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lankyryan93
Whats Your Growth Story?
Posted by lankyryan93 on Jan 12th 2012

Okay so here’s mine

I had never really been bothered about my height at all, at aged 13 I was 5ft 6 which suited me fine for the age and was anticipating to reach at least my fathers height of 5ft 10. Since no one in our family is over 6ft 3, my three cousins in their 20s are around 6ft 2/3 and I use to think they where huge when I was younger, well not now lol.

I found out, really by chance that my moms grandfather born in in the mid 1890s, was 6ft 6 (extremely tall for the time and I also discovered that my dads great grandfather was 6ft 7 according to my grand parents. So I then kinda of new that there was tall gene coming from both sides of my family, although I really didn’t think much of it.

It was when I was around 15 that i began to get a lot taller and after about 18 months or so I reached 5ft 11. From then on I kept growing and growing, and surpassed my cousins height of 6ft 2 a year or so later.

I went through several sizes of shoes yearly lol and I honestly though I might reach 7 foot, who knows. I’m currently 6ft 7. Jeans and trousers became a nightmare to find, but now I’m pleased with my height


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bigz
Re: Whats Your Growth Story?
Posted by bigz on Jan 17th 2012

Well goodluck on your possible journey to 7 feet. =P Although I dont know of many people who had significant growth spurts at your age but..hey anything can happen!


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simonh
Re: Whats Your Growth Story?
Posted by simonh on Jan 18th 2012

By 15 I had stopped growing and had reached 5’5” and by this time boys of 13 and 14 were taller than me.

When I was in my final year at school, aged 17-18, there were lots of younger boys of 15 who towered over me, all over 6 foot. The tallest i remember was about 6’5”, aged 15 and he was pretty scary to me! That was when I finally realised that I was destined to be pretty much towered over from then on!


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