- In mid-October 2015, There was a picture of the then France’s President Francois Hollande, posing next to a tall model doing rounds on social media.
- Kenyans are poked fun at the vertically-challenged president, saying the model makes him look like a dwarf!
However, Hollande was not the first president to be mocked over his height. His predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy was notoriously sensitive and insecure about his height, and went to great lengths to disguise his small stature.
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