Hey all you tall girls!

kellylmt

kellylmt

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Do you consider your height a blessing or a curse?
I'm almost 5'11" and I go back and forth on this. Other people say i'm lucky because I can "get away with" more weight because i'm tall. I say it sucks because I don't even notice weight gain until its too late. I don't have that "oh I gained 10lbs now my pants dont fit" warning. Its more like "oh I gained 30lbs, i think my pants might be getting snug"
My friends think i'm lucky because I can wear a 14 when i'm 180 pounds. I'm like yeah, but i'll never, ever fit into what the "little people" wear at their definition of "thin". Frankly I'd have a heart attack if I ever got into anything smaller than a 10. its hard to tell under the fluff, but my hips are just flat out bigger than theirs and I have for lack of a better phrase, just more TO me than that. and if I hear one more skinny girl whine about how she can't fit into her 2's, I might end up in jail :willy_nilly:
 
I hate tall women because I am actually really attracted to tall girls and I'm only 5'9.

Don't pay attention to sizes. Pay attention to your body composition and how you look in the mirror!
 
I'm 5'8". I don't like being that size as most girls I know want to be a dress size 6. I could never be healthy and get into a dress size 8 (this is UK sizes btw and in proper shops, not the Primark-size8=size12 clothes, its Selfridges or any other proper clothes store). I also cannot get into a size M or ever a size S. This hurts as its hard to see the difference, it hurts to know I will never be that small, and it hurts even more when girls scream because they are actually a size 10. I would kill to be that small, despite the size difference, I know they will always fit into smaller clothes then me as they are shorter but its knowing what the size difference is. Does a mere 8 inches really mean they will be several dress sizes smaller then I can ever be?
 
soooo you hate tall women because you are shorter than them, but you tell me to not pay attention to size?
silly panda.
 
(*^-^) Well, I mean pants size.

My EX was 5'11 and she wore heels!!! I felt like a midget to be perfectly honest.
 
I'm 5'8 and hit that height in late high school and stayed there. Being one of the tallest, and being overweight meant I seemed so much bigger than everyone, overshadowed them kind of thing, well literally :)

As I got older and heavier I felt enormous and that led to me having a completely warped sense of proportion and how big I actually was, so that when I reached a healthy weight I still thought I was huge, when reality was I could pass for a 'normal' sized person, just couldn't see it. I ended up the same size as a good friend of mine and we went clothes shopping together, and while I looked at her in the same top as me and thought OMG how small is your waist, I looked at myself and thought, you look huge. :( Silly now I think back on it!

So funnily enough I think of my height now as more of a blessing, yes I am overweight and larger in general, but people are genuinely surprised by my weight because I do 'carry it well' and it's more evenly dispersed over my larger area LOL.

I agree about the little peoples clothes, some styles are just never going to work for the girl who is genuinely wider/hippier/broader, but I think it's all about how you carry it off, cut the tag out and forget the number, if you know you look hot does it really matter what size it actually is?
 
I'm a big girl too - 5'11 - and can definitely relate! Being a tall girl comes with a host of social stigmas. I feel less feminine then shorter more petite girls, and it certainly doesn't help that I have wide shoulders and am on the heavy side. If I could, I'd rather be shorter. I hate being that person who towers over everyone else in a lineup, and I hate not being able to date the 50% of men who are shorter then me our of sheer awkwardness. I think if I lost more weight i'f be more comfortable with my height, and I wouldn't feel like such a giant.
 
I'm 5ft 9" and I enjoy being tall so much that I happily wear 4 -5" heels and look even taller.

Upsides of being tall...
- we have fabulously long legs!
- we can see where we're going in a crowd
- we look graceful & elegant in long dresses
- we are never overlooked
- a short person will think twice about trying to mug us!
- we carry any excess weight well
- we can sashay!

Downsides...
- knee length skirts are above the knee on us
- long boots can be too short & not fit right
- we can feel huge next to a petite woman
- not too many people can look us in the eye!

Still, I'd rather be tall than short. As for short men - well, if my height bothers them then they are not the right man for me!

Attitude is everything!
 
I'm 1.77m (5'9.5ish?) and yeah, I get the "omg... you don't look like you weight that much!" I'm a 14 at the mo', but I'd be happy to get into a size 12 and then a size 10... but I don't think I'd ever be able to get to an 8. I have an arse, hips and boobs... and not matter if I'm fat or thin, it's not gonna change. My boyfriend is only a little bit taller than me and so when I wear heels I look a bit taller but he doesn't care.

Being tall is better than being short though. Only downside is making sure pants and tops are long enough... which is okay to achieve the way fashion is right now. But I look at size S or XS sometimes and they look like kids clothes!

I guess short and petite has a "cuteness" factor, but when your tall... you can be hot and sexy, esp in heels ;)
 
I'm 5'10 and 170 pounds :) I love being tall most of the time. When I was bigger I felt huge and like I was the centre of attention because I was so much taller than all my friends. Now that I'm getting smaller I feel more confident about my height. My boyfriend is only 5'9 so he calls me his Amazon Woman and such *grins*

I agree with the not noticing weight gain. I put on 40lbs during college and didn't realise! I knew I wasn't skinny but until I saw some pretty awful photos of me..I didn't realise! And 40lbs is a butt-ton!

I know, as a tall girl, that unless I'm like a supermodel who eats a lettuce leaf a day, I'm never going to fit into all those beautiful size 6 (UK) dresses my tiny friends wear. But I can wear heels and tower over everyone and look damn sexy whilst doing it!

YAY FOR TALL GIRLS!
 
5'8" girl here...I've never actually thought much about my height, except to feel abnormally tall when I wear heels around short people ;) But I actually love that feeling...it's very striking, and I enjoy turning heads. Like Spinner1964 says- our legs look amazing and we're elegant. I never give the clothing size difference any thought- obviously a tall woman will always wear a larger size because we're simply larger! A size 10 at our height looks perfectly healthy and fit but for a 5'4" woman it would probably look borderline overweight. It's just a number! Also, I feel the need to mention that I have mostly dated men shorter than me or the same height. My hubby is 5'6" and it's never bothered either of us :)
 
I don't mind the being tall so much as the not noticing the weight gain until its too late that comes with it. I suppose part of it thats good though is I gain just a little bit everywhere instead of all on my waist or all on my hips, so I still look proportionate and men still think I look attractive because of the whole waist/hips ratio thing. In fact the only reason I noticed my weight gain at all was when I was like "hm... where is my waist going??" lol. Little did I know I was 250lbs and my "waist" was something like a 41 at the time. As of today i'm 200lbs, 26 away from a healthy weight (according to the BMI anyway, take that for what its worth) and my waist is a 33, just 1 inch from being a healthy size. Wee!
 
Besides not noticing weight gain... I also find it's harder to notice weight loss until you've gone down a decent amount. No one realised the difference in my body till I was about 8kg (around 18 pounds) lighter.

And... it's getting annoying trying to find pants with a long leg when you go down a size... not much longer... just 2 cm or so. I think I'm just going to drop the hems in my casual pants.
 
I envy all you tall girls. I have trouble just reaching the bottom shelf of the top-cabinets in our kitchen. Also..I had to sit on a pillow when I first started driving because I was too small..>.>
 
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