Joan Smalls Quotes

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

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

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

I've never been particularly happy with what I see in the mirror - I don't think anybody ever is. And I'd like to be taller, too: I'm 5 ft. 9in.

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.

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 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'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.

I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.

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.

I used to hate being short.

I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.

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

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

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'

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

I went through my awkward teenage years. I don't want to go back.

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 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.

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

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'm tall now, but when I was younger, I used to tower above everyone - I still feel conscious of that.