WNBA Star: You Can’t Please Everyone, ‘People Hate Beyoncé’

by Christina Santi, August 17, 2018

Dallas Wings center Elizabeth Cambage is 6’8 and leads the WNBA in scoring. Despite better than average stats, the London born baller believes she cannot get everyone to be sure of her greatness, according to Bleacher Report.

The 26-year-old is the tallest woman in the league. She plays hard, is second in rebounding (9.7 per game) and has an over the top personality. Cambage played for the Tulsa Shock in 2011, the year she was drafted 2nd overall. Then she spent time playing overseas in Australia before allegedly being cut from the national team.

Drake recently shouted her out on “Sicko Mode,” a song on Travis Scott’s recent album, Astroworld. However, things weren’t always so bright for the ball player. Cambage was teased for her height growing up and feels her game is lowered because of her height and passion. “A lot of people have tried to dull my light,” she said.

The MVP candidate understands that she needs to love herself because not everyone will. “People hate Beyonce. People probably had s**t to say about Mother Teresa, you know? You can’t please everyone,” Cambage asserted. “You’re not an avocado. Not everyone’s going to love you.”

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By Munson Steed | April 15, 2016 2:31 PM EST 

WNBA star Swin Cash, 36, was selected as one Sports Illustrated’s inaugural “Fashionable 50” and graces the cover of the coveted issue. She ranks among Russell Westbrook, Victor Cruz, Serena Williams and Misty Copeland, who are also considered the most stylist athletes in sports.

“I’ve always dabbled back and forth between the fashion and sports worlds because when I was 14-years-old I had the opportunity to walk in New York Fashion Week,” she tells SI, “…then I went on to play basketball in college and now in the WNBA. Because I am 6-feet tall, I’ve always had to be creative and versatile with my clothes. I love to come to games dressed from head to toe, but I also work in TV as a commentator. So I can do that classic look or I can pull off an elegant dress for a black tie event. Or I can be tomboy chic at a football or basketball game. I love that I can be this chameleon and my fashion can really transcend through the different avenues and areas I work in.”

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Name a few of your favorite designers from head-to-toe?

Shoes – I’m a big Stuart Weitzman fan. I wear a size 11 or 11.5 in heels and SW always come through for me with fashionable ones. Also Vince, Jimmy Choo and Sam Edelman.  Clothing – Ted Baker, Helmut Lang, Robert Rodriguez J brand jeans Top Shop (tall) My dream would be to partner with a designer or store like Top Shop to do a signature tall line for women and girls. I am asked all the time where do I find clothes because of my height and body type. Tall women love to dress fly too and everyone, I would love to do a collaboration like that one day soon.

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A WOMAN bullied at school for being "too tall and nerdy" is having the last laugh - after becoming a successful Naomi Campbell lookalike.

Gorgeous Lystra Adams was constantly teased while at school in Montserrat for being taller than everyone else in her school.

The name calling was so vicious that the young Lystra used to suffer panic attacks before going to class.

Now the 37-year-old stunner has conquered the bullies and has carved out a successful career in modelling.

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By Tracey Spicer

The scene: a suburban hairdressing salon on a Saturday morning. A bride-to-be is in for experimentation with various hairstyles for the "big day".

"Would you prefer an 'updo'?" the hairdresser asks.

Are you kidding?" the bride says. "I'm almost six foot tall [183 centimetres]. Don't need any more height. It'd be embarrassing for my fiancé!"

"Have you got some nice flats to wear?" another client asks.

"Wouldn't want to be towering over the poor guy in your high heels."

"Yep, I've got ballet shoes. Otherwise I'd feel like that terrifying chick Brienne out of Game of Thones."

Perhaps I've been transported to medieval times. I check. Nope, it's 2017. Why is it still taboo for tall women to date short men? Or for women to appear the same height as their beaux?

Poor Princess Di must have been kneeling in those commemorative photos with Prince Charles. As a newsreader, I copied her head-tilt and small smile for a series of shots with (petite) male co-anchors in the '80s and '90s. I looked like some sort of simpering wife.

I know, women are – on average – shorter than men. But study after study shows men and women exaggerate this disparity by seeking out taller-shorter pairings for relationships.

Analysis of Yahoo personal ads by US academics George Yancey and Michael Emerson found that while 13.5 per cent of men only wanted to date women shorter than them, some 49 per cent of women only wanted to date men who were taller.

In her 2008 book Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang notes that height in China was a proxy for class – signifying fortune and a good diet in a country which had experienced famine in living memory.

An Indian friend of mine says he's attracted to taller women, but fears an assumption by others that she's the one "wearing the trousers".

A trawl of wedding websites reveals how far photographers stoop to hide a woman's height. Th ese include the groom standing at the top of a hill and the bride stepping into a hole. One site suggests, "Ask him if it will make him uncomfortable to look up to you."

Seriously, sister, if his answer to this is "yes" then run away screaming!

Drilling down, the reasons for this preference are complex. Researchers point to evolutionary psychology, gender stereotyping and social exchange theory.

The first suggests that taller men are seen as stronger, more able to intimidate rivals and to secure resources. But surely we're beyond the stage of clobbering a challenger over the head with a club. And modern resources are best secured via technology, not brute strength.

The second is societal expectations, in which the "less powerful" man is ridiculed; people still make jokes about short men. I reckon this is at the root of the issue. And so is the third, which centres on status and power. "In a patriarchal society where they operate at a disadvantage, females may have more invested in locating a higher-status partner than men," Yancey and Emerson write. "Height may play a significant role in establishing the perception of higher status among males and thus is more important to women than to men."

This is reinforced by women feeling more "feminine" with a taller man. "Many women hold this stereotype to a point where it excludes a lot of people they might be interested in otherwise," sociologist Dr Pepper Schwartz has said.

We need to break down this everyday sexism by analysing our unconscious bias. Otherwise, our children will continue to absorb images, both in the mass media and at family weddings, of a "dominant" man hovering over a "submissive" woman.

Put simply, our mundane preferences for height in romantic relationships are contrary to our arguments for equality.

Walking out of the salon that day, I placed my hand on the shoulder of the bride-to-be. "You stand proud on your wedding day," I said. "Don't be shamed into slumping."

She looked confused. "I don't want to upset him," she said. "But I guess, stuff it! He's gonna have to live with all six foot of me for the rest of our lives. Thanks." Sometimes, a few small words can make a big difference.

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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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Anne Murphy, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Jan 28, 2017

Motto: My mother told me that tall women wear their clothes very well — when they can find clothes to wear! It made me feel better about my height.

At 65, though Cindy Peterson plans to retire this year from her job as administrative assistant at Grand Meadow Elementary School, she plans to continue the active lifestyle she has always known in her hometown.

"I was born and raised in Grand Meadow and have lived there all of my life," she said. "My husband and I raised four children, and I have 11 grandchildren. My husband of 41 years passed away five years ago, and I remarried two-and-a-half years ago to a wonderful man and longtime friend.

"I love to spend time with family and friends, cook, work out, garden, read, attend concerts and travel," Peterson said. "I am very excited about retirement and having the time to finish projects that I have started and can't seem to finish."

Please tell us a little about your style.

I don't know that I have a particular style but would say that I am mostly conservative with a little bit of fun thrown in. Being tall - 5-foot-10 - it's always been difficult to find clothes.

And a bit of background?

When I was in high school, I learned to sew and made all my clothes as there were no ready-to-wear tall clothes in department stores back then. We had a dress code, meaning all girls wore dresses or skirts. I learned to like long lines with fitted waists as those looked the best on me.

Did family figure in?

Once I started growing taller than my peers, around the eighth grade, my mother told me that tall women wear their clothes very well - when they can find clothes to wear. I learned to always look for items that no one but a tall woman could wear. It made me feel better about my height and helped ease the discomfort of being taller than all of my friends, or even any other girl in my class.

Has your style changed with your stages in life?

I have always been somewhat conservative, but I think I went through a very conservative time when my kids were growing up - probably because I was so busy raising a family that I didn't have time or money to think about how I dressed.

Is it easier being your height today than earlier?

I love the fact that today's pant lengths are all over the place, so at 5-foot-10 I can wear a pair of pants that are meant to be full length and sport them as ankle pants or even capris! I also love the fact that boots are in, and any style boot is in. You can still wear the boots that you had five years ago, and you can extend the wearing period of your summer capris by wearing boots over them.

What do you hope your style communicates?

That how you dress is a reflection of not only who you are, but where you are. My late husband and I worked hard to communicate that to our four children. It's so important to dress for the occasion.

Do you have a priceless sentimental piece?

I have a string of pearls that belonged to my grandmother. They were probably purchased in the early 1900s. I have never worn them, but I certainly cherish them.

Advice for readers?

I read once that whenever you are thinking of purchasing an item, try to come up with at least three or four things you have at home that you can wear with it. I have always tried to remember that.

Anne Murphy is a Rochester freelance writer who has been a professional journalist for more than 30 years.
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