The actress who doesn't care about the Hollywood fashion that requests women to be as thin as possible has, apparently, a problem though: she is being paranoid about her height.

At least that's what she confessed, speaking to the New York Post:
"One time I was in a ladies room. In the stall. And two women were talking at the sink.
One said: "'Is that Scarlett Johansson? Oh my God, she's so short!"
I began to get a complex. Because I was also in a restaurant in New York and a waiter said how short I was.
I told him: 'Good things come in small packages.'"

Well, if she ever worries too much about her height (5' 4'' or 1.63m), Scarlet may at any time apply her red lipstick.
The 'Lost in Translation' star has recently confessed that, whenever she's feeling lost in sadness, she uses a trick that proved efficient so far.
"If I am feeling glum... I like to apply red lipstick; then, for the whole day I feel better," she revealed.





Dear Scarlett, it's not so much that people think you are short by comparing with some "normal" height, it's people comparing your height with the expected height they had in mind. It's due to movies/TV and magazines showing all the celebrities to be of the same height, or just about. And since there is no way to tell how tall people are on screen, most people (me included) expect all the actors to be six feet tall or just about, and actresses to be five feet ten (half a face shorter than the "expected" male height) or just about. There is also the factor of people projecting the 'height' in social status with the expectation of a corresponding physical height, therefore people expect a celebrity to be most likely taller than them even though it does not make sense. So anytime you hear "she's so short...", there is the unspoken part of "compared with what I imagined by celebrity stereotype", rather than "compared to some 'standard' height".