Nick Jonas is, according to Google, 5'7", which is, according to Wikipedia, two inches shorter than the average male height in the U.S. So maybe he’s a little sensitive, but also he’s got a good face and millions of dollars and is beating diabetes with fitness so, all things considered, he’s doing fine.
The other night, while high Googling before bed, I got to thinking about the Bushes, in general, and Barbara Bush, in particular. I told my husband about how I think she cuts quite an intimidating figure and he agreed. So, I wondered, how tall is this woman who bedded down with one former president and birthed…
On Monday, we launched a multi-part investigation into the height of Kit Harington, an actor who claims to be 5’8, but is not 5’8. What began as a fun look into some questionable facts has, in the following hours, turned into something far more mysterious and sinister. Why? Because no one knows how tall Kit Harington…
Here are some photos of Kit Harington. Do you know how tall he is?
An ongoing study is making a case for tall lady/short fella couplings. The new research out of NYU and the University of Michigan suggests that tying the knot with a man who's shorter than you could potentially mean greater longterm relationship success.
Being short and experiencing the world from an angle of reduced height can make a person feel vulnerable, inferior, and mistrustful and increase their paranoia, according to new research.
Men who are shorter than 5'9 are in for a rough go of it if they're looking to date online. A recent study conducted by New York dating site Are You Interested? found that only 1.2% of the female site users living in Manhattan or the Bronx would reach out to male members who were shorter than them. Odds were slightly…
Tall women are more at risk for all types of cancer, according to a new study. Speaking as a woman who stands 5'2'' on a good day pretty sure a doctor humored me this one time four years ago by marking that on my chart, I say: SCORE! Just kidding. Cancer isn't a joke, it's not a competition, and if it was a…
We're all aware that men are slightly taller than women, so it should follow that in hetero couples out in the world, you would expect men to be taller, on average, than their female companions. That's true. But it turns out that it's more than just true by chance, it's also true by choice. Culturally, we've taken an…
It's pretty obvious that being a tall, beautiful person is not usually a disadvantage when it comes to getting what you want—except when it comes to buying pants, of course. But what happens when everyone starts getting taller and more beautiful? Does it still pay to be a little more beautiful and a little taller than…
I see us everywhere. Restaurants. The grocery store. The mall. I hear our sighs in the dressing room as we try on skirts that, mid-thigh on others, graze dangerous territory on us. I see our longing gazes as we pick up and then put back those high, high stiletto heels at Nine West or Nordstrom's or Last Call.
As a tall-ish person, let me be the first to say "SERIOUSLY?"
It suggests, according to a study using height to indicate nutrition and overall health, that "poor women born in the last two decades, especially in Africa, are worse off than their mothers or grandmothers born after World War II."
Guinness World Records has named Wayne and Laurie Hallquist of California, who measure 6'10'' and 6'6'' respectively, the world's tallest living spouses. A 19th century couple who were each taller than 7' are still the tallest husband and wife ever.
A study has found that people's "ideal" partners often differ from their actual partners, at least physically. So maybe we all settle — but there's also another way to interpret this research.
A new book, John Schwartz's Short: Walking Tall When You're Not Tall at All is aimed at vertically-challenged teens. So is human growth-hormone. And the fact that Thurgood Marshall nicknamed clerk Elena Kagan "Shorty" is not incidental to this discussion:
According to today's "Science Times," it's not that we shrink with age: it's that we lose our ability to regain height. Adults actually "shrink and regain height on a daily basis, as much as three-quarters of an inch." [NYT]
How much does it suck to be short in America? $50,000 much? According to a new book reviewed in the Times today, that's how much the hormone treatments cost to give a kid an extra inch of height.
While most of us would probably give a lot for a few extra inches of chic, life is hard for those ladies over 6 feet. At the Tall Persons Club, women commiserate over the daily challenges of life for a tall women and the larger issues of finding partners - along with the callous social perception that to date a taller…
"I am not deformed or handicapped, I'm not a circus attraction. I have strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. What makes me different is that I'm 6-foot-4, and I'm a woman." That's University of Wisconsin senior Rebecca Thomas, from her essay 'Life As A Tall Girl', excerpted in today's NY Times. We (well, me, Anna) can…