Did You Know? Shrek was based on a real person, Maurice TilletMAY. 29, 2014 | Author : STARCASM STAFF
Shrek is such a cartoon exaggeration that it seems like if he were based on a real person, it would be loosely, but it turns out that the artists who worked on Shrek had a real life model that looked exactly like their green ogre with a heart of gold.
Russian-born French professional wrestler Maurice Tillet, also known as “The French Angel†is the real life Shrek. Tillet has such exaggerated features because in his twenties he developed acromegaly, a condition where the body has took much growth hormone, and the bones and tissue continue to get larger.
Here he is at age 13 before developing the disorder:
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