How tall was Gia Carangi?

Gia Carangi is commonly listed at 5 ft 8 in (173 cm).

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Gia Carangi’s 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) is very tall for a US woman: more than 95 in 100 US women are shorter.

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Gia Carangi beside others

Gia Carangi is one of the shorter models we have heights for: Yekaterina Lisina (6 ft 8.5 in) stands 1 ft 0.5 in (32 cm) taller and Demi Rose (5 ft 2 in) is 6.5 in (16 cm) shorter.

Also listed at 5 ft 8 in: Amber Rose, Suki Waterhouse and Kelsey Merritt.

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Where this height comes from

5 ft 8 in (173 cm)

A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.

Photo: Francesco Scavullo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Gia Carangi, 5 ft 8 in (173 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)