Claudia Schiffer Quotes

I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.

I hate talking about my height, because I don't feel like a tall person... When I see a tall woman, I'm always slightly like, 'Whoa.' It looks weird, but that could be because of my complex about it, my worry over whether it's womanly to be that tall.

I had a fear of being too tall because my dad is very tall, and both my sisters are very tall. And they're drop-dead gorgeous, but I just didn't know if I, as Storm, wanted to be 6 feet tall, 'cause I feel like that's pretty tall.

My story wasn't one of those cliched stories of being an ugly duckling, I had a pretty good time at school. But then I think being six foot by the age of 15 meant that I couldn't help but be noticed, and that was when my physical being felt quite painful - I could not any longer walk into a room without being noticed.

I always wanted to be tall, but I'm not, OK?

I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.

I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.

By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.

I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now - that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys.

I didn't ask to be short. I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter.

I was always taller than every other boy my age. So, whenever there was one boy who was taller than me I was like, 'Yes. He's the one.' Even if he definitely wasn't.

I was 4'11'' in the 9th grade. I was a little guy... I think I had that little man complex.

I can understand why people laugh and make jokes, but I'm comfortable with being this tall. It's not as if I've had a sudden growth spurt. I've always been like this, so I get used to the constant height references.

I'm 5ft 1in and despise being small. People think I'm cute and cuddly, and I'm not.

I had spinal surgery to correct scoliosis when I was 16 years old. The only thing that scared me about the procedure was that it would make me two inches taller. At the time, I had a crush on a boy who was about my height - and I was worried that if I were taller than him, it would never happen!

All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.

I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.'

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

No 11-year-old girl wants to be 5-10. I always felt big and unattractive.

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

I was 13 when I reached my present height. I was so skinny I looked like one of those starving people in Africa. The boys in my class would beat me up because I was too tall.

I've got 99 problems, and most of them are height-related.

I was always looking at the ground because I was self-conscious about my height. I had big feet, big hands, and all that.

I used to hate being short.