Cline platforms can only do so much: After years of poor posture, 5'2" writer Coco Myers learns she's coming up short. Here, her three-month guide to growing taller BY Coco Myers May 24, 2012 Related Links You have lousy posture," a guy I'd been dating tells me after we break up. The arrow strikes, and it hurts. Then, adding insult to injury, I get measured at a routine doctor's appointment, only to learn I've lost a quarter of an inch over the past few years. I can't be shrinking, according to the doc?I'm too healthy, so I must be slouching. And at 5'2", I can't afford to lose a millimeter. Suddenly I find myself obsessing over my posture?standing in line at H&M, sitting at my computer?and find that yes, the ex is right. I'm often rounded forward, scrunching. Not only am I shortening myself, I'm apparently shortchanging myself, according to psychologist Dana Carney, PhD, assistant professor of management at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Her research found that when people "expand to take up more space," such as when they stand up straight, they were perceived as being more powerful and secure compared with when they were slouching. The power posers also felt better too: Saliva samples taken after subjects were asked to straighten up revealed a rise in testosterone. Of course I want people, including men I might date, to view me as confident. I wonder, if I were to straighten up, might I not