Hate having big feet

I can honestly say I have never noticed the size of anyone’s feet or thought anything about it. I’m a size 7, or an 8 in pointed toe heels. I thought that was pretty normal size as my sister and mum are both the same size. They’re just feet, I don’t give them any further thought really.

Can I ask you folks how wide your feet are? I'm a size 5.5 and the widest part of my foot (across my toes) is 4.2 inches.

Sargasso & Grey do an Extra Wide EEE fit, I wear their size 43. They are expensive but nice quality.
Any other suggestions for extra wide fit in large sizes would be appreciated.

If it makes you feel any better, although mine are only a size 5.5, they are WIDE! My toes are basically a square box. They hardly taper at all. Clarks E width feels a little tight. I certainly can never wear dainty narrow pointed shoes. And most shoes aren't made in wide widths, so...

I also have stupidly wide hip bones, so much so that I look very thin from the side but very wide from the back. Shift-style skirts and dresses look like they're hung flat between two poles. I have actually wondered if wide feet and wide hip bones go together. It would make sense, because the feet surely have to be broad enough to balance the wide load above, lol! I would love to have narrow hips and narrow feet.

Anyway, OP, you're not the only one who doesn't like their feet!

Well have size 11 feet.lol Getting shoes sucks

As someone who inherited up a whole host of insecurities from my mum, trust me: she’ll be aware. You talk about yourself very unkindly and it’s likely she’ll have either picked up on that, or the complaining about lack of shoe options.

Edited to add that if you think the fact that some women get breast enlargements means it’s normal to hate parts of your body then I imagine your insecurities are very obvious.

Be nicer to yourself and to your feet! They get you around!

I don’t think many people notice the size of other people’s feet!

It must be a pain if not all shoes go up to the size you need. But often you can get shoes at either the smaller or larger end of the scale in the sale, where as you rarely get anything much in the sale when you’re a 5 or 6.

That mightn’t sound like a big bonus but it’s annoying when you go into a lovely shoe shop sale and all the nice shoes are only reduced in size 3 or 8!

I have the opposite problem. I'm a size 3/3.5. If I do find a size 3 it's far too narrow, because apparently my short feet must be the width of a ruler. I'm often told to 'buy from the kids section'. no thanks!! I need/want adult shoes & proper support.

There's now only ONE shoe store in my city that caters to my size and you're looking at £100-£150 a pair. I can't buy online. I've tried but nothing fits. The store I used (warehouse style) closed & is only online now.

Im a podiatrist and size 8 isnt big any more. Im regularly having tall girls coming in with size 10 to 12. Kids are getting bigger.
Unfortunately shoe shops arent keeping up with this rising change.

10.5 very narrow AA width. Yep, big fat pain. I am also slender build...and 6ft 3 and yep a real female.

I have coped with downsizing my expectations to very little choice 🤣

My mother had size 11 feet. It was a nightmare for her to find shoes in the 60s and 70s. She had to go to a shop in London. She wasn't a trainers kind of lady.

“Doesnt everyone have things they hate about them though?”

Maybe, if their mum passed their insecurities down onto them.

Not liking things about yourself isn’t an inevitability. You can’t change the size of your feet but you can change how you talk about them when it’s looking likely your daughter will have the same.

I can understand being annoyed by the practical side but it sounds like you have a really unhealthy obsession with it, and how it somehow makes you not “feminine” enough. You’re going to give your daughter a complex for no good reason, and I don’t understand why you think that’s ok, and it’s just normal to hate parts of your own body. It’s not.

This! I’m 5’6 and my feet are a size 4! I fall over all the time! (Tbf I do have RA but my stupid small feet and tiny stubby toes don’t help)

Yes this is me. I buy early in the season. I now know what brands shoes fit me and what just don’t work.
I feel you pain. I would love to be a size 7

I wear a men’s size 11. It ruins all outfits as obviously no feminine choices. I’m also exceptionally tall though so that’s probably more noticeable than my feet. It was definitely something I was very self conscious of as a child, but not something I think that much about now.

Im a size 10 and narrow. Nightmare getting quality footwear

Only if your fitting is narrow. Size 8 WIDE fit are a nightmare 😩

But at 9 which could be year 4 some girls are wearing those T bar shoes/Mary Janes with the younger styles still. I had to wear those at may primary school until I was 11 but I don't think children at that age would tolerate that now.

😂 Yes, get your feet reduced OP. For a measly 17k and minor mutilation, it’s surely worth it.