# She's SIX FOOT EIGHT! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 11, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750 "2010-06-11T03:37:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750/41 "2010-06-11T19:45:34Z")
I’ll take Maria Stepanova (6 8) [http://www.basketfeminin.com/photo/1097803-1397679.jpg](http://www.basketfeminin.com/photo/1097803-1397679.jpg) Allyssa Dehaan (6 9) or Heidi Gillingham (6 8) [http://www.vandymania.com/whitneyphotos/03\_04/sec1\_5.jpg](http://www.vandymania.com/whitneyphotos/03_04/sec1_5.jpg) over that thing any day. Alexis Skye (6 5+)has 'em all beat for looks. [http://hamptons.guestofaguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/354166393\_0049.jpg](http://hamptons.guestofaguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/354166393_0049.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750/42 "2010-06-11T23:19:02Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > How come half the internet is over 6-foot-5? I’m a little over 6’4" and I’m out in public every day in a large city and I see someone taller than me maybe once a month. I’ve been the tallest person at every job I’ve ever had, and the tallest person in every class I’ve ever talen since adulthood. Yet on the internet, I’m a weetle shortypuff. Even the guy I worked with last year who was at least an inch shorter than me made a it a point to remind everybody who reads his Facebook profile that he is 6-foot-6. It just strikes me as a little weird, is all. I know what you mean. I’m 6’4’‘, and I continuously have people insisting I’m taller because they are 6’2’’ and yet a half head shorter… It’s always a shock when a woman is taller than you. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750/43 "2010-06-11T23:42:28Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > That’s a man, baby. Her voice cadence does have a certain Fire Island rhythm, wot? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750/44 "2010-06-11T23:57:15Z")
And she went to law school. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750/45 "2010-06-11T23:57:34Z")
I like tall women; the last woman I dated was 6’3 (the same height as me). My friends tend to overlook (or underlook!!1!1) such women, and after seeing some of the pictures on this thread, I finally understand. …Because although I find them hot they’re also a little overwhelming. Somehow I wouldn’t be comfortable. ---
**Author:** ![Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nefarious_chipmunk/32/1045_2.png) [@Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefarious_Chipmunk)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750/46 "2010-06-11T23:58:06Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > Probably. At 6’5" I don’t look like I weigh 260 lbs. I’d not be surprised if she were near 300 lbs. According to the Tosh.0 video, she weighs 245 lbs. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750/47 "2010-06-12T00:01:23Z")
My sister is taller than I am. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750/48 "2010-06-12T02:29:58Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > How come half the internet is over 6-foot-5? They’re lying? Me, I’m 7’7" and go 'bout 625. Had to have the house built around me. I wear baseball gloves all winter, too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750/49 "2010-06-12T02:45:29Z")
I once punched a hole through a cow just to see who was coming up the road! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750/50 "2010-06-12T03:30:29Z")
I have found a new range of Everests to climb. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750/51 "2010-06-12T03:40:57Z")
She is not 6’ 8". That is a lie. She is actually 5’ 20". **Giant Freakin Marine** hasn’t posted here in a year and a half, but he is 5’ 20" IRL and let me tell you he is one giant freakin Marine! ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750/52 "2010-06-12T04:42:12Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Her voice cadence does have a certain Fire Island rhythm, wot? Are you suggesting she us smuggling a penis? Because she does not appear to be packing. He hands are absolutely enormous but if she was shrunk down to 5" 8" height would you even notice? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750/53 "2010-06-12T05:21:33Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Are you suggesting she us smuggling a penis? I’m prepared to accept the possibility that she once did. Also that if her voice was an octave higher and less lispy, that I might not have thought anything of it. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750/54 "2010-06-12T05:30:19Z")
Yes, you’d notice. She looks mannish because she has pituitary gigantism (adult version is acromegaly which isn’t associated with such extreme heights). These hormonal issues give everyone a deeper voice, more exaggeratedly masculine features, thicken bone (especially the skull, jaw, and face which spread and bulge) and soft tissue for a bulkier look, increase the size of the feet and hands, and usually come along with painful joint and bone problems as well as heart and circulation issues. People with this condition often die young and painfully. Since she is not too tall and her symptoms are fairly subtle, hopefully she got the treatment she needed in time to avoid many of the health problems. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750/55 "2010-06-12T05:47:22Z")
I’m having more difficulty with the insistance that she’s a redhead than XX. If that’s red, it came from a bottle. A really big one. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750/56 "2010-06-13T11:39:51Z")
She does look masculine, but the voice being deep may be just a product of her height. I wouldn’t be surprised if she once had a willy, though. Allison Stokke? Never heard of her before this thread, but wow is she beautiful! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-six-foot-eight/542750.md?page=2)