Andre The Giant Anthropology

Born in Grenoble, France on the date of May 19, 1946 Andre the Giant is still a very well known WWE wrestler. His father, Boris Roussimoff, and mother Marian Roussimoff were normal sized humans along with his four siblings. Andre was an odd case, he was born gigantism. This “disease” causes an overload of growth hormones to occur, which resulted Andre to constantly grow. Andre the Giant did not look at this negatively in anyway. Instead he used his “disease” to create a great career for himself. To explain what happened to Andre let’s go more into depth of what gigantism is. For the average human growth hormones are released into the bloodstream from the pituitary gland. For someone with gigantism the pituitary gland over produces growth hormones. This causes them to grow noticeably taller at a younger ages. A child with gigantism may also experience excessive sweating, sleeping …show more content…
As we all know he turned it into a career, and a pretty good one too. In the beginning of his wrestling career he was known as the “Monster Eiffel Tower” or “Monster Roussimoff”. Eduard Carpentier who was a French-Canadian wrestler saw his talent and brought him to North America. It was not until 1972 that Andre the Giant, was also known as “The eighth wonder of the world” that he signed with the World Wide Wrestling Federation. This was one of his biggest achievements. Was his career really started going, Andre performed at Madison Square Garden with the name he is more commonly known as, Andre the Giant. It was not very long until dozens of WWWF wrestlers wanted to take on the giant. This is when another one of his biggest achievements took place. He drew in a crowd of 90,000 fans, which at the time was the biggest WWE crowd at that time, wrestling against Hulk Hogan. He had a great career as a wrestler, actor, and over all great