The super tall family who spent £10million just to fit in their house

Daily Mirror

31-07-2025

An exceptionally tall family has found themselves with no other choice but to spend millions to build a house that is big enough for them to fit inside - after years of knocking their heads
While some people pray to be taller, for one family their towering height has brought nothing but trouble.
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Measuring between 6ft 3ins and 6ft 10ins, for the Temeras, even everyday tasks like taking a bath pose problems because they can't fit into a standard size tub.
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Getting through doorways without banging their heads is a constant annoyance, and taking a shower under a standard-sized head is no mean feat either.
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Now, the family has decided to take matters into their own hands and build a home they can all fit into, but it won't come cheap at a cost of £10million.
Their ability to go the "extra mile" and create a mega-mansion for the whole family is down to daughter Marie's success as a TikTok model who brings in £7.5 million every year. At 6ft 3ins tall, she's a foot taller than the average UK woman.
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Mum Christine, 63, - who stands at 6ft 5 - is a retired 911 operator, and dad Michael, 65, is 6ft 3, and formerly worked as an electrician. The model also has two basketballer brothers, Troy, 27, who stands at 6ft 10in and Shane, 29, who reaches 6ft 9in.
Currently, Marie lives in a £1.5 million property in Florida, with her parents living right next door in a £500,000 house that she bought them thanks to her success. But they're so sick of injuring themselves in their unsuitable homes that they're planning to knock both down and build one that is fit for purpose.
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"We're going the extra mile to make our home more comfortable to live in,' Marie explained 'Our houses are way too small for us because the ceilings are eight feet tall so we're going to knock them down.
"We're always touching the door frames, banging our heads, and having to duck," Marie, who has three million followers on Instagram, explains about life in a normal-sized home.
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"The toilets and showers are too low, we have to crouch down to wash our hair and the baths are too small to lie down in. We're going to have the ceilings and doors as tall as they can go and all the space we need."
Marie admits that sometimes things were "pretty hard" financially for the family - she also has two incredibly tall brothers, Troy, 27, and Shane, 29, who are 6ft 10 and 6ft 9 respectively.
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"We didn't have that much money growing up, so we couldn't afford to make the house bigger like I can now. My brothers would smack their heads going down the stairs every time.
"The houses we lived in were from the seventies, so we were hitting our heads on ceilings, and everything was too low, including the toilets and shower heads. We all had that problem growing up.
"We are looking forward to having a home where we don't have to hunch, crouch, or worry about hitting our heads every time we walk through a room."
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The model added, "Dad was an electrician, and he barely made anything. He made £26,000 a year, and my mom was an emergency operator, so she didn't make much more than that.
"It was pretty hard, but they did a really good job of giving us everything that we'd ever needed. They just never had any money to buy anything for themselves."
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However, after decades of her parents putting their children's needs before their own, she is thrilled to be able to return the favour, and create the megamansion for the supersized family that they have always dreamed of.
"So they really put us first. It will be nice to do this for them; they deserve it. This is something we've talked about for years, and I'm grateful I can finally make it happen for my family."
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Marie explains that her family is "happy" about her career and they have been able to retire thanks to the big bucks she is bringing in.
'My family is very grateful and happy for me and my career; they even star in some of my videos on TikTok," she says.
The plan is for the whole family of five to move into the custom mansion that Marie will have built, and never knock their heads whilst going about their days again.