A fashion model with the Eileen Ford Agency, despite her 5-foot-4-inch height.- Chicago Tribune, 1985
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Melanie's 5'9". I'm only 5'4"- People Magazine, 1997
It just makes me so mad I'm only 5ft 1 [1.6m]. I started modelling when I was a teenager. I always wished I was taller. I still wish was taller. In my mind I'm 5ft 8. It never stopped me. Even when I'm talking with people - if I'm standing next to a man who is 6ft 2, I feel like I'm on eye-level with him. There's something very wrong with me.
New Zealand Herald
[Eileen Ford doesn't like] to hire anyone under 5 foot 7, and if I stretch real high I'm 5 foor 4, and so when she turns down models because they're too short, they always say, 'Well, what about Tippi Hedren?'
-- 1987
