Short Men Can’t Get Girlfriends? That’s a Tall Story!

There may have been plenty of surveys alleging that taller men find it much easier to get a girlfriend, or wife, and stay single for less time than their vertically challenged counterparts, but does the reality bear this out?

For, when you start to think about it, the list of successful shorter chaps with willowy women on their arm seems almost endless.

Mick Jagger, for example, at 5ft 10ins, is stepping out with fashion stylist L’Wren Scott, six inches taller than him. He has also dated model Sophie Dahl, another six footer, and been married to beauty Jerry Hall.

Sophie, for her part, has now hit the right note with jazz singer Jamie Cullum, who’s six inches shorter than Jagger.

Rod Stewart, the same height as the Rolling Stone, stands three inches shorter than his partner, leggy blonde model Penny Lancaster.

There’s even more of a gap between Formula One racing tycoon Bernie Ecclestone and wife Slavica – a whole foot. But that hasn’t stopped 5ft 2ins tall Bernie measuring up in her eyes.

And actress Brigitte Neilsen towers over husband Mattia Dessi.

There may be shorter height differences between some other celebrity couples, but it’s there nonetheless. Film star Tom Cruise, at 5ft 7ins, is two inches shorter than his wife Katie Holmes, while there is a slightly larger gap between film director Roman Polanski and lofty wife Emmanuelle Seigner and novelist Salman Rushdie and ex-wife Padma Lakshmi.

The list goes on. Height hasn’t stood in the way of the career or love life of the pint-sized French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who at 5ft 5ins tall, is married to former model Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, reportedly four inches taller.

Another Hollywood star, 53-year-old Oscar winner Mel Gibson, is expecting a child with his girlfriend, Russian singer Oksana Grigorieva, 14 years his junior. Mel’s height is the subject of some dispute, but he’s definitely under six foot, while his other half is a beanpole.

Similarly, Billy Joel, just 5ft 5ins tall, has had no trouble finding girlfriends and wives, including Katie Lee and supermodel Christine Brinkley, who, of course, are both much taller than him. (Brinkley is 5ft 9ins.)

There have been many reasons put forward for the reasons for the pulling power of shorter chaps. Some of them are downright patronising – ‘taller women prefer shorter guys because they’re just more grateful’ – wrote one journalist.

Far more plausibly, some say women just appreciate the compact sex appeal of less-than-lofty blokes. (Think Robert De Niro and James Dean.) Others reasons put forward for their success in love are that shorter guys are funnier, more ambitious, better providers, more mature, less likely to be cads and less in love with themselves.

But, whatever the reason, short man/tall woman partnerships are a well-established trend, and they’re here to say. So, if you’re a diminutive male, having a girlfriend several inches higher than you needn’t be a problem, or a tall order. At all.

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