A 5ft mum claims the huge height difference she has with her 6ft 7in boyfriend makes taller girls so jealous they berate her for "taking one of the tall boys".
Sophie Hines, 28, Googled celebrities with large height differences before she started dating Miles Lloyd, 26, to be reassured that they wouldn't look "ridiculous" together.
What is now a happy relationship could have actually started ten years previously when the then strangers posed together in a club because of their height difference, a recently emerged photo showed.
One of the most common questions they get asked is how they have sex - a topic also on Sophie's mind when they first got together.
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Despite the fact they have been mistaken for a dad and daughter, the lovebirds are happy with the 1ft 7in between them.
Some online commentators are less content with the height difference however.
Sophie has had angry "taller girls" rant at her online and say she should "leave the tall boys alone" and pick on someone her own size.
Sophie and Miles, who share six-month-old son Remy Lloyd, admit it is a struggle when posing for selfies together and Miles often ends up with his head chopped out.
Sophie, from Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, said: "Our height difference hasn't affected our relationship at all. I wouldn't have him any other way.
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"I always say to him, 'do you wish I was taller?' but he always says, 'no, I love it that you're small'. I've never met any other couple with the same height difference as us.
"When we go out we get so many looks. It was weird at first but we've definitely embraced it now. Miles is so oblivious to it.
"When we first got together it was when Kourtney Kardashian was going out with Younes Bendjima and they had a massive height difference too.
"I was Googling pictures of Kourtney with her boyfriend and was worrying we would look ridiculous, so I had to Google to make sure I wasn't the only one.
"I think people notice his height more because I'm so short. If I was 5"9 or something, I don't think they would really notice it as much. But there's such a contrast between us it makes it more noticeable."
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Miles, who sometimes feels like "a normal man in a tall man's body", enjoys the size contrast between their collection of size 12 and size 3 trainers.
Miles, also from Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, said: "I like our height difference. I love being out with her and showing off. We look very good together.
"We never spoke about the height difference when we started going out. I like that she's small, I just like her.
"It's amazing though. I can't believe there are so many people interested in us. We just embrace it.
"I feel like I'm a normal man stuck in a tall man's body. I don't even feel like I'm that tall - it's really surprising when people say it.
"I must get comments five or six times a day. I always ask them how tall they think I am because they always get it right first time anyway, so it's pointless, they didn't need to ask."
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The couple, who both work as underworkers in the same bank, had always noticed each other at the office but never spoke until Sophie joined Miles' team.
Sophie said: "I've known him since I was 18 - not to talk to, but I've always seen him around. I saw him out loads of times and we worked in the same place for five years.
"I've always known him as 'Miles the tall boy'. We had never had a conversation but had seen each other around before we started going out. I remember just thinking how tall he was.
"We got a picture in a nightclub together, randomly, from when we were about 18. I think I just got the picture with him because he was so tall.
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"It's so weird, and we look so different in the picture - and then 10 years later we have a baby together. It's so strange. I don't remember it."
The dad-of-one claims he had always been shorter than his friends as a teenager, but suddenly shot up by six inches when he turned 16.
Miles said: "That's the thing - all my friends were taller than me at one point. It was only when I turned 16 that I shot up.
"I've not always been this big. I probably went from about 5"8 to about 6"1 or 2 in a year - I grew about six inches in a short space of time.
"My dad is 6"1 and my mum is 5"11 which is quite tall for a woman.
"Now we've got a little boy called Remy, and he's got massive hands and feet."
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The couple claim they get a lot of questions about the logistics of their relationship and are even quizzed on their sex life.
Sophie said "it all works for us".
Sophie, who is a mum-of-two, said: "Loads of people ask us how we kiss. He has to crouch and I go on tiptoes - there is no other way.
"We get so many comments about how we have sex. I actually said that to him before we get together - how do you do it?
"But he said it's only his legs that are long - his body is a normal size. It all works for us, anyway. I just can't believe that that's the first thing that people think of.
"I find it hard to frame a picture with both of us in. I normally just take selfies and things in the car because I know I can fit both of us in.
"We've got a full length mirror in our house and I've got loads where his head is just completely cut off. It's him neck down, and that's it."
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But despite being very happy together, Sophie claims she does get challenged by taller girls and has received negative comments online.
Sophie said: "A lot of angry tall girls have said I should leave the tall boys alone. There are a lot of angry tall girls who say, 'my boyfriend is smaller than me, why have you taken a tall one'.
"But I can't help it, can I? It's such a silly comment. You can't help who you like. I'm not going to dismiss someone because they're tall and just go out with someone who is 5"5.
"I 100% confront people when they make comments about him - I have to do it.
"Miles definitely gets bored of [being asked about his height]. I want to get him a little card made up so that when people come up to him he can give them a little card that says, 'I'm 6"7, no I don't play basketball'.
"He just has to say the same things over and over again."
