tall girl problems

shoot, my only complaint is not always finding pants that are long enough. I also hate shopping online for them, I got to feel it on me...

Ditto.

Here here. It's all part of the age old self esteem girl issue "I have to look like THAT to be acceptably pretty". And it's all a myth. There are many ways to beautiful. You sound like you've got a good weight for height without being a coat rack .... see I did it there, I insulted skinny chicks and that's a double standard! You don't have to fit a certain mold. You sound healthy. You look pretty. Know it.

Everyday I practice telling my amazonian self that I am beautiful, even if my legs don't fit perfectly in the confines of the bus seat.

Find taller friends? I'm 5'9". My two best friends in college were 5'10" and 5'11", plus I had another female friend who was 6'6". I rarely think of myself as "tall" anymore.

shoot, my only complaint is not always finding pants that are long enough. I also hate shopping online for them, I got to feel it on me...

short rant done :happy:

This is my only complaint too! I'm 5'10 and I have one company I can get jeans from that I actually like.

It's quite ironic that my best friend is 5' and has to have everything taken up.:laugh:

oh the irony lol

nope... cause I got a "Merry Christmas, will you look at that" as I walked down the street in the city today. I have no problem being a tall, sexy girl.

I love being tall! But finding female jackets that fit my arm and body length is basically impossible thank god for feminine mens clothing.

I love being tall (5'10") and I wouldn't trade it but all of my friends are short so in group pictures I'm always the floating head/shoulders in the back of the photo. It does make me feel amazon-ish on occasion.

I'm 5'7'' and all the women I work with are 5'1'' or 5'2''. I decided to screw it and wore 4 inch heels to work because I was already the super tall one anyway.

I hear this! I'm 5'8" and most of my friends are all 5'3" or so and I wear my heeled ankle boots and tower over them in photographs but that is perfectly ok with me!

I'm 6' tall but all of my bridesmaids were under 5'5. In my wedding photos I towered over all of them, but the family picture with my three brothers (6'2, 6'3, and 6'6) I felt super dainty haha

I love being eye to eye with my husband. It has made lots of things easier, like moving furniture. You dont think about dual-carrying things until there's a big height discrepancy

Edit: I only recently decided that I liked wearing heels. People look at my feet anyway to check if I'm wearing heels. May as well wear them and look cute!

this is where I stand to find the tall'uns, eh? Grand.

(please wear heels!!)

You EH'd so I had to check but you're not Canadian. False advertisement!

I am 5'9" and 170lb. I know that I am a little chubby but even when I as 150 I felt huge. Short girls an be chubby too and they are still so "cute" while I am always referred to as "big". Even though I am tall I still feel pressure to get down to about 130-135 because I don' want to be the fat friend. Being tall sucks sometimes, oh yeah and i I want to take pictures with my friends I'd better not wear heels unless I want to be a whole head taller than them.

My height has always been a bother to me. I reached about 5'9 by the age of 13, so was heavier than many of my classmates, and partly as a result of this insecurity, I started dieting and developed anorexia.

Short girls can be chubby too and they are still so "cute" while I am always referred to as "big".

I relate to this a fair bit. I'm 6'1" and had finished growing by the time I was 12 so I always felt super conspicuous. I remember when we were about 7 or 8 and got weighed at school, all the other kids in the class were like 30-35 kg (66-77 lbs) and I was almost 45 kg (99 pounds). I felt so enormous like I just occupied too much space -- and this is something I still struggle with. Of course, at that age I didn't understand that being tall meant you had to weigh more. Combine that with numerous comments I've received throughout my life like "wow you're so massive" or "you're a big girl" -- referring to my height of course, but I never interpreted it that way.

I often feel like a behemoth, but I'm learning to love my height as an adult. Fortunately my husband is four inches taller than me so it makes me feel tiny, which is a nice change. And I can rock heels without feeling ridiculous! But, yeah, it's still difficult when short people say that size 12 is overweight, or you hear people talking about feeling so gross at 120 pounds. Umm...yeah.

Having said that, there are a few perks to being tall: your maintenance intake is <1000 calories per day more than a short person's would be, you can always reach the top shelf, you can find people in crowds easily, you can make short men feel really insecure, and you can gain a fair bit of weight before it starts to look obvious. Of course it sucks finding pants/shoes that fit, and long-haul flights are an absolute b*tch. But guess you gotta make the most of it :-)

5"9.5 and 145lbs - I don't wear heels apart from when I want to accentuate the long legs us tall gals are blessed with!

Otherwise they are an evil device made by men to make it harder for us to run away

I feel your pain and dating sucks for tall women! Petite women have so many more options.

I know exactly what you mean - All my friends are 5ft 4 and a size 8.

I feel like a whale compared too them!

When I was younger I hated being so tall, but I must admit maybe because I am getting older, I actually like being 5ft 9. Its funny because all my 5 ft 4 mates all say they wish they had long legs like mine......... : )

We can never win hahahaha!!