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Trolls mistake my 5-foot-5 ‘short king’ husband for my son —but we’re so in love
By Asia Grace,
26 days ago
True love is in short supply.
So, rather than hold out for a tall, dark and handsome hunk, Cassandra Gaspard snagged herself someone sweet, petite and who barely stood at 5 feet.
“It’s a little odd that people look at [our] height difference and think we don’t deserve to be in a relationship,” Cassandra, 29, a 5-foot-10 customer care representative from NYC, told South West News Service.
People regularly think Cassandra’s short king husband, Westin, is her son. Zenobia Philippe / SWNS
She and her 5-foot-5 hubby, Westin, 32, a technical account manager, took the plunge in May.
“You love who you love,” the high-rise bride said of her fun-size sweetheart — who’s often mistaken as her child.
“In real life, people don’t come up to me. They come up to my wife,” admitted Westin.
“They said, ‘How can you be with him? He’s so short.’”
The viral dating movement — which also spotlighted Manhattan fashionista Caroline Vazzana, who towers over 5-foot-7 husband David Lopes — encouraged women worldwide to give little fellas a shot at winning their hearts.
However, the lopsided love goes against the laws of nature, per experts.
Researchers have determined that shorter women tend to be attracted to taller men due to biological, evolutionary and societal influencers. Drobot Dean – stock.adobe.com
Heterosexual women are generally attracted to tall men due to evolutionary, biological and social reasons, Avigail Lev, founder and director of the Bay Area CBT Center in San Francisco, Calif., recently explained to Fox News .
Nicole Moore, a certified life coach in Beverly Hills, added: “This has to do with insidious cultural programming that makes us feel that a woman must always be physically smaller than her male partner.”
But Cassandra, who’s always stood head-and-shoulders above men, chose not to let height dwarf her chance for romance.
“I grew up taller than everybody. I was the oddball out,” said the statuesque siren. “I accepted in my 20s that I couldn’t change.
“Now I’m mostly in heels.”
Cassandra unabashedly wears high heels while out with her small husband. Cassandra Gaspard / SWNS
The tall temptress even rocked a pair of 5-inch pumps on her first date with Westin after swiping right on his Tinder dating profile in 2017.
And her bitty boo is just as bold.
“My height is what it is. I can’t stretch myself,” said Westin. “I always carried myself in a confident way.”
The unlikely lovers decided not make their little height difference a big deal.
“When I met my wife, I said, ‘You’re tall and there is nothing you can do about it. And I’m small and there is nothing I can do about it,’” he added. “We never cared about it.”
In fact, Westin’s found that having a hulking hottie often comes in handy.
“It’s a blessing,” he bragged. “If something is up on a shelf and I can’t get it, guess who I’m calling? My wife.”
Westin says he often relies on his tall bride to help him with things that are out of his reach. properpix / SWNS
And the mini inamorato is always ready to jump to Cassandra’s rescue, too.
“I’m a boxer. I can protect my wife,” insisted Westin, adding that he’s not afflicted by “short man syndrome” — a short fuse stereotypically ascribed to the height-challenged male.
“People could be missing out on a life partner because of all these preconceived notions,” he said.
Cassandra agreed.
“There are tall women married to short men,” she chimed. “It’s not like, ‘OMG I just found a rare coin.’”
“Love is love no matter what,” said Westin.
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