Publish date: 2023-12-10

Indian author, model and TV show host (Top Chef), author and actress. She is listed by her agency as standing 5ft 9 and she once said "I'm six feet tall with heels". Photos by PR Photos I didn't know how small or how much shorter he [Prince] was than me when I first was talking to him like this. That was a shock. He was 5'2". And barefoot, I'm 5'9". She measured my height. I knew very well how tall I was. I had reached five-foot-nine at age 13. I'd often taken flak for my height. My old elementary school nickname "Black Giraffe" echoed in my head. My height and long neck earned the noun. The adjective speaks, rather sadly, for itself.
Later, I was called "Skeletor," after He-Man's nemesis, whom I suppose I resembled because I was naturally gaunt. By the time I was old enough to be shy around boys, I had been ridiculed for my gangliness long enough that I developed a hunch to conceal my true height.
-- Love, loss, and what we ate, 2016

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