- I'm sure Steve Madden is a very nice man,
but these heels are not nice.
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- I'm pretty confident with my height,
except when I'm around people who are
all sort of in the five three, five four
and you go shopping and you're the green giant.
- I'm nervous about wearing heels
because I try and not seem tall.
- I do like wearing heels.
I feel super fucking fly when I wear heels.
I'll walk around and be like, "I look so good"
and then I go back to my car and be like,
"My feet hurt so bad."
But I feel like if I wear heels
it's very aggressive, so I don't do that.
- I'm basically the exact same height
as my boyfriend right now.
I don't think he really cares if I were
taller than him in heels,
but I feel insecure about it for some reason.
- I feel powerful.
I think I'm going to get a lot more attention.
I think you're going to get the overt
sort of up and down stare.
- I'm definitely not getting drunk in these.
This would be very bad.
- I'm going to scare small children,
large children, adults, I'm going to scare adults.
I need to learn how to stand up straight.
It's clear because I'm already like,
"No, like don't look at me!"
- I'm excited! My feet are not as excited.
(laughing) But I'm excited.
- I just walked back from where we were shooting
to the office and my feet are killing me.
But I'm almost as tall as Garrett, which is a fun thing.
- The toilet is really far away when I go to sit down.
It's very far from my butt.
- Oh beep, you're so tall.
You make me feel shorter than usual.
You're like a giant though, look at these legs.
- I look like a giant.
- So, I just finished being at an awards show
for the Latinos de Hoy.
I definitely stood out, I was definitely the tallest person.
When I say person I mean man or women
or beast really, but it was awesome,
they put be in V-I-P and I wasn't at V-I-P.
But when you're tall and stand out,
apparently it means you're something.
- Okay, so this is how tall I am next to Ty.
What do you think about me being
this much taller than you, with my heels on?
- I don't care.
- No?
- Yeah, I don't mind, it's kind of fun.
- I'm over the people caring that I'm taller
than them because I'm six three in these heels
but I really would just like my shoes back
so I can rush to class because I'm running late.
- One of my coworkers called me The Statue of Liberty
which I don't really get because Statue of Liberty
I think stands for freedom and not tall women.
Overall, it's been a great experience,
I feel like I'll be wearing heels more often.
It was a good look for me.
- I've stopped really noticing
my specific height difference.
I'm not nearly as self conscious today
as I was the other days,
about being taller than my boyfriend.
- I am officially very sick of wearing heels.
I don't want to wear them anymore.
- So, it's been a week.
- It's been a very long week.
- But an empowering week.
- It was amazing. I feel sexier, more confident.
- It was interesting for me to have
to face my fear of being really tall.
- Look how little I am! If you put it higher, I'm gone.
- My boyfriend didn't seem to mind at all.
Which I wonder if it would be different
if we had just started dating,
but since we've been dating for a while
he just felt kind of like a baller.
- Do you feel like a baller with a tall girlfriend?
- Hell yeah.
- There were just so many things
that the six inch heels just wouldn't let me do.
I was running late to class because it makes me walk slower.
I had low grade anxiety about falling over
or being bumped into.
- I got a lot of phone numbers, so that's always good.
You know when you're the best dressed in the room
it's a different sort of energy.
An energy I liked, because people paid more attention to me.
- I think I really did get over my fear of that,
"Being the tall girl thing."
- Sometimes I want to wear heels,
and now I actually feel like I will.
Yeah, because no one gives a shit.
It's just all in my head.
Here they come, they're coming off.
- [Safiya] Oh my god,
literally my toes are so numb.
- It feels good to be back on the ground.