characteristics down to her family as 'my mom was 6'5 and my dad is 6'4 so I had no choice but to be tall'.

Plenty empathised with the difficulties that come with having large feet, with one woman revealing she had to go to a 'special shoe store' when she was younger and saying 'the struggle is real'.

Another said they 'feel comforted' by Tanya's struggles to find a decent pair of shoes that actually fit, while someone else said they were 'not surprised' that she had such huge feet when she was so tall.

Someone else joked that Tanya's feet were actually 'over a foot long', making the unit of measurement a bit redundant.