# When did you stop growing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 3, 2006, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880 "2006-03-03T09:12:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/21 "2006-03-03T14:53:54Z")
Male here - I was always one of the taller kids, but had a 8 or 9-inch growth spurt when I was 12 or so that made me very tall. I topped out at 6’2" or so in high school, but then a few years later added another 1 or more inches in college, at which point I stopped - so I am about 6’4"… My wife, so she tells me, was 6’1" at age 13 and hasn’t grown since. I have never gotten around to asking her when the Booby Fairy visited her, but am pleased that the visit did occur! ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/22 "2006-03-03T15:04:23Z")
Around 13, I topped out at 5’3". My sister, who’s five years younger and seven inches taller, has been taller than me probably since she was nine or ten. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/23 "2006-03-03T15:07:50Z")
Male here. I reached 6’ 3" at 14. I think I may have lost a fraction of an inch in the 38 years since then. Gravity. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/24 "2006-03-03T15:09:50Z")
The boobie fairy hates my people. I’m 17 and an AA cup. I like it though, so it’s all good. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/25 "2006-03-03T15:15:13Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > 8th grade I peaked height wise. > The boobie fairy showed up about two years later. I was about 12 when I stopped growing, and ditto on the boobie fairy. Probably 14-ish. But then, as if by magic, I grew about an inch when I was 20. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fromage\_A\_Trois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fromage_A_Trois)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/26 "2006-03-03T16:41:32Z")
I reached 6’3" at 14, just like **Crotalus**. I’m not sure, but I don’t think I’ve grown (or shrunk!) since then - I’m now 25. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/27 "2006-03-03T16:45:05Z")
Male here, stopped growing when I was about 15, 5’7". Funny thing, I don’t recall ever having a growth spurt, it was pretty much slow and steady till I just stopped. 30 now, so I doubt a spurt is on it’s way. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/28 "2006-03-03T16:48:53Z")
In fourth grade, I made it to five feet even, and then the boobie fairy traded places with the height fairy and the rest is history. I haven’t grown an inch in twenty years–except chest-out. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/29 "2006-03-03T17:07:59Z")
Stopped growing at 14, at the grand height of 5’7". The boobie fairy was very miserly at the time, it actually took the next ten years for them to reach their full size. ---
**Author:** ![Dusty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Dusty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dusty)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/30 "2006-03-03T17:11:53Z")
I’m male, and would say my height plateaued at 5’11" somewhere around age 17. I never had any dramatic growth spurts, just a slow, mostly continuous progress. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/31 "2006-03-03T17:20:49Z")
I hit 5’4" in sixth grade (what is that, 13?). When I graduated high school, I was 5’4 3/4". Somewhere between high school and this January (I’m currently 38), I grew half an inch. (YAY!) ---
**Author:** ![Thirty-Nine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@Thirty-Nine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thirty-Nine)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/32 "2006-03-03T19:08:28Z")
My height and shoe size stopped increasing at age 13, when my body decided it would rather devote resources to growing hair on my face. From time to time people exclaim how much taller I look, but every time I check it’s the same 173 centimetres. My granddad claims the men in my family all grow an extra inch around 19, so I may be in luck. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/33 "2006-03-03T20:05:02Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > I haven’t grown an inch in twenty years–except chest-out. Yo, **Drae** , how YOU doin’ ?? 😃 ( what ??? ) ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/34 "2006-03-03T20:25:27Z")
I’ve heard that women stop growing at about the same time as their first menstruation. That there is a connection. Is that true? ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/35 "2006-03-03T21:15:24Z")
Male, topped out at 6 feet around 22 or 23. I was 5’7" when I graduated high school. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/36 "2006-03-03T21:54:02Z")
Female here. I reached my current height of 5’5 about 14-15 yrs. The Cleavage Fairy graced me at 14 and again :eek: at 23. I don’t know what I did to deserve such generosity, but I do pay homage every day. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/37 "2006-03-03T23:01:00Z")
Male, graduated high school at 5’ 11" and grew an inch my freshman year of college to my current height. Nothing heightwise in the ensuing 17 years. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/38 "2006-03-04T00:46:59Z")
Well, I know that I was 5’5" in 8th grade, and 5’7" in 12th grade (and now), so it was sometime between 13 and 18. Seeing as I started sometimes buying guys’ pants at age 16, and my inseam hasn’t changed since then, I’d say I peaked at about 16 (allowing for minute growth after that point). ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/39 "2006-03-04T13:54:33Z")
Male weighing in with his opinions here: I think I stopped growing (or stopped noticing it, anyway) around 20, or 21, at which point I was up to 6’1" (186cm). The funny thing is that when I was a kid, I was a shrimp - smallest in the classs, shorter than all the girls, even. Then over one glorious summer holiday, I grew about 3 or 4 inches, and came back towering over everyone else - that must have been when I was 14. I think I went from about 4’10" to 5’10" between 14 and 17, and then gradually tailed off until 20. Of course, for much of that time I looked like two broomsticks tied together with twine, but I gradually filled out between perhaps 19 and 23, so the Shoulder Width Fairy did eventually come visit. I’m still waiting for the Boobie Fairy to grace my door. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880/40 "2006-03-04T14:02:11Z")
My last growth spurt was my frehman year of college, when I grew my last vertical inch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-growing/346880.md?page=3)