I’m a girl and I’m 5’3” (1.60 m). I really wish I were more like 5’6. What makes it worse is that my mom is 5’6” (1.68 m), and my dad is a whole 6’2” (1.89 m). Like… how did I end up this short?? Even my older sister is 5’6½ (1.69 m). At this point I feel cursed 😭
Could be 'short genes' that are running in your family and you inherited a lot of them. Are your grandparents short?
Having a bad diet can also stunt your growth. You don't have to be starving to stunt your growth.
I think it does need to be really bad to stunt growth.
Can attest. My BMI has never been over 18 in my life.
You have always been very slim?
Yeah for the most part.
My mom grew up food insecure, to the point she didn't menstruate until she was 16, bc she started college young and finally had enough food. She wound up 5'9. Out of 12 kids, only 2 aren't taller than average. My shortest aunts are 5'6. They also had to do a lot of hard labor. Just mentioning it bc it takes a lot to suppress tall genes. My uncles are 6'4. Many do all have small feet for such tall people
Yes, it would be very easy to tell by just looking at a child. So not something that happens without anyone noticing
Think its definitely possible because it probably worked the same way for me my siblings and parents are all below 6'
This is true, and it can work in both directions.
It’s commonly known that eating too little and being malnourished can lead to stunted growth and delayed puberty. On the other hand, eating excessively or having a diet of mostly junk foods and being overweight can also cause someone to end up shorter than they were supposed to be because that triggers puberty to start too early (especially in girls), which in turn causes them to stop growing earlier, giving them less time to grow. The latter is what happened to me.
A regular "bad" diet will not stunt your growth. Malnutrition can. Height is overwhelmingly due to genetics.
Why do you feel "cursed"? It's not inherently bad to be short: it's in your mindset. I'm 4'10" F (shorter than both my parents, though close to my mother's height), 57 y/o but never felt "cursed". Yes, I was teased about my height when I was in elementary school and it upset me then. But as I got older, my peers matured and the teasing stopped. I have had plenty of relationships with guys of various heights (my husband is 5'4"), I am successful in my career, I have hobbies I like and I have plenty of friends. Feeling down about yourself solely because of your height can end up being a self-fulfilling prophecy.
How old are you
19, i dont grow anymore.
Dang, and your parents are relatively tall. But I suppose 5'3 isn't even that short for a woman honestly
It is bad when you live in the netherlands
I live in Norway, most young men are 5'11-6'1 these days. I remember visiting the netherlands feeling like a leprechaun. I'm 170cm.
I mean yeah ur in a Nordic country theyre known for being tall
My shortness comes from grandma on my father side who was very petite. She was 4’10 and flat chested. I also got the smallchest compared to my cousins, aunts and sister. It may be just genetics.
5'3 isn't short for a woman in most countries. In the USA for example, the average woman is 5'4
How is this possible ? Maybe u are malnourished at puberty years or not working out physically
Nah i was always a healthy kid, and did athletics, so
Genetics can play out in strange ways. My sister got 1 tall son, and one short. A girl I used to hang out with had a short brother, but was tall herself. She told me her mother had chosen her dad to get tall sons, but it turned out in reverse. One of my friends got his tall genes from his mom, and not his dad.
I have no other answer than genetics are genetics. They can play out in all kinds of strange ways.
Estrogen levels maybe
Girl I can relate! I’m also exactly 5’3 and my mom’s 5’5 1/2 (although she’s shrinking cuz she’s mid 50s) and my dad’s 6’1 and most of my dad’s side is usually on the taller side and a set of my great grandparents were 5’7F n 6’4M and I thought I was gonna between like 5’6-5’8 too.
The doctor predicted my height also to be like that lmao, great to see people also having tall parents and ending up short🤣
Oh ik it sucks but also most of my mom’s family is short too like great grandparents were 4’11F n like 5’7-8M and my grandma’s siblings are like average and great aunts kids are like short too then again their dad is like 5’5 maybe lol. And my cousin’s fiancee is maybe like 5’8-9F. So it’s sucks.
It’s not a curse. You’re simply petite. I don’t see the issue here? My mom was 5’3 and my dad was 5’9, I am 5’1. You’re not even that short.
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Stop sleeping late, thats why you are short.