They aren’t all 10s?
[cough]bribed judges[/cough]
Oh, shoe sizes. Never mind…
I used to work in an outdoor store, and almost every woman shopping for boots who had a size 9 or above felt the need to announce “I have big feet.” Which means that I heard “I have big feet” many many times a day. 9.5 was a bit larger than average, but a perfectly ordinary and common size. That was 20 years ago too.
Your roommate is lacking in both tact and logic. She is mistaken about Brazilian shoe sizes. She says the biggest women’s shoe size she’s seen in Brazil is equivalent to a U.S. 7? The biggest women’s shoe size that I typically see in the U.S. is 11. Brazilian women might have smaller feet on average than U.S. women for some reason, and they might even wear tighter-fitting shoes, but FOUR sizes worth? That’s absolutely ridiculous.
That puts her BMI at 14.3. That would be considered severely underweight. Maybe she’s just built that way and isn’t really underweight from a health perspective, but that makes her an extreme outlier and to compare herself to others is worse than asinine.
Your roommate is an asshole.
One of the models on the first season of America’s Next Top Model was 5’10" and 118 lbs, and was so thin she was questioned about having an eating disorder. (Funny what trivia our brains remember).
Your roommate is either a walking skeleton or is lying.
[brain bleach]A very underweight asshole.[/brain bleach]
There is no way she is 110lbs, she would have no muscle mass at all. If she is 110lbs and 5’10", she is at significant risk of health problems, just as much as someone who is 5’10" and 400lbs is.
She didn’t say she was 110 lbs. She said she was
lbs!
I think the roommate is a liar too.
I’m going to have to agree with that, but it doesn’t make your roommate any less of a bitch.
OK, a little internet detective work using information the OP has supplied about herself, and I was able to find her pic!
Until 2 weeks ago I worked for a shoe store. By far the most common sizes we sold were 8 and 8.5. The core sizes, the ones we always wanted to have best stocked no matter what, were 7-9. I would definitely not call 9.5 huge but it was outside the norm, at least for my store. At size 10 we stopped selling half sizes and it was rarely a problem because we so infrequently needed them. I’d say we probably sold 9.5 about as often as we sold 6.5.
My feet are size 10 and have been pretty much since I was a teenager. Never had a problem with it or been ashamed–I like my big feet. And since I’m 5’10" they’re pretty proportionate to the rest of me. I’ve never had trouble finding shoes, but I mostly wear men’s shoes or boyish women’s styles, so I’m not surprised.
And I think your roommate should mind her own business. 
“Brazil: People At Their Most Beautiful, Humanity At Its Ugliest.” - *Our Dumb World
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Wait a minute. She’s 5’10" with size 6 feet? And she weighs 100lbs? There is no way, and I mean no way, those numbers are correct.
I’m 5’10" and I have several friends who are as tall or taller and that shoe size and weight are not physically possible for someone that tall.
Are we collectively incapable of giving the OP a little latitude and poetic license with the numbers?
Or do we need to insist that the OP provide her room mates medical records as evidence before agreeing that her roomie is a 100lb (+/-) asshole?
We’re aghast at the numbers the OP has provided because if she looked at her roommate’s shoes and saw “size 6” there’s no poetic license at work, even if the woman wasn’t exactly 5’10" the OP must be able to tell that she’s tall, and if the “100 lbs” is from the woman’s own mouth, then she’s a big fat liar.
Right. No one is attacking the OP for imprecision: we are suggesting that if the roommate is claiming to weigh 100 lbs, she’s a terrible kind of mean girl–it’s a lie designed to make other people feel like crap because “OMG, if that’s what 100 lbs looks like, my 150 lbs is appalling. I am HALF AGAIN as huge. I don’t feel that huge. I must be fooling myself.” A slightly more charitable interpretation is that if you are the kind of person who just wouldn’t lie about that sort of thing, you don’t suspect it. If you are the kind of person who does, you think everyone does, and it’s part of the game.
I read somewhere that Paris Hilton wears a size 12 shoe.
Paris Hilton wears a size 11ish shoe. She also mangles expensive shoes. There was a magazine shot once of good and bad celebrity toes. The closeup shot showed she had actually sliced open the toe straps on an very expensive pair of size 10 sandals to let her feet fit into the toe box area. Size 10 US is as big as some high end fashion house brands go.
FYI
Percentage distribution of Male and Female shoe sizes in the US circa 1998. This is derived from shoe sales so the odd super low percentage of half sizes in some upper and lower size ranges is (assumedly) due to the fact manufacturers simply do not make very many half sizes in those outer ranges. Click on attached jpg picture
As a side note I have a small online hobby shoe business and as some others have noted women’s US sizes 7-9 are the core sizes. 9.5 is not all that big. It’s way, way harder to move a size 6 vs a size 9.5. Especially in athletic shoes.