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DABB and Kelsey are content creators who met three years ago through their line of work. From then on, they started a friendship/business relationship, until feelings started to develop between the two - and they've been inseparable ever since. However, the couple are judged online because of their appearance. Kelsey was born with dwarfism and stands at just 3ft 11", and often has to deal with people calling her a 'little girl' or assuming she's 'incompetent'. Friends and family are very supportive of their relationship, but some have had their reservations in the past. Dabb and Kelsey are currently focusing on their content right now, but eventually want to have children in the future. There is a chance that the child could also have dwarfism, but they don’t let that faze them.
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Even though I have the height of a child
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I have woman features. So I have something called achondroplasia. It's the most common form of dwarfism
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People think I'm like incompetent. Before they even talk to me, it's very offending
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Today, our friend Solo is coming over to discuss our relationship. He has strong opinions, and he's not holding back
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Did you ever like imagine that being with a little person? I mean, under five, five, a little person
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and you just extra little soul. My height does hold me back in my everyday life
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Everything in my house is pretty tall. Dab often helps me get things I can't reach when I'm cooking
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For example, the bread, which I needed like two seconds ago. My name is Big K
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Health. My name is Cortavius Pate, but I go by Dab. My height is 3'11"
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My height is 6 feet. So I have something called achondroplasia. It's the most common form of dwarfism
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Even though I have the height of a child, I have woman features
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I think it's cute. I love it. Growing up, I did feel different in some ways
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I adapted well, but it was more so how people perceived me more than I perceived myself
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But in terms of now, you know, it's all good. We met on Instagram
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He had DM'd me, you know, the casual DM. You know, the casual slot DM
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Yeah. We were homies. Yeah, we really was. We was locked in like this
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And we, you know, decided that we were attracted to each other
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We've been together for two years. I've always dated men taller than me
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She like me tall. Yeah. I've never imagined dating anyone significantly shorter than me
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I see Kelsey as if she's tall. Kelsey acts like she six feet tall sometimes She do not act that height I hear someone laugh I automatically just assume Because it what people do when they see us They laugh so I be like
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A lot of people mess with her. People think I'm, like, incompetent
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Before they even talk to me, it's very offending, I would say
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People can impose. They can try and talk to them in front of me
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or try and disrespect me and feel easily about it because of the fact that I'm shorter
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They be following us around laughing at us. But us together, we're like a super power couple together
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A big thing people try and say is that this is not acceptable
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It's not acceptable for a little person. To be with a taller man due to them thinking I have childlike features
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Exactly. This is a grown woman next to me. Some people try and say that it would be bad for Dab to have a kid with me
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Oh, yeah. Because he is giving off Predator Bash. Yeah. Somebody said, this is so weird
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It has 6,000 likes. Somebody also said, that's a little girl. Are y'all gonna keep saying this grown woman is a little girl
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There's a huge one. Remember, dad and daughter combo. Oh, yeah. Dad and daughter
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Or the big one, keep him away from elementary schools, you know
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Yeah, don't take me a near elementary school. Didn't that one get like 5,000 likes, you know
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This is the uncle you don't let babysit your little niece. Maybe you should go figure that out with your family
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This has to be illegal, bro. What? How? Come on. I'm literally 22
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I'm over 21. She over 21. The fact that you sit on your phone and you think that and type that is kind of insane to me None of our friends or family were really concerned about our relationship other than our friend Daryl When dad first got with Kelsey it was just something different
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I'm used to seeing him with black females. We never met nobody short in life
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You know what I'm saying? In my head at the time, to be honest, I didn't think it was nothing like serious
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So what did you think when I first started dating Kelsey? Not your type, really
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okay so you was kind of like this is just something new yeah i mean because you know
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since i know you i just you know grew and knew what type of type of female you usually
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talk to so it was something different did you ever like imagine that being with a little person
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i mean under five five a little person but you just extra little so it wasn't nothing
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too crazy. So, man, be honest. Was you surprised by Kelsey Height
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When I first met her, yeah. He said a little person was coming over
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but, you know, seeing what he was believing at that time was crazy, I feel like
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What did you think when we first started dating for her? Nothing too crazy
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is something to get used to because, you know, like I said, he not, that's not something
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he usually get into, you feel me, but he committed, so it was just something
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to get used to, nothing too crazy. but I don't got no problem with something new, spectacular, you feel me
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And she cool, so. Is there anything like you think we could do better for a relationship
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Lots of... First, let's start a lot about, like, waking up earlier, but
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who sleeps till 2, 3 o'clock and stay up all night? It may not call me at 1 o'clock in the morning, y'all arguing
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Stop the arguing. But nothing too crazy. Typical relationship things that people got to build on
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You feel me? Nothing too crazy. They're perfect. I know we said everything but what you think about our relationship now I seen a lot of progression You know what I saying Still a little nitpicks You know what I saying Y can work on certain things but at the end of the day
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y'all stay motivated, stay in the mindset of doing better for y'allself
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Y'all will get what y'all need to go in life. It's now. Dav has changed my life for better in multiple ways
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He's my biggest supporter, so he's constantly urging me and challenging me
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to be a better me. I mean, like I never had a personality come into my life that's so small with such big personality
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I've achieved so much social media wise and I've got way bigger than what I ever thought I could achieve with Kelsey
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We want to accomplish any and everything like TV-wide. I think what he's trying to say is, okay, we, you know, eventually down the line, we've got kids and marriage
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Right now, we want to do as much as we can for ourselves so that we can have that later on
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We're some sort of best friends and we confide in each other. We tell each other everything and we try and be completely honest
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And when we do go through a hard time, I feel like we haven't given up yet
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And for those that got something to say about us and it's negative
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Negative? Zip it up. And throw it. Throw it away. Throw it away
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And step on it. Thank you
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