EKATERINA LISINA: I like my long legs, I like my long body.
EKATERINA LISINA: Everything about it.
EKATERINA LISINA: If you ask me, if I will
choose to be short or tall, I would choose to be tall.
COMM: This is Ekaterina Lisina. Standing at
6ft 9in tall, she is officially Russia’s tallest woman, but now she wants her tallest
title to take her even further.
EKATERINA LISINA: My legs are around 52.4 inches,
but my dream is that the Guinness Book of Records, that they measure not only
my height for the tallest model in the world, but also for the longest legs.
COMM: Having come from a tall family, Ekaterina
was encouraged to take up basketball as a child.
EKATERINA LISINA: I wanted be a model since
I was 16 years old. But at that time, I start my professional basketball career, so basically
I have to choose between modelling and basketball, and of course there was no question, because
for basketball I had talent.
COMM: She has since played for the Russian
Olympic team, gaining a bronze medal in the 2008 summer Olympics. For now, her sole focus
is on her blossoming modelling career.
EKATERINA LISINA: I think my long legs can
help my modelling career, definitely. Because there are not so many models with such long
legs, and of course they help me also in basketball, because it makes me taller than everyone else.
EKATERINA LISINA: When I was tall like 6ft,
this is when I recognised that I have problems in the shops.
EKATERINA LISINA: I used to customise the
clothes for me, because it’s really difficult to find my size, especially jeans, especially pants,
stuff like this.
LADY: I’ve never had someone as tall as
Ekaterina in my shop before. She is tall. I mean she is really tall, too tall!
EKATERINA LISINA: So, I feel really comfortable
in my body right now and I don’t have any problems about being much taller than other people.
EKATERINA LISINA: It is my dream to enter
the Guinness Book of Records, and if my dream will come true, that’s going to be awesome.
EKATERINA LISINA: I do like the attention
and I hope that after I’m going to get the title, I’m going to get even more attention.