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Dating someone who’s a vastly different height brings a lot of challenges.

Just try taking a decent selfie with them. It’s tough.

A quick kiss means back strain for the tall half of the couple or some impressive jumping skills from the short one.

For Sophie Hines, who measures in at just 5ft, the biggest issue with her relationship with a 6ft 7in boyfriend is the harassment she receives online.


Sophie, 26, says she’s regularly told off by taller women for ‘taking one of the tall boys’.

Thankfully, both she and her tall boyfriend Miles find the anger hilarious.



Sophie said: ‘Our height difference hasn’t affected our relationship at all. I wouldn’t have him any other way.

‘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.

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‘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.

‘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”.

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‘He just has to say the same things over and over again.’

Sophie admits that the height difference does attract some interesting questions.

The first one is usually ‘how do you have sex?’

The couple have also been mistaken for a dad and daughter thanks to their difference in size.



Miles thinks they look great together.

‘I like our height difference,’ he said. ‘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.

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‘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.’

The couple met through working at the bank, speaking properly when Sophie joined Miles’ team. They had seen each other around since Sophie was 18, and after they started dating they found an old picture where they had posed together in a club to make fun of their difference in size.

‘I’ve always known him as “Miles the tall boy”,’ said Sophie. ‘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.


‘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.

‘It came up on my timehop [on Facebook] when I was working with him and I was like, ‘oh my god, look at this’.

‘I always thought he was cute. He just always used to look cool, I loved the way he looked. He had really long hair and he only just got it cut this year but it used to be past his shoulders.

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‘He always looked really cool to me and I used to think, I just want a boyfriend like that. And then we ended up together – I got him in the end.’

The couple have a baby, Remy, who Miles reckons will be a tall boy too.

‘He’s got a massive head, massive hands and massive feet so I’m pretty confident he’s going to be big like me,’ said Miles.

‘I’m quite lean as well, so I’d like it if he grows up to be a proper unit. I don’t think it will take him long to outgrow Sophie.’

Despite struggles with selfies and questions about their sex life, Sophie and Miles are happy they’ve found each other, and want to encourage people not to let height put them off someone great.

Sophie 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.’

Miles adds: ‘I definitely think people shouldn’t let their ego or any other social pretense guide them because they’ll limit themselves and not find someone they really love.

‘I don’t think Sophie had been with anyone really tall before me. Everyone is her family is pretty short as well.

‘I guess you look for a partner with the things you haven’t got, subconsciously maybe.’

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