Tall. Female.
“give me some of that height!”
“gosh youre so tall & beautiful! I wish I was tall”
“I wish I had your legs”
Just a few of the things I’ve grown up hearing from complete strangers. I don’t even want to get into the ones that have to do with sports, or modeling.
The problems with being 6 foot 2 since you were 13 is that your body looked that of a woman, so therefore men treated you like one even though you had the face of a child. The problems with being tall and thin is that girls in school put you on this pedestal and deemed you the skinny girl. The problems with being tall and thin is everyone accepts you to stay that weight limit. The problems with being tall, is shoes aren’t made for you, women or men, very few companies carry a size 11 so you downsize to the mens 9..but they are too wide for your thin WOMAN feet.
The problem with being a tall women is also if you’re a thin woman and than you aren’t. I’ve always been called an amazon, or big but I’ve always been thin so the “you’re as big as a dude” comments have been few and far between. But since having our beautiful son and suffering a miscarriage I’ve gained post pardum weight. and depressed because I lost my a baby weight.
I don’t like to hold all my confidence and happiness in how I look, but there is a lot of negatives already to the way I look. I don’t fit in most clothing as it is, I already stick out and being thin made this awkward difference about myself more bearable… so what do I do now that I am not thin? The easy answer is “work out” “eat healthy” and yes I am trying but until I lose this weight again.. what do I do? How do I not hate myself? or lash out?
