Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents

Short and Sweet

• Regina Swarn • Season 7 • Episode 18

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Standing at exactly five feet tall, my height has been a defining characteristic throughout my life – though my relationship with it has dramatically evolved over the years. This deeply personal episode explores my journey from resenting nicknames like "shorty" and "little bit" to fully embracing my petite stature as something beautiful and uniquely mine.

Remember that time when someone pointed out something about your appearance, and it stung? For decades, I cringed when people asked, "How tall are you?" or made assumptions based on my height. I share candid stories about awkward encounters, including one particularly memorable exchange with a woman who repeatedly called me "shorty" while dealing with her own physical insecurities. These moments highlight the strange social dynamics around commenting on height versus other physical attributes.

My perspective transformed when I began recognizing the advantages of being petite – shopping in teen sections for better-fitting clothes, having proportionate features, and surprising people with the power of my voice despite my small frame. This isn't just about height; it's about the universal journey toward self-acceptance. Whether you're tall, short, or anywhere in between, your uniqueness isn't something to overcome but to celebrate. After all, if everyone were the same, wouldn't the world be unbearably boring? Connect with me to share your own journey toward self-love, and remember: great minds don't think alike – they think differently.

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Speaker 1:

Hi there, welcome back to another episode of Regina Soren Audio Series Presents. Thank you so much for joining me for my podcast Tonight. I want to speak about being short. What a title, huh, and I'm going to call this title short and sweet. Yeah, you can contact me at sworn regina at gmailcom. I'd like to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for supporting this podcast and being a part of this podcast, and for all of those who are sending me messages right now. I'm going to contact you. Just go ahead and send your messages in and I will contact you shortly after the podcast. Thanks again for your great, great support of this podcast. Now let's get into my topic short and sweet. Whoa, this is kind of a fun podcast right now. This topic.

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A lot of people ask me everywhere I go how tall are you? How tall are you? How tall are you? Because I'm surrounded by what seems like the land of the giants, people who are taller than me. And you know, a long time ago it used to bother me because it seems like on my dad's side they're shorter. On my mom's side they're taller, as my grandfather, I think he was like 6'5", but on my mom's side, but on my dad's side they're shorter on my dad's side. So you know, like 15 years, 20 years ago, I used to just like hate it Like shorty and shortstop little bit, I mean, and people always call you the little names Little bit was the name that everybody called me all the time, little bit.

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And a lot of people say, oh, she's a cute little girl. And a lot of people say, oh, she's a cute little girl. Like when I was younger, people were really mistaking me for like someone much, much, much, much younger. And you know, at times it was a problem and so, as I said, as I got older it didn't matter as much and like now, it don't matter at all. So I don't mind now being short, but I know a lot of girls out there, guys too, who are short. I want you to know it's okay, guys, it's okay. And uh, we gotta think who sabrina sabrina carpenter's is considered short. I think the name of one of her albums is Short and Sweet, which is why I wanted to call this podcast Short and Sweet.

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Yeah, so I don't mind that Everybody I surround myself with, even guys that I dated, I always liked guys who were like really super tall, always, do, always have. If you're a couple of inches taller than me, I don't, you know know, criticize you in any wise, but I always just like those guys who are kind of tall and I've always liked that. But then everybody's going to be tall because I'm only five feet, even five feet, five, zero, zero. And you know, like I didn't know, some of my favorite stars were like short, like Pat Benatar, and you know some of my favorite stories are short and, like I say I used to talk about I probably couldn't make a podcast like this 15 years ago, probably even 10 years ago, probably even 10 years ago. But today it don't matter to me because I thank God for making me who I am. So I'm really happy with myself.

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Now I'm five feet. I weigh around about 125, 130 pounds. I've weighed a lot less than that. You know I used to weigh like 95 pounds. At one point I weighed at least 100 pounds a while back and that was just a little too small for me, for me, but it would still be in my frame because I'm only five feet. So it wouldn't matter, you know, if I was 100 pounds, but I weigh more than that. I weigh like 100, roughly 125, 130. So even that's okay. If people see my feet, they say You're so tiny.

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My shoe size is like 5 1⁄2, 6. Yeah, I don't have big feet, guys. How does it look? I'm only 5 feet, and if I had really big feet then we'd look too good with it. So my shoe size is like 5 1⁄2, but I like to have a little room in them, so I wear like a size 6.

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And my clothes typically I shop in the very petite area. I will shop in the you know for, like the teenagers, the ones who you know the well, which size is that In the very young. I can go in the very young kid uh, teenagers section and shop. I really can't. I can go there and just pick out a shirt or a top or or a pair of slacks or a skirt or whatever, and it fits me perfectly, you know. Um, so there's a lot of plus. I get a lot of pluses for being petite, a lot of pluses for me. I don't have a problem, you know, anymore with that.

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I used to hate it. I used to hate it being quite short, shorty. I used to hate that a little bit. But now it doesn't bother me because, you know, sometimes people will still say you know, you're so short, you're so, and I don't pay that much attention anymore, because sometimes the people who are saying that, I have wanted to strike back at them and say, yeah, I'm short, but you're overweight, and a lot of times the people who are saying shorty or trying to be funny or whatever, these people are morbidly overweight and then they try to stay shorty. And one girl not talking about people who are overweight, because that's a problem for people but one lady one time a few years ago she would say what's up, shorty, shorty, shorty, and she would just try to be funny. And I pulled her side one day and I said you know, I don't mind being short, that's not a look. There are millions of people who are short. Oh, my god, I'm five feet.

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Okay, this woman was morbidly, morbidly obese. I mean morbidly obese, I mean morbidly. I'm not talking about overweight, I mean like the people you see on television trying to lose weight with the doctors and stuff to show. I didn't make fun of her, though. I just pulled her aside and said you know, I find it that a lot of times people who are like she is, they sometimes are the ones who are trying to do these things.

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You don't make me feel ashamed because I'm short, my God, I look good. I mean I'm in shape, I take care of myself. You know you're taller than I am, but that don't mean anything to me. You know, like I said it once did. But I look at people and I'm like and one lady I made a mistake, I didn't mean to, because I don't like to hurt people's feelings, I really don't, and I guess I was just not feeling good that day when the lady said oh my God, you're so tiny, you're so tiny. And, regina, how tall are you? I'm like I'm five feet. So and I ask her, I say Ms Blank Blank, how much do you weigh? And I ask her that, and it made her feel so bad, she started crying. And you know I don't like making people feel bad, I just don't.

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And I, you know it gets kind of it's gotten old now, people, you know asking like how tall are you? And things like that. And it's gotten so old. And when people still ask that I'm like, oh, my god, I mean like there are so many people who are five feet, there are so many people who are a lot shorter, but it doesn't matter, you know, to me anymore and I, like I said, I don't like to hurt people's feelings. I mean I'm. I mean sometimes I don't know why people ask the question. I mean I'm in shape and stuff like that. So I really don't know why they ask to get you know, but it doesn't bother me.

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Now, you know, I like myself, I love myself, I love my height, I love the fact that I can. You know, I'm petite. I like calling myself petite because I am. I can fit into like all the clothes I need to fit into. I'm in very, very good shape, I take care of myself and so, yeah, I don't mind being that cute little teenage girl. I don't mind that.

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So, yeah, so for all of you who are short out there, it's okay guys. Um, it used to bother me a long time ago. It don't bother me anymore to for people to say, hey, shorty, or whatever. Um, it doesn't bother me, you know. So I, I hope I got you out there who is short? Don't let it get to you, don't let, don't let it bother know, so I hope I got you out there. Who is short? Don't let it get to you, don't let, don't let it bother you, I mean, and I love Sabrina Carpenter's title of her new music short and sweet, I think that was the name of her tour, was it? Or was it her album, but she's a beauty. She's a beauty too and, like I said, a lot of my celebrity people I like celebrities are, you know, are five feet or short, or shorter, and that's that's okay.

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But you know, I had to come to grips with that and I absolutely love myself now. You know, I love myself now and I can be around people who tower over me like an inferno, and I like it because I'm cute. I'm sorry that's a bad thing to say, huh, but I don't mind it. You know people say now, say now one lady say, oh, you're so cute and sexy. I don't know about the sexy word, but she's so pretty, you're so cute, You're so pretty. And I think cute means when you're short. I don't know what that means, but I'm good with it. Now it's okay. It's okay.

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The stigma and what people think how they feel doesn't bother me anymore. So I just wanted to talk about it because I, like I said, I couldn't have talked about this 15 years ago, possibly even 10 years ago, but now it's just something that don't matter to me at all. So because when I get up to sing or when I get up to do something, I just give it my all and um and one of these. There is so much power in that cute little voice of hers. So, and when I get up, I want to make this podcast because people look at my picture and I guess I look like much taller. So when you see me in person, and I'm only five feet and I'm only, you know, I'm just like a little girl, I guess. So so yeah, when you see me in person, it's like, oh, okay, so yeah, and then my pictures, I probably look taller. So I just wanted to share that.

Speaker 1:

For you to love your body I don't care if you're tall, short or wet Love you, love who you are, and I do love me. I really love myself now, and there were just always things about me that I didn't. Oh, my tea is ready. Hey, there was always things about myself that I. There were other things about myself that I, you know, I didn't like, like my eye color and things like that, you know. So there's a lot of different things that I didn't like, but I, you know, I love myself.

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Now, guys, I absolutely love myself and I encourage you out there to love you and love who you are. And I encourage you to love you and love who you are. Love you, love the person that the Lord made, the person that God made, because God didn't make all of us the same. If he made all of us the same, this world would be so boring and I know a lot of you probably say the world is boring anyway. But seriously, if everybody was the same, that's why I don't like the quote when people say great minds think alike, because to me, great minds does not think alike. Great minds think. You know differently. You know which makes it great? Because you are a different person. I'm a different person and we got different body sizes, you know, and so that's okay, that's okay. So I just wanted to make this podcast. I honestly hope that it inspires someone out there to love who you are, love the person you are, love that person who you are because, again, god made you and you made me.

Speaker 1:

I'm regina soren. Thank you so much for joining me. For regina soren audio series presents. You can contact me at soren regina at gmailcom, and thank you to all of those who support this podcast monthly. It means an absolute whole lot to me. Thank you to those who share and those who download. You are the best, you're the greatest. Thank you, mwah. Thank you.