Tall women have long been told that they shouldn’t wear heels, or look taller than men. This is, of course, ridiculous. A female friend who’s 6′ tells everyone she’s 5′ 12″. (She does it as a joke, though.) The crew dug a trench for Nicole Kidman to walk in as she was filmed alongside then-husband Tom Cruise for the 1992 romantic adventure movie Far and Away. And although there wasn’t much the royal spin doctors could do about live appearances of Prince Charles and his wife Diana – except perhaps require her to walk twelve paces behind him – their official portraits were doctored to hide the fact that they were the same height.
My on-air partner Ken and I recently went through the opposite issue during a recent photo session. The last time we had photos done, we appeared as we are – him well over 6′ and me about 5’5″. As a result, Facebook did this to us.
Something had to change! So this time, they put me on a riser. It’s weird and uncomfortable to look Ken in the eye instead of up his nose, which I’m used to.
I suppose it will work better once the fancy graphics are added and it goes through the social media machine. But when people see us in person they’re certainly going to notice that I’m an elbow-biter compared to how tall I appear in this photo.
At least you’re not an “Ankle-biter”, my ex-husband’s term for his nephew when Dan started crawling.
Haha. That’s true! It was pretty embarrassing to only have half a face for so long, though.