Love Lifts Her Up! Loren's Big Roman
Woman’s Day Magazine NZ|24 July 2017

Height is no obstacle for this couple

Love Lifts Her Up! Loren's Big Roman

Not long ago, Loren Savage stood on her bed and gave her strapping new husband Mark a hug. “My head was up to his chest, but it felt like we were the same height,” she smiles.

“I said, ‘Do you wish I was this tall?’ and he said, ‘No, you take up enough room in the bed!’”

Loren and Mark met four years ago. They married last April in front of 90 family and friends at Te Puna Quarry Gardens in the foothills of the Kaimai Ranges in the Bay of Plenty.

“I always thought, ‘Imagine finding someone brave enough to marry me,’” laughs Loren, 25, who works in a communications and administration role in the Ministry of Social Development’s Hamilton office.

“I tell people I only married Mark so he could help me get things off the top shelf at the supermarket and I even referred to him in my wedding speech as ‘conveniently tall’!”

“It’s something we joke about,” adds Mark. “I love the humour Loren brings into our relationship.”

Mark, a 24-year-old web developer, is a towering 1.88 metres, while Loren is 1.32m.

Despite having average height parents and an average height big sister, Loren was born with one of the most common forms of dwarfism, achondroplasia. The gene mutation can be inherited from one or both parents, or spontaneous, as it was for Loren.

“Yes, I have a disability, but I don’t think it disables me and I’m not defined by it,” she declares. “I see it as a gift. I’ve had opportunities in my life and met people along the way I wouldn’t have if I had been born average height.”

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة 24 July 2017 من Woman’s Day Magazine NZ.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة 24 July 2017 من Woman’s Day Magazine NZ.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

المزيد من القصص من WOMAN’S DAY MAGAZINE NZ مشاهدة الكل
TREASURE & TRAUMA
Woman’s Day Magazine New Zealand

TREASURE & TRAUMA

The launch of the new season of Celebrity Treasure Island doubled as an eighth wedding anniversary celebration for contestant Millen Baird and his wife Siobhan Marshall, who came fourth on the show back in 2022.

time-read
1 min  |
August 31, 2024
JUDGE JAY-JAY
Woman’s Day Magazine New Zealand

JUDGE JAY-JAY

Radio diva Jay-Jay Feeney delivers her verdict on your biggest dilemmas

time-read
2 mins  |
August 31, 2024
CASEY'S BABY JOY 'OUR GIRL IS ALREADY SO LOVED'
Woman’s Day Magazine New Zealand

CASEY'S BABY JOY 'OUR GIRL IS ALREADY SO LOVED'

The Te Puke gym owner refused to let a devastating accident stop her from becoming a mother

time-read
3 mins  |
August 31, 2024
DEAD FUNNY! SHOSHANA'S GOING SOLO
Woman’s Day Magazine New Zealand

DEAD FUNNY! SHOSHANA'S GOING SOLO

The Emmy Award-winning writer is starring in a macabre new comedy

time-read
3 mins  |
August 31, 2024
TWO RAW SISTERS BABY MAKES THREE!
Woman’s Day Magazine New Zealand

TWO RAW SISTERS BABY MAKES THREE!

Rosa and Margo have a new cookbook and bundle of joy on the way

time-read
3 mins  |
August 31, 2024
HOME AND AWAY'S NEW MÃORI STAR
Woman’s Day Magazine New Zealand

HOME AND AWAY'S NEW MÃORI STAR

The son of a Kiwi sporting Legend, Cantona Stewart is making waves in Summer Bay

time-read
2 mins  |
August 31, 2024
TV STAR AIDEE 'THE NIGHT I ALMOST DIED'
Woman’s Day Magazine New Zealand

TV STAR AIDEE 'THE NIGHT I ALMOST DIED'

The actress and director opens up about her terrifying ordeal

time-read
3 mins  |
August 31, 2024
CARMEL SEPULONI  I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A FIGHTER!
Woman’s Day Magazine New Zealand

CARMEL SEPULONI I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A FIGHTER!

Our former deputy PM the lessons she's learnt in politics on CTI

time-read
3 mins  |
August 31, 2024
KENNEDY & SOLLY'S ROMANTIC RACE TO THE ALTAR
Woman’s Day Magazine New Zealand

KENNEDY & SOLLY'S ROMANTIC RACE TO THE ALTAR

The Black Ferns co-captain and her rugby star husband organised the ir nuptials in just five days!

time-read
5 mins  |
August 31, 2024
THE BRAD & GEORGE SHOW is back!
Woman’s Day Magazine New Zealand

THE BRAD & GEORGE SHOW is back!

Their lovable bromance is stealing the spotlight in Venice!

time-read
1 min  |
August 31, 2024