“Since I was little, I’ve been grown up. Thus begins this sound unit as instructive as it is oddly well conducted. After studying literature, theater and cinema, Jeanne Paravert has, we are told, “zigzagged for a few years between different audiovisual professions” (assistant director, radio at France Inter and TV journalist), before co-founding Jack
But let’s resume. Nicknamed alternately “giraffe” and “big sausage”, Jeanne Paravert has always tended to lie a little when asked about her height. Moreover, it is time to disclose the figure of this “involuntary overhang” which, for a long time, handicapped the young woman: 1.85 meters, or 21 centimeters more than the French average (1.64 meters), distinguishing herself enough to be part, according to Inserm, of the 2% to 3% of women who exceed 1.77 meters.
Determined to no longer allow herself to be reduced to extraordinary and certainly staggering figures, Jeanne Paravert had the idea of making this cumbersome self a podcast worthy of her complexes and those of her colleagues. In Lifesize, then, she went to interview women who, like her, are “above.” And which tell: the remarks, the nicknames, the humiliations.
“I felt like a bullshit”
For the sociologist Marie Buscatto (1.88 meters and author of La Very Large Size for Women, CNRS Editions, 2022), if the female model is an object of desire, the fact remains that men prefer her daily “small, easy, discreet” women. Emma Broughton (aka Blumi, who is also composing the music for this podcast) readily admits, “The size really pissed me off with guys. I felt like a bullshit. »
Interestingly, one says, “Dating shorter guys is protecting me from basic heterosexuality.” It changes the dynamic: it’s a good guy filter. Except, she adds, and it’s not lacking in salt: “Downside to the Sarkozy effect: complexed guys who take it as a challenge. »
Moreover, Jeanne Paravert went to listen to short men and, there too, it is interesting to hear all that height carries with it complexes and misunderstandings. She also – guest-star bonus – interviewed Sandrine Kiberlain who recounts the first humiliation when she is told that everything in her house is too big. But it would be a shame to divulge. You have to listen to this funny story. And to think that, definitely: “Giraffes have always had something extra. »
