I agree, I do think there is more pressure to be thin when you're tall. (Don't get me wrong, I think there is pressure to be thin no matter your height) I mean, in my opinion, look at models. All they want are super tall, super thin women.

Yes! I hate it
I'm already 6ft 2, but with all this extra weight I look like a shed.

*sigh* To be thin and graceful would be lovely.

Totally! If a shorter girl has some extra weight on her, she can still be considered cute and adorable. You get a tall girl with the same BMI and she's considered fat or just "big". It is so much worse when you're tall, asian and not tiny.

Yes there is more pressure. A lot of men are already intimidated by a tall woman but a big & tall woman they run from. When I was much smaller I noticed that men weren't so afraid to approach me but now that I added on all these pounds they don't even look my way and Im the same height just alot of wider.

I NEVER THOUGHT...

I Always whished i had more bulk cause the tall ones were the hot ones.
F the short ****! They whine too Much!

I agree that we can get away with a little more extra pounds than the average and shorter woman. But I feel it's harder because since I'm tall people expect me to be skinner because I must model or be heavier because I play basketball.
The pounds crept up on me slowly. Always being on the skinner side I wanted to be curvier, and oh did I get it, and in a lot of other places I didn't want it, lol. Now when I tell people I'm trying to lose 30lbs they look at me crazy. But I already weight 214 according to my doctor, so 30lbs wont hurt. Sorry I'm starting to ramble, getting off topic a little... I'm new here and so happy to have found this group.

oh and I just wanted to add.....I met a guy who was 6'7......He told me that he wasn't interested in me because he prefers shorter girls. Are you serious? I'm barely 5'10.

Sometimes I sort of get the feeling that your figure is more likely to be compared with a models body if you are tall and people tend to think that you should try to weigh less just because you could look like a model just if you tried hard enough.. weird world;)
Uh and even I get the "wow you are too tall for me" although I am 5'9, some guys really seem intimidated by taller girls..

Sometimes I sort of get the feeling that your figure is more likely to be compared with a models body if you are tall and people tend to think that you should try to weigh less just because you could look like a model just if you tried hard enough.. weird world;)
Uh and even I get the "wow you are too tall for me" although I am 5'9, some guys really seem intimidated by taller girls..

Or they just tell you "Oh, you're so tall you should be a model!" No, I'm not 30 lbs underweight, I can't be!

I feel like, if you're short, you can be short and "round" and cute OR short and thin and cute, and if you're tall you can be thin and cute but you cannot be tall, big, and cute. You're just a big cow, then. It's hard enough to find a taller guy if you're tall, but if you're a bit plump then you're just that "huge girl". :grumble:

I'm on the "shorter" end of tall at 5'9 myself, and I dated several guys that couldn't "handle" my height too... but please don't think models are all tall and thin. I'm a photographer and I work models on a regular basis. some of the ones that you might think are 5'8"+ and only maybe 120 lbs... thats just as rude as to walk up to anyone in here and say "ooh, you're 170 lbs? Thats so FAT!" I'm not trying to come across rude my any means! Quite the opposite! I talked to one of my models while she was being painted for a themed shoot, being tall too, she warmed up and we were discussing tall-chick-probs like clothing... my model was 6'2 and 168 lbs, and surprisingly, she was incredibly insecure about the stigma that "all models have eating disorders" because her height and build thinned her appearance, despite being very healthy and being a size 8... I compared her pictures next to another model- who did happen to have an eating disorder, was only 5'5", wore a 00 and weighed 89 lbs (fyi, discovery of an eating disorder fired her from the project. That is NOT tolerated or supported within the industry!) except for the fact that my 6'2 gal had larger boobs, they were proportionately the same because of the lenses used. Photography is the greatest lie ever shown, so please don't blame the models, they're just tall girls who are annoyed with sleeve-length too :flowerforyou:

No kidding! I am a little over 5'10. I am not taller than my fiance (he's 6'2) but I certainly feel so much larger than him. He's always been relatively slim and his weight stays steady. But I have about 50 or 60 pounds on him. Like some of you have said, taller girls can carry more weight, but 60 pounds is a crazy difference between us. *stomping feet in a temper tantrum* I don't like it!

so agree with you My hubby is 6'2 normally about 215, Im 5'10 285. I just always wonder what its like to be small Ive been 5'10 since I was 12. but side note I LOVE MY HEIGHT!!!!!!!! the weight can go though. lol
PLUS: I've never been comfortable with being picked up always thought i was to big and would hurt someone but I secretly would love it. I think I would anything right now to be smaller then him, for so many reasons. lol

No one ever believes you need to lose the weight you say you need to lose. So I don't tell people how much I want to lose. Problem solved!

I've lost 25 pounds since last summer and I'm sure hardly anyone notices the difference.

Yes, Yes, Yes! I'm 5"10 and have a large frame- great if you want to play football. Not great if you want to appear demure and feminine. I've always been conscious of this fact.

Mmm not more pressure to loose weight or anything, more or less get told we carry it better...
I've always wanted to be short to look amazing in high heels. I love high heels.