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"I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall"

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Power move disguised as wardrobe trivia. Donna Mills frames the stunt in the breeziest possible terms - "I always" makes it sound like habit, not strategy - but the engine underneath is competition in a medium where centimeters translate into status. On a TV set, height is never just height: it is who gets framed as commanding, who reads as romantic, who visually dominates a scene without saying a word. Mills is admitting she played that game deliberately, in the most literal way.

The line also exposes how female ensembles are often staged like a silent pageant. "The other women on the show were tall" sounds like a neutral fact, but it carries the subtext of constant comparison: your body is a variable to be managed relative to other women's bodies. Heels become less about glamour than about refusing to be visually subordinated. It's a small, almost comic image - an actress teetering upward to keep pace - that hints at the larger, less funny truth of the industry: women are cast not only as characters but as measurements.

There's a quiet professionalism in it, too. Mills isn't complaining; she's reporting an adjustment, like hitting your mark or finding your light. That calmness is part of why it lands. It normalizes the absurdity of having to engineer your own presence in a frame designed to rank you. The intent is practical; the context is show-business hierarchy; the subtext is survival.

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Donna Mills (born December 11, 1942) is a Actress from USA.

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