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I’m sure that just by looking at the title of this blog post, you all know what rant journey I am about to embark on. I’ve written about my long legs, I’ve written about my long arms, so it just makes sense that I write now, about my big ole feet. Quite literally, I am bigfoot.

I remember when I was 9 years old, constantly borrowing my mom’s shoes that fit me perfectly. She wears a size 8.5, the average shoe size for women in the United States. You may be thinking, “so what, that’s the average?”, but what 9 years old girl should be the average size of a fully grown woman? It would’ve been fine if my feet had stayed that size forever, but they didn’t, not even close.

I honestly hate when people ask me my shoe size because for some reason I’m in the phase of getting over some internal shame dealing with my height and everything that comes along with it; but, I currently wear a size 12 shoe in women. At first thought, a 12 is a massive shoe size, but when taking my height into consideration, my feet are one of the only things that are proportional concerning my height. Usually, when I tell people this, their automatic response is to look at my feet, and then say “well they aren’t that big compared to your size”. Honestly, this does alleviate a bit of self-consciousness concerning my feet, because at times I am convinced that I look like this:

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However, a little self-consciousness never hurt anyone, so what’s the problem? The real problem that I have with my feet is the fact that I can NEVER find shoes that I like in my size. Nearly all of my friends can go to American Eagle or Charlotte Russe and find a cute pair of shoes, but I lost that opportunity when I passed a size 10 at 12 years old. Unfortunately, in-store is even worse than online. I probably own 1 pair of shoes that I have been able to physically walk into a store, try on, and purchase. The majority of my shoes end up from Nordstrom Rack or some other online site, and oftentimes my shoes are in men’s sizes. This is because I am a size 10 in men, which is their average, thus my men’s sneakers and converse are available in abundance. Clearly, however, I am out of luck when it comes to heels, cute sandals, or anything other than my crocs. I LOVE CROCS and they come in bigger sizes than a 12!

Long story short, big feet and lack of shoe accessibility are just a few more struggles associated with being a tall girl.

Thanks for reading!

Madison