Being short presents its own particular set of problems, the most common of which seems to be people constantly cracking pun-filled jokes at your expense.
Long story short – here’s a list of problems only short girls will understand:
1. ‘High waisted’ pants are more like ‘underarm pants’.
2. Everyone thinks you’re in high school.
3. People love cracking the joke “Sorry – you must be this tall to enjoy this ride LULZ!”
4. The top shelf at the supermarket might as well be Everest.
5. Two words: Bar stools.
6. Everybody knows you as ‘the short one’.
7. If you’re not in the front row at concerts you might as well not go.
8. Always getting a face full of boobs when you hug people.
9. People looking at you and your boyfriend, then saying “how does that work?”
10. It’s practically impossible to take selfies with other people.
11. “Can you even see over the steering wheel hahahaha?!?”
12. Everyone jokingly uses you as an arm rest.
13. The shallow end of the pool is your deep end of the pool, and the deep end of the pool is your horrifying abyss.
14. The sun visor in the car does nothing for you.
15. When you use an umbrella it’s like a lethal weapon.
16. All pants need to be taken up. All. Pants.
17. Your feet don’t reach the floor when you sit on a regular chair.
18. Mini-skirts? HA.
19. Kids are taller than you.
20. The pedals in your car might as well be 11 metres away.
21. Hobbit jokes.
22. You totally identified with Liza in this moment:
#shortiesunite
Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Here’s a list of short celebrities who come in at 5ft 2 and under.
Snooki 4' 8
Kim 5' 2" and Kourtney Kardashian 5' 0"
Anna Kendrick 5' 0
Kristen Bell 5' 1
Paula Abdul 5' 2
Hayden Panettiere 5' 0
Eva Longoria 5' 1
Ariana Grande 5' 2
Mary Kate 5' 0
Lea Michelle 5' 1
Carmen Electra 5' 2
Jada Pinkett Smith 5' 0
Ellen Page 5' 1
Lady Gaga 5' 2
Emma Bunton and Geri Haliwell both 5' 1
Isla Fisher 5' 1
Reese Witherspoon 5' 2
Lucy Liu 5' 2
Avril Lavigne 5' 1
Madonna 5' 0
Melissa Joan Hart 5' 2
Nicki Minaj 5' 2
Nicole Richie 5' 1
Rachel Bilson 5' 2
Alyssa Milano 5' 1
Salma Hayek 5' 2
Shakira 5' 1
Sarah Michelle Gellar 5' 2
Vanessa Hudgens 5' 1
Jessica Simpson 5' 1
Have you got any to add?
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For the chair problem (#17)... After years of dreading any meeting where I had to sit on a dining-room chair, I discovered that there is a solution! It's a folding footrest - i.e. a very small platform, with fold-up legs that make it very portable. Magic! For me it has completely transformed evenings at the cinema and meetings with hard chairs and no table. I can at last sit perfectly comfortably, without having to cross my legs, for as long as I wish - just like people whose legs are of normal length! I bought mine online. (Rather stupidly, I didn't actually realize that the problem was my short legs, until a colleague
pointed it out one day during a meeting, and found me two big books to put under
my feet!)
I love this so much. Short People Unite! I'm laughing so much at this and nodding my head in agreement.