Sabrina Rojas Weiss - Yahoo Lifestyle, 30 January 2018

Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas have been together for almost a year and a half and the couple have been engaged for about three months, which seems like enough time for Turner to get used to feeling like she’s in a “fishbowl,” as she once told Glamour. It is not enough time for some onlookers to get over a simple fact about this couple: At a reported 5’9,” the Game of Thrones star is taller than her 5’7″ DNCE fiancé.

The paparazzi caught the two walking out in unseasonably warm weather in New York City over the weekend, with Turner wearing a pair of boots with tall chunky heels as Jonas strolled along in his Converse. Gossip site Just Jared posted a photo of them to Instagram, and immediately the comments section became host to a load of criticisms over their height difference.

“She is sooooo much taller than him,” noticed @aurmichkell.

“And why does she wear such high heels?” wondered @csre27. “I mean, there’s nothing wrong with being taller than your partner, but it just seems uncomfortable to accentuate it like that.”

“So … Joe is the little spoon,” wrote @amandachristy12. And @geronimogl was meaner, joking, “Caption should say, Sophie’s fiancee and her little bitch!”

When they first started dating, a couple of tabloids made a big deal about their height difference, but they’re hardly the first celebs to demonstrate that sometimes taller women like men who are ever-so-slightly shorter than them. See also: Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban (or Tom Cruise), Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden, Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik. Jonas has dated other statuesque women, such as Taylor Swift and Hadid. Why do people get so fixated on this kind of pairing? Does it have any bearing on the internal workings of their relationship?

A lot of that depends on the couple’s past, New York-based relationship therapist Jean Fitzpatrick tells Yahoo Lifestyle.

“Because we think of man-as-taller as ‘normal,’ sometimes this height difference sparks anxiety, usually at first,” Fitzpatrick says. “A very tall woman may have felt like a giant growing up and dating, and may sometimes wish for a guy who feels like her match in height. A shorter man may have been the smallest guy on the team and so dating a taller woman may be an uncomfortable reminder of shame he hasn’t worked through yet. The biggest height difference any of us experiences in life is the one we have with our parents growing up. When we were small and they were tall, we felt taken care of and loved, or deprived and judged, or both.”

But none of that baggage is insurmountable, Fitzpatrick notes, particularly if both parties are willing to talk about it.

There’s one way in which Turner and Jonas are already getting past one shorter-man stereotype: “Tallness in men is associated with career success, which isn’t an issue for couples who are already successful,” Fitzpatrick says. “And with today’s partnership marriages, I find couples less interested in height and more in sharing career, household, and parenting equitably.”

Fitzpatrick says there are much more important questions they’ll have to face together than physical differences.

“Once a couple have been together awhile, it’s the quality of the relationship that matters: Do they listen to and understand each other? Do they express care for each other in everyday ways? Do they trust each other?” she says.

Regardless of height, “Jophie” look pretty happy together, as they begin to plan their wedding, which will feature Maisie Williams as a bridesmaid and some kind of speech (or more) from Nick Jonas. Then we’re betting Turner’s choice of footwear will have everything to do with her dancing plans, not her groom’s height.

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Bazaar celebrates women who live by their own rules and are brave enough to take flight. See all of the Daring Women featured in our November 2015 issue here.

By Laura Brown

A few years ago, Gwendoline Christie was treading the boards for the Royal Shakespeare Company and playing Mag Wildwood in a West End production of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Now she finds herself at the epicenter of three massive pop-culture movements: Game of Thrones, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2. While an actor saying he/she is grateful has become a cliché, Christie really means it. "It means there's a shift in our culture and our way of thinking about how women are perceived," she says. "People want to see a more diverse representation of women than the homogenized ones we've had so far."

Christie, 36, is far from homogeneous. Standing six foot three, she contended for years with the perception that "if you were taller than average, you couldn't act on-screen. But you've got to hang in there because things change." She had a role in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus in 2009, then a friend told her "there was something online about me being in an HBO show." Christie researched Game of Thrones's Brienne of Tarth, the loyal-to-a-fault soldier who stars in the series' most riveting battle scenes, and thought, If this remains in audiences' minds, this could work to change the way we view women on television.

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She Is Not The Tallest Girl, However, She Has The Longest Legs

By Momina Wijdan Last updated Oct 24, 2019

We just came across a video (by Barcroft TV) of the girl with World's Longest Legs, Maci Currin. And that has really surprised us. She is not the tallest girl in the world. However, she has the longest legs. Comparing her to Netflix's Tall Girl Ava Michelle would be unfair. So, let us just compare her with the record-holder longest-legged girl.

Maci Currin | Girl With The Longest legs

Maci Currin is a 16-year old towering teenager from Texas. And she is a proud owner of the world's longest legs. Like seriously, her legs are too long. She officially has 53 inches long legs, that is 134.62 centimeters or 4.42 feet. (Considering I'm 62 inches tall, I really cannot imagine standing next to her legs.) Currin is actually from Austin, Texas and she is officially breaking the record of Ekaterina Lisina, of Russia who has 52.5 inches legs.

Currin is an aspiring model with a total height of 6 feet 9 inches. When she was born, she was slightly smaller than the average newborn. However, she went through some serious growth spurts and by the time she was 9, she was 5 feet 7 inches tall.

Currin Explains Pros & Cons Of Her Height

Maci Currin is a proud owner of the world's longest legs. Though her legs come with some pros and cons, she does not mind having the longest legs. With an outseam of 53 inches and an inseam of 43 inches, she can find her friends very easily in a crowd. Her mother said when Currin was just 18 months old, she stood a foot taller than other kids with the same age.

Maci Currin says finding friends in the crowds is very easy for her. However, there are some disadvantages to being that tall. These cons include hitting her head, getting into cars and finding the clothes. Currin's father Cameron is 6 feet 5 inches tall.

Her mother Trish said that there were some years in Maci Currin's life when she was growing 5 inches in a year. When she goes to public spaces, a lot of people stare at her. And they take pictures of her without asking for her permission. And it really annoys her. She does not like shopping at all, unlike other girls. We wish her all the best for her future and we'll hopefully see her official verification soon in Guinness World Record.

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