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Did You Know that Ella Abomah is the Tallest Black Woman?

BY Lynnet Okumu · March 31, 2022 12:03 pm

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Born in South Carolina in the USA in 1865 to slave parents, Ella Grigsby (real name), grew to become an international celebrity and traveled all over the world as the tallest woman in the world.

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The giantess, who was also described as the tallest hot and most beautiful African lady, toured most of continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Cuba, and South America throughout her 30-year career wearing incredibly expensive and vast attire, which made her appear exquisite and royal at all times.

Ella Williams, commonly known by her stage name, Mme Abomah, was an extraordinary woman in the 1800s, who stood over eight feet and could easily support the weight of a man in her outstretched arm.

Lady Abomah was born into a family where none of her siblings ever reached her height. Her stage name came from Abomey, the capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey, now Benin. According to her manager Ella Abomah was “a princess, an African warrior but above all an Amazon from Dahomey, one of King Dahomey’s real bodyguards.”

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Born in South Carolina in the USA in 1865 to slave parents, Ella Grigsby (real name), grew to become an international celebrity and traveled all over the world as the tallest woman in the world.

She dropped her second name Grigsby, which was the last name of her parents’ slaveowners, and adopted the last name of her employers, Elihu and Harriet Williams, a family she worked with while in her teens.

The giantess, who was also described as the tallest hot and most beautiful African lady, toured most of continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Cuba, and South America throughout her 30-year career wearing incredibly expensive and vast attire, which made her appear exquisite and royal at all times.

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