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I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

I've been six feet tall since the sixth grade.

I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.

I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.

Being tall when I was youngerl I was always a bit awkward. As a teenager, I was very, very thin, so I was very gangly and limby, and would sweep things off the table without realising how big my wingspan was - just out of control. A lot of women write to me and say, 'I'm six foot and exactly the same happens' - that's been lovely therapy.