The Junoesque

My friend Beckie from Cause I Said So inspired me to write this. She talked about she felt like a giraffe because she was tripping over her legs. Boy, do I know she feels. My dad was afraid for me the first 10 years of my life because I was always falling. And I had [...]

We always talk about the difficulties of being tall women (i.e. the stares, the comments, too short clothes) but I think we sometimes forget about the good things. And I figured what better way to spend Stand Tall Week than thinking about all the great things about being tall. 1. Can never get lost in [...]

I am part of a chemically engineered race of superheroes created to protect the universe. I have a cape and everything! I was dropped into a vat of nuclear toxic waste as a baby which made me grow the size of a house. This is the best the scientists could do. I ate way too [...]

I realize I am an oddity. I am made aware of the fact everyday just by walking out of my house. Very rarely do I see a woman in regular life that is even close to my height. But sometimes I wonder, how odd am I really? I decided to find out statistically, the answer [...]

Everyone goes through an awkward phase, unless you’re Angelina Jolie or Halle Berry or something. It’s inevitable; a fact of life. I think tall women get it worse, though, because there are so many factors working against us during this time. Not only are we just hitting puberty which is a big change in of [...]

I’m tall not deaf or blind. I can see you staring and can hear your exclamations of how tall I am to your little group of cronies over there. I’m not sure if they don’t think I can hear them or they just don’t care? Oh, I get it! They must think that because they [...]

Welcome to The Junoesque! A meeting place for all the Junoesque ladies of the world. Ladies of imposing height and beauty. Yes, tall is beautiful no matter what anyone says. This will be a place of refuge from the stares, the gawking, and the endless asinine comments. Because no one can really understand what it’s [...]

I am coining a new term: Height Hounds. Which here means shorter men that are attracted to taller women. I have been approached many times by these “height hounds” who have professed how much they just LOVE tall women. Obsessively so it seems. Like it just made their whole life, their dream come true to [...]