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Largest Hands and Feet On A Teenager
Sep 9, 2024
Eric Kilburn Jr. has been recently been crowned one of the largest teenagers of all time for his impressive hand spread and foot length.
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My name is Eric Kilburn and I have the world's largest hands and feet. I'm a teenager
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The doctor delivering me, he was an elderly doctor and he told my parents in all his years
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of delivering babies he has never seen a baby with feet and hands as big as mine
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I've always known I've had bigger feet and hands. I mean I've been taller and bigger than every kid
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since I was in preschool. Well our family is is quite larger than your average. I'm six foot two
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myself. My 12 year old is six foot two and of course Eric is 6'11", somewhere around that now
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This is my current shoe collection. About all of them are custom made and to give you an idea of
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the size comparison this is an average cleat. It's about 10 and a half which is average male
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size in USA. This is one of my custom cleats, a lot bigger. I think everyone goes through highs
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and lows. I mean me personally I used to be like a bully because I was bigger than everyone and
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I kind of grew out of it in like third grade and then I started like apologizing to people like
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man I did wrong by you like I'm sorry. There are lots of pros and cons of being my size
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The cons are I constantly have joint pain and like my back always hurts, my neck hurts. If I
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sleep a little bit weird I'll wake up sore but the pros are I'm usually picked first for most sports
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Whenever I'm in a store I can look over the aisles now so I can see oh that thing's there
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it's over there. There was a lot of positivity, blessings, wonderful things to come from our story
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but there's darkness as well. Some of the comments online were hard to deal with and
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you know as any teenager he had a very difficult time kind of coping with that at the beginning
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What's really wonderful is we had Shaquille O'Neal who became a really great support system for him
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and he actually reached out to him a few times and asked him you know how do I deal with this extra
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attention, the media and he actually really spent a lot of time kind of speaking life into him and
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allowing him to just see the positive sides. I had been wearing size 22. I started to grow out of them
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We made hundreds if not thousands of calls asking different shoe corporations or different shoe
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companies can you make a shoe this big. A lot of them said you have to be a collegiate or professional
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athlete sorry we can't help you. So we went to the media and Under Armour and Puma they offered to
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help us and in the meantime Shaquille O'Neal he sent me giant FedEx boxes full of clothes, shoes
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all sorts of stuff that we needed because he's a big guy too so he sent me a lot of clothes that
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were tall and big too. Eighth to ninth grade I was wearing the same pair of shoes. These are size 22
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I started to grow out of them. Shaquille O'Neal reached out and he gave me multiple pairs of shoes
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like sporting shoes or luxury boots all sorts of stuff. You wouldn't think that something as
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insignificant as just having shoes and different kinds of footwear to choose from would be something
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so impactful but that's absolutely what I'm seeing and just seeing his kind of confidence just from
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being able to walk into school with cool shoes and have his friends and peers look at those those
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are so great and then he just you see him kind of swell with pride and that's something that is
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money can't buy that. It feels surreal because I always read Guinness World Records growing up and it feels like
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somewhat exclusive to be a part of it. He makes me so proud so many ways that
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having him get this world record is just something that I'm so happy for him to have kind of in his
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repertoire of amazing things about him and it's not even close to the best thing about him though
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I love to inspire people and just to inspire people to be them and be who you are
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not hide behind something. Eric has two world records that's pretty awesome but he's still
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my big brother. Taller than you though. Because you're older than me. I'm still
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gonna stay taller than you. We'll see about that
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