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This guy’s a shoe-in for the record books.

Jeison Orlando Rodriguez Hernandez, 20, from Maracay, Venezuela, has landed himself a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records thanks to his enormous size-26 feet.

Rodriguez Hernandez said doctors chalked up his king-sized dogs (each measures nearly 16 inches long) to an overactive pituitary gland that caused the excess growth.

As a teenager, he was bullied for his giant extremities — and he longed for normal footwear instead of his cloth shoes that had to be replaced every couple of weeks.

“These are the sorts of things I would go through. I would look at other people and say, ‘How I would like a little pair of shoes,'” he told “NowThis.”

Rodriguez Hernandez now gets his kicks from a German shoemaker who specializes in unusual sizes.

The previous record was held by Sultan Kosen, whose feet measure 14 inches long.

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Rodriguez poses with his mother, Amalia (right), his brother Erick, 21, and his nephews at their house in Maracay, Venezuela.Reuters
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