Comments on: Are You Insecure About Your Height?

By: Bliss Harmony

Bliss Harmony — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:45:32 +0000

I’m 5′5 and I wouldn’t say I’m insecure about my height. Sure sometimes I wish I were taller but who doesn’t? The only times I really have problems are getting pants, (don’t get me started on capris) reaching things on high shelves and when my little brother (who is 6 foot something) uses my head as an arm rest…..grrrr lol

By: CurvyChica

CurvyChica — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:29:34 +0000

Whoa, this whole discussion was really eye-opening for me. I had no idea so many people felt insecure about their height.

I’m only 5′1″, and wear a size 10 petite. The only time my height worries me is when I need something from a high shelf, or when I go shopping. It’s so darn hard to find clothes! (Although it actually, seems to have gotten easier in the last few years. Maybe that’s just me?)

Physical inconveniences aside, I’ve never had a problem with being short, or received negative comments about my size.

I do think it would be a good thing if we could expand our standard of beauty a bit, vis-a-vis height. It would be nice if short, beautiful actors, models, and dancers could easily find work…

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:01:24 +0000

I’m around 5′7″- 5′8″. I’m actually not real sure on how tall I am. I try and avoid being measured My whole life even as a child I’ve noticed I was taller than the kids around me. I ‘m also pretty skinny around 135 in weight. I’m actually insecure about both my height and my weight.. I’m currently trying to gain more weight. I use to not be able to stand short girls who would complain about being shorter..or even comment that they love being short. I found it annoying and made me feel more insecure growing up. I would love to just be normal height 5′4″- 5′5″, but it’s not like i can do anything about it. I recently discovered my biological father. He is around 6′4″-6′4″ and my mom clams to be 5′7″ so I really can’t do anything about it. I’m almost 22, but I have fears sometimes that I will get even taller because my father is so tall. My grandmother was also around 6′. My step dad use to always saw I was growing like a weed. I hated when he’d say I might be taller than him when I grow up..it use to make me feel manly and awkward like I was doing something wrong. I use to eat less healthy food and not sleep as much to stunt my growth.

Honestly I just need to get over it and have more confidence it’s just hard to not look around and wish I fit in visually with the average girl even my boyfriend is almost the same height as me. I’ve never dated someone more than 1-2″ taller than myself…

By: C

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:27:45 +0000

When I was younger I used to HATE my height. But now I don’t mind my height. In fact, during Halloween I’m glad I’m short, because I can go trick-or-treating without getting strange looks.

My weight doesn’t bother me as much now most of the time, but I do get annoyed when someone points out how short I am.

*Although, I do still wish I was about 3 to 5 inches taller, because I’d have the figure I’m supposed to have (short and stocky is NOT cute).

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:38:43 +0000

i’m 6 foot and get picked on occasionally “stringy” “BFG” or “girrafe”
always known as the tall one. and it’s like people think youre deaf too cause all i hear is “the size of her!” one time i was out with my friend and a group of guys were behind me and started going “lads look at the size of this one” and started laughing and talk about embarrassing! im soo insecure, and intimidate loads of people, even to the extend in which people avoid me or ignore me, or just watch me like im not human. and when they comment on my tallness i blush like mad cause theyre just higlighting how little i fit in and remind me of how much of an outcast i am.
so i get stared at ALL the time, im extremely skinny so i cant wear dresses cause my knees too knobbly.
i will never get a guy cause no guy had ever asked me out, and im too insecure to date smaller guys.
and is it weird i have abnormaly small feet for my height… a size 7 ??
i dont have the best facial structure so its not like i can be a model either…
soo its kinda depressing at the minute…
i understand you petite girls too cause my best friend is 5 foot (we look odd together) but she hates it and she gets picked on often aswell…. x

By: CassandraSays

CassandraSays — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:45:23 +0000

I’m 5ft 2 1/2 and sort of medium build for my height (sz 8), kind of hourglassy with big swimmer’s shoulders. My perspective is kind of wierd because I was really tall as a kid and then when puberty hit I stopped growing upwards and started growing outwards. I was 5ft tall at age 9. It was really freaking wierd to see people I’d always been taller than start towering over me.

Actually I’ve always wondered how much of my bolshy personality is based on the fact that, internally, I don’t see myself as a small person. I’m like a yorkie that thinks it’s a rotweiller – assertive, oddly unafraid of confrontations with men, not easily physically intimidated. I’ve often wondered if the reason I’m not particularly scared of men in general is that, up until about 12 or 13, I could kick the asses of most boys I knew. I’d be curious about the perspective of tall women, how that affects the way they relate to men.

I do live in heels most o the time because I get tired of random people doing the “aw you’re just adorable!” thing. Also my long term ex was 6ft5 and without heels walking down the street with him was kind of ridiculous. I always sort of wistfully wanted to be a classic ectomorph, but I don’t think it was the height as such I wanted, more the overall willowy look.

Oh, and I don’t have a lot of the feet not reaching the ground etc problems a lot of people my height seem to because my proportions are sort of wierd – long legs, short torso. So I can wear normal length pants without alteration if I have heels on (actual inseam without heels is 30 inches), and my arms are pretty long, no need to alter jackets. Which ironically enough means that, at under 5ft3, nothing in the petites dept fits me. Yay standardised clothing sizes which seem to come in one size fits nobody.

By: Erica D.

Erica D. — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:46:08 +0000

I am 5′8″ and thin, but I do feel uncomfy about my height. I am taller than all my friends and I feel odd wearing heels to work because I tower above everyone except one guy in my department. I wish I was somewhere in the 5′4-5′6 range.

By: Alice

Alice — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:08:49 +0000

I’m just shy of 5′7″. I grew tall quite early, and as a child was consistently around the 95th percentile for my age, but I was also quite thin. My height didn’t really bother me until I started fussing about my weight (at 14) and comparing myself to girls and women who were shorter as well as thinner. I didn’t just feel too heavy, I felt altogether too large, too much. It was a difficult age because some of us were fully developed, at adult heights and weights, and some were physically still children, which made comparison incredibly uncomfortable.

By: Sparky

Sparky — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:50:46 +0000

I’m 5′8″ and 140 lbs. I’m very insecure about both my height and weight. I’m the tallest in my class and constantly feel like a giant next to my classmates. Everyone is so tiny, I just feel large and awkward. It would be different if i was some tall, slim cutie. But its not. I’m average looking and clunky. :(

i dont like to admit my insecurities; i like to think myself secure if anything. But that’s a front. Inside I not happy w/ my appearacnce.

By: msruth

msruth — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:26:20 +0000

On the otherhand, I’m quite clumsy and have wide shoulders, and I often have this too big, too broad, taking up too much space kind of thing. Especially since I live with two tiny chinese girls and occasionally knock the smaller of the two over when I’m excited to see her and go to hug her. Also, I used to be obsessed with ballet and was told that it would never happen for me because I was too fat and too tall.

sorry to post twice, only half my comment went up for some reason