Height is just a number. By Evan Porter Feb 13, 2025
TikTok loves to celebrate relationships that fit our culturally accepted norms. ‘Big manly guy plus dainty girl’ equals algorithm gold! Every week there’s a new challenge spawning hundreds of videos: Can you lift your girlfriend with one arm? Can you pick her up and sit her on your shoulder? Can you throw her over your shoulder like a military soldier?
Refreshingly, one couple is breaking the mold. Meet Ellie and Lucas. Lucas Byrd is currently the number one ranked collegiate wrestler in his weight class — not too shabby. Ellie Holzman is a former D-1 volleyball and softball player. But they’re social media-famous as a couple for reasons that have nothing to do with their athletic accomplishments.
Yes, this TikTok couple is best known for their 6-inch height difference. Lucas stands at a modest 5′ 6″ (ideal leverage for a wrestler) while Ellie towers over him at 6′ 2″ (perfect for volleyball spikes).
The two share an account (@ellie_and_lucas) and document their relationship there with the cutest videos you’ve ever seen.
In one video, he playfully picks her up and promptly topples over in the process — ‘lift your girlfriend’ challenges be damned. In another, she dons high heels and he has to reach on his very tippy-toes to kiss her. In another clip, they run a photo of themselves through a cartoon filter — which bafflingly switches their heights and makes Lucas taller!
Through it all, one thing is clear: The striking height difference doesn’t bother them one bit. In fact, they seem to have a lot of fun poking fun at it and playing with people’s expectations in some of their ‘skits’. Their non-chalance may not have always been the case, however.