Anyone else with size 8 feet and feel paranoid about how big they are!

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Just that! Hate them

I'm an 8 - used to be a 7 but have mysteriously grown since having a baby. I'm 5ft 8 so they seem in proportion. DH has size 12/13 so they seem small compared to his!

Our 18m old has huge feet already!

I was self conscious when I was little (about my height too)but since I got older I never think about it... I'll never be a tiny petite woman but that's OK.

I'm just over 5'9 and a size 8-9, I am so self conscious of my feet. I'm limited on shoe choice because I never want them to look bigger.

Wow just read the comment at the party! That is so so rude. What a prick 🤬

5ft10 with size 9 or 10 depending on the style. 11 n half in running shoes. A LOT of people take the piss and one now learnt to start of pointing out my “flaw” and laughing myself before someone else can point it out and make me feel self conscious...

5'8 with size 8 feet since about age 12. Never give it a thought. I love shoes and boots but don't think of myself as big footed

It's weird I've seen this thread now as recently my feet have gone for a 7 to an 8 (after having a baby) and I hate it!! I don't think they look too big but I feel so embarrassed even asking the shop assistant for an 8, which is stupid I know. I don't have a single friend/family member who has feet even nearly my size. I hate it when the shoe has the size obviously written on them too.

Size 9 since I had my kids. Not at all paranoid. Most shops don't go up to that size so usually go online. Miss out on cute styles though.

Size 7.5 feet. Size 8 trainers.

My feet fit the rest of me. I’m 5’8”
I used to hate them, but I used to hate being tall too. Now I love both.

I’m 5’10 and size 7.5 shoe usually, but can go up to an 8 or down to a 7. Used to feel a bit embarrassed by them when I was younger and try to squeeze into a smaller size, but I don’t give it much thought now. Some shoes look worse than others In terms of size, but my favourite shoes at the moment definitely make my feet look bigger than they are and I wear them anyway because they are comfy.

I know someone who is 6’2 and a size 10 shoe and her feet look very much in proportion. She has long, elegant feet.

I wears 7s and 8s and, yes, I'm conscious of how big my feet are. I am 5 ft 7, though, so I suppose I'd tip over if they were a dainty size 4.

I'm most conscious when I wear pointy shoes. The extra length needed so you can get your toes in makes shoes feel like winklepickers at times!

On top of that, my feet are riddled with arthritis, covered in surgical scars and my toes look odd as I've got screws in them.

Ugh. I hate my feet.

I'm an 8/9 and it o ly bithers me when I struggle to buy shoes.
My son is a size 15 and people always comment...he's 6' 8" too.

6ft 2 and size 8, or 9 if they don't do then wide enough. I still remember the absolute hell of buying school shoes in the 90s

I’ve been a size 8 since I was 10. One of my feet is bigger than the other and I’ve found the odd pair of 9’s.

As a teenager in the 90’s I loved Dolcis. I’m 5ft 5 and overweight but am happy with my shoe size.

My mother used to refer to my feet as canal boats. It made me hate them, and I’ve stuffed them by squeezing them into too small shoes.
I’m 5 8 and size 7.

5'7" and wide 7-8 feet (getting wider thanks to the family bunions)... I'm in proportion so it doesn't really bother me, I like being able to buy men's shoes when I can't find anything sensible in the women's section (why do women's walking boots all have to have pink bits?!). My 11 year old son is about to overtake me though, so I'm soon going to have the smallest feet in the family! His older brother has already overtaken his father...

I remember NY eve this year, my friend's husband was stood at the side of me in the kitchen and I was wearing heels and he said 'How big are your feet?' In a shocked way. He is the same size as me. All my friends are roughly the same size and size 5/6

You what??? How rude and spiteful of him.

I’m a size 8 (and a 9 in some brands: 41 is a 7.5, not an 8, but some brands insist on calling a 41 size 8). I have been in 8s since I was 12. I’m 5’8” and I’ve never thought that my feet look out of proportion. I’ve got long, elegant fingers and matching toes, and long arms and legs so it would be weird if I had little feet.

However, I have had snide comments. Usually from men! The sub-text appears to be “how dare you not be tiny and feminine” or “here’s something I can have a dig at you for, to really get at you”.

The most recent one was last year, AT WORK, FROM MY (ex) MALE BOSS. Context: I was in a very senior finance role. Him, of course, even more so. I’m 48, he’s 51. He’s the type to go a bit too far with the ‘Bantz’ in our open plan office, but being a bit smarter than him and having more confidence than my colleagues I usually ran rings around him. Notice the past tense: I work somewhere else now. Anyway...

It was the end of the day and I was changing out of my heels, at my desk, into flat shoes for the walk to the station and journey home. I got the shoes out of their shoe bag (French Sole silver glitter ballet pumps, they are gorgeous) and put them on the floor. He came over to ask me something about work, saw the shoes on the floor and said, loudly, “God! How big are your feet?”

Now usually I’d be quick with a smart response but I’ll be honest, that comment cut me to the quick! It was a personal, disdainful remark about my appearance. I’m always well-dressed and I’m attractive, so it felt like he was hitting below the belt, because what woman wants to have her appearance criticised by somebody with authority over her, in front of her peers and members of her team?

It felt like he was trying to humiliate me for the size of my feet because he couldn’t get me on anything else, if that makes any sense?

It said more about him than me, of course, and I wasn’t sorry to start a new job with a different business in January.

@Iamthewombat
Complete loser.
Did you manage a comeback?

No!!! I thought of many afterwards, of course, but at the time it was all I could do not to start making excuses for having long feet.

It’s body shaming really, isn’t it?

What I should have said is, “GOD, HOW SMALL IS YOUR PENIS???”

Haha just what I was thinking..that would have shut him.up.

Yep! Size 8 and 5ft 5in. Always felt like I've had clown feet. Shoes never look nice on me! Humph! Family of massive feet though, brother has size 14s

That’s the one I thought of
What a lowlife

Yes it is bodyshaming. My mother gave me low self esteem and horrible insecurities which I have spent my whole life trying to overcome.
Her comments about my feet have stayed with me sadly.

Mine are size 42, and I think of them as long, rather than big. I don't feel bad about my long arms (graceful, makes touching toes easier) so why should I feel bad about my long feet?

Exactly! Be proud of your long and elegant feet. I’m sorry that your mum behaved as she did, @RickOShay. You’d wonder whether she was projecting her own insecurities on to you?

Eddie Murphy made a film called ‘Boomerang’ when I was about 21. The only two good things about the film are Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt each doing a brilliant comic turn but there was a creepy aspect to it too. Eddie’s character, a womaniser type, was obsessed with the size of women’s feet and made regular remarks about how he couldn’t be attracted to women with bigger feet because they looked like men’s feet etc etc.

I suspect some of dear old Eddie’s own prejudices made it into the script, but at the time, being less confident as we all are in our early twenties, I thought, oh heck, is this something everybody except me knows, that women with big feet will never be attractive, even to rampant lotharios?

Of course, it was utter bollocks but thanks for stoking the insecurities of a generation of women, scriptwriters of Boomerang.