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My Giant Life

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ21065535 ↗
Source-derived summary

My Giant Life is an American reality television series that premiered on the TLC cable network, on July 14, 2015. Season 1 of the series revolved around 4 women who are taller than 6 feet 6 inches (198 cm). Season 2 follows three of the four women from the first season, with Nancy Mulkey replaced by a new woman, 6 ft 9 in (206 cm) German-born New Yorker Katja, and her 5 ft 2 in (157 cm) American wife.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “My Giant Life” as television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Giant, Life and television.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2015-07-14. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Giant, Life and television providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “My Giant Life”, the useful work is to connect “television series” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21065535. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “My Giant Life”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow My Giant Life primary sources, My Giant Life archive and Giant research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “My Giant Life”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “My Giant Life” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.