28-year-old Marie Temara stands at a whopping six foot, two inches tall — ten inches over the average 5′ 4″ American woman.
A 6-foot-2-inch content creator revealed how she went from being bullied for her height to making $100,000 per month on OnlyFans. Marie Temara, 27, who towers 10 inches above the average US woman, has admitted she used to be embarrassed about her height and wished she was shorter.
A 6ft 2ins woman who initially wanted to shrink says her height is now her superpower and she's earning a staggering £250k a month on OnlyFans. Marie Temara, 27, felt insecure about her long legs for years - until she found fame on social media.
6 feet is extremely tall for a woman. A majority of men aren't even 6 feet. In the US, the average height for a woman is 5′4 and a man is 5′10. You would be 8 inches taller than the average woman and 2 inches taller than the average man.
Through her videos, Temara shares that she is actually the shortest in her family at 6 feet 2 inches tall, as her mother stands 6 feet 5 inches tall, and her younger siblings at 6 feet 9 inches and 6 feet 10 inches.
Standing at 6 feet, 2 inches tall, Marie Temara is the oldest in her family of five – but rings in as the shortest. The self-proclaimed tallest family on TikTok has gone viral online, with some clips amassing millions of views.
A 6-foot, 2-inch model said she's making a living showing off her height on OnlyFans — but finding a date is a tall order. Marie Temara, 28, often goes viral on TikTok as she documents her life as a tall woman, but while she has thousands of fans online, her dating pool is much smaller.
Roughly 1% of US women are 6 feet tall or taller. The equivalent height cutoff for US men (only 1% of population taller) is about 6ʹ4″.
That's easy when the average American female is 5'4”, well below the standard male height of 5'9”. In fact, according to U.S. Census records, less than 0.5 percent of women are six feet and higher.
Tall women are rare: The average adult woman's height in the U.S . falls between 5-foot-1.3 and 5-foot-4.1 according to a 2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study.
An OnlyFans model called Temara is 6 feet 2 inches tall and she earns £80k per month by acting like a giant on the adult app. She makes varied videos where she talks about the advantage she has with her height. She stands around normal things that look small in front of her.
Her mom, Christine Temara, 61, is 195cm and her dad, Mike Temara, 62, is 193cm. The parents met while Christine was in New Zealand, where Marie's dad is from, playing professional basketball. Her mum is from Syracuse, New York.
Rumeysa Gelgi is the tallest woman in the world. She's around 7 feet tall.
The record for the tallest woman who ever lived is held by a Chinese record holder: Zeng Jinlian. Zeng was born in 1964 in the Yujiang village, in the Bright Moon Commune, Hunan Province. When she passed away in 1982, she measured an average of 246.3 cm (8 ft 1 in) – earning herself the title of tallest woman ever.
Rumeysa Gelgi, the 26-year-old Turkish-born woman, is the tallest woman in the world, measuring in at 7 feet 0.7 inches, or 215 centimeters. She holds the 2023 Guinness World Record for being the tallest woman.
Runway Models
The height requirements are 5.9 and above for female models and between 5'11" to 6'2" for male models. The fashion industry is very strict and has high, and sometimes unreasonable standards.
And that sounds great if you're part of the 85% that's under six feet tall, but we do run into a bit of a social problem. You see, women tend to prefer men that are six feet or taller. They mention it in surveys; they filter guys out on dating websites by it.
What is this? Based on those numbers, it would be safe to say that anything more than 5'5 should be considered tall for women. So, if you are a woman who's 5'7 consider yourself amongst the lucky ones who has been blessed with an additional few inches.
6′2″ is 95th-97th percentile height for men and for women it's 99.99th percentile height. So yes 6′2″ is tall for a man and extremely tall for a woman.
To put this simply, if we talk about a 6′1 woman, we are talking about a 6′6 man. They are both big, but not gigantic. It is perfectly normal for a woman to be 6′1 or a man to be 6′6.
Only 14.5 percent of men in the U.S. are over 6 feet tall — 3.9 percent are 6'2 or taller. The research that I found says that 10 percent of men are 6 feet or taller in the world. If you are 6'2, you are taller than 94% of men in the world.