Heights of love (22 photos)
Does height matter when you're in love? Sometimes the woman in the pair is taller, sometimes vice versa. In any case, attractiveness always trumps height.
1. Tom Cruise won when he proposed to former Dawson's Creek star Katie Holmes at the Eiffel Tower in 2005. After all, his ex-wife Nicole Kidman was 8.89 cm taller than him, and his mother Suri was only 5 cm taller. Well, for the sake of this, it’s not a sin to jump on the couch on some talk show! (Dan Steinberg/AP)
2. 1.85-meter actor Dax Shepard has taken his career to new heights with comedies such as "Date of My Dreams" and "Oh Mommies." Kristen Bell is only 1.53 meters tall, but in her career she has reached certain heights (“Veronica Mars”, “Once Upon a Time in Rome”). The couple began dating in 2007 and got engaged in February 2010. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
3. Stacey Ann Fergusson, aka Fergie, who is only 157 cm tall, regularly appears at the top of the charts - both as part of the Black Eyed Peas and in her solo project. In 2004, she began dating 1.9-meter Hollywood ladies' man Josh Duhamel, and in January 2009 they tied the knot. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
4. The granddaughter of the creator of Willy Wonka Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal Sophia Dahl is no longer the plump one she was as a child, but in height she still has a noticeable advantage over the English musician Jamie Kalam. Sofia, who met her fiancé at a breast cancer charity event where they sang two songs together, seems to love musicians. It was previously reported that she had a relationship with Mick Jagger. (Stuart Wilson/Getty Images)
5. Actor Peter Dinklage appeared in films such as The Chronicles of Narnia and The Station Agent, despite the fact that he is only 134 cm tall due to congenital chondrodystrophy. In 2005, he married theater director Erica Schmidt, who is much taller than him. (Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)
6. Rising New Zealand country star Keith Urban is dominating the music charts despite being only 170cm tall. Actress Nicole Kidman is 5 cm taller than him. They got married in Australia in 2006, and in July 2008 their first daughter, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, was born. (Robyn Beck/AFP - Getty Images)
7. Khloe Kardashian, who starred with her sisters Kim and Kourtney in the reality show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” can hardly be called short with her height of 175 cm. But she is no different from her husband, Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom. - still far away, because his height is only 2 meters 8 cm. They got married in September 2009. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
8. Actor Will Arnett appeared in the TV series “Arrested Development” and the film “Blades of Glory: Ice Stars.” Amy Poehler became his co-star in the film Blades of Glory: Stars on Ice, as well as on the shows Saturday Night Live and the TV series Parks and Recreation. The 188cm Arnett and 157cm Poehler gave birth to son Archibald "Archie" William Emerson Arnett in October 2008. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
9. “Do you think I’m sexy?” - Rod Stewart received a clear “yes” to this question from the English model and photographer Penny Lancaster, despite the fact that she is several centimeters taller than him. It's funny, Rod's ex-wife Rachel Hunter beat Penny in the race to become the face of Ultimo lingerie, but Penny beat her to become the new Mrs. Stewart. They got married in June 2007. She eventually gave birth to his son back in 2005, who already has six siblings from five different women. (Andrew Parsons/AP)
11. The 177-centimeter Stephen Colletti is known to television viewers from the TV series “Laguna Beach” and the film “One Tree Hill.” He is dating "Heroes" star Hayden Panotier, who is 5ft 1in (1.54m) (Peter Kramer/Getty Images)
11. Christina Ritchie shone in films such as “The Opposite of Sex” and “Black Snake Moan”, despite her diminutive height – only 1.54 m. She was once engaged to comedian Owen Benjamin, despite her 43 cm difference between them. (Jason Mitchell/FilmMagic)
12. Better known as Meadow from The Sopranos, Jamie-Lynn Sigler is only 164 cm, but in heels she appears taller than actor Jerry Ferrara - Turtle from the movie Entourage. They were spotted together at the Los Angeles premiere of The Hangover in June 2009. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
13. The actress, singer and superstar Will Smith's wife Jada may have come from A Different World (and we don't just mean the show), they make one of the strongest couples in showbiz. Together they starred in the film Ali (he received an Oscar nomination for the role, and she played Cassius Clay's first wife) and in the TV series Every One of Us, a sitcom based on their own lives. Together they also produce their son Jaden and daughter Willow, who starred with her dad in some films.(Jason Szenes/EPA)
14. Paris-born actress, singer and model Emmanuelle Seiger is 1.72 m, which makes her 7 cm taller than her husband Roman Polanski, famous not only for his films, but also for his marriage to murdered actress Sharon Tate, as well as for his arrest in 1977 year for the rape of a 13-year-old girl. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
15. Since Desperate Housewives star Eva Langoria is from Corpus Christi, Texas, it's only natural that she roots for the San Antonio Spurs basketball team, and one player in particular: Frenchman Tony Parker. Parker noticed Eva, despite her diminutive stature, and the couple soon announced their engagement on a radio broadcast. This was in 2006. In between receiving a Golden Globe for the TV series “Desperate Housewives” and going into a big movie, Eva managed to star in a video clip for a song from her husband’s new hip-hop album. (Chris Pizzello/AP)
16. Better known for his role as the diminutive Mini-Me in the last two Austin Powers films, 75cm Verne Troyer decided to conquer real heights and married Genevieve Galen, a yoga instructor who showed off all the charms of her height in Playboy magazine. Although, perhaps, they did not get along in character: Troyer later filed for divorce. (Vince Bucci/Getty Images)
17. The height of actor Freddie Prinze Jr. is 1.84 m, and the former “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” actress Sarah Michelle Gellar is only 1.59 m. But the difference in height did not prevent them from starring together in the film “Scooby Doo” in 2002, soon after which they got married (in 2007, Gellar officially changed her last name to Sarah Michelle Prince). In September they welcomed their daughter, Charlotte Grace Prince. (Claire Greenway/Getty Images)
18. Writer Salman Rashdie has risen to prominence in the world of books, winning the Booker Prize and many other awards, but next to actress and singer Pia Glenn he seems short, because she is 184 cm tall. Salman Rashdie has been married four times, but at the film festival Tribeca in April 2009 saw him with Pia. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)
19. Former star Gary Coleman chose a taller, younger wife, Shannon Price, whom he stunned in a mountaintop wedding on her birthday in 2007. Due to congenital kidney disease, Coleman stopped growing at an early age. And although his condition did not interfere with his career as a child, as an adult he faced financial and personal problems. Yet he often appears on television shows, and even ran for governor of California. (Richard Drew/AP)
20. Speaking of “Strange Love”: the tall Dutch actress Brigitte Nielsen had affairs with Sylvester Stallone, football player Mark Gustinet and rapper Flavor Flo. However, Bridget switched to a different kind of man, marrying bartender Mattia Dessi in July 2006. Her best man at the wedding was Ivanka Trump. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
21. Sir Mick has always been a tumbleweed - his many girlfriends included Bianca Jagger, Jerry Hall, Marianne Faithfull, Janice Dickinson and Carla Bruni. As a result, the rock legend has seven children from four women. Surprisingly, the tall and graceful designer and ex-model L'ren Scott became his "main interest." (Evan Agostini/AP)
22. Better known for his characters Borat and Bruno, British actor-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is 1.80 m tall, and Australian actress Isla Fisher is only 1.59 m tall. But their love knows no barriers. In October 2007, Isla gave birth to a daughter, Olive Baron Cohen, from Sasha. (Vince Bucci/Getty Images)