Emma Cahill is Britain’s tallest schoolgirl, measuring 6ft 5ins and she is still growing.

The 16-year-old has just started sixth form at St Mary’s Convent School in Worcester. She is the star player on the netball team but needs shoes specially designed to fit her size 14 feet, while she also had to have her new uniform tailored to fit her 36in legs. But she says she wants to get even taller despite being bullied over her size.

Her father Andrew, 45, is 6ft 6ins while her mother Jane is 5ft 11in.

“I am really proud to be the tallest schoolgirl in Britain. I like being a bit different but I reckon I’m still growing,” she said.

”I’d like to grow an extra inch to catch up with my dad.

”I have been bullied but I try not to think about it. People call me names, laugh at me. Sometimes people do things they wouldn’t do to a short person but I just laugh it off.”

Mr Cahill, who runs a software company in Droitwich Spa, Worcs., said: ”Emma was always a big child but in the last few years she’s shot up.

”We keep joking we’ll have to buy a bigger house so we can all fit in it.

”She was born a normal size but genetics must have kicked in. My parents and my wife’s parents were tall so she must have got her height from there.”

Despite wanting to get taller, she does admit that being tall has disadvantages. She has to get her clothes made in Germany and America, while she added that it was affecting her love life.

“I haven’t got a boyfriend at the moment. I think I scare them off with my height.

”I’ll probably always be bigger than anyone I go out with but I’ll still wear heels – I’m proud to be tall.”

Despite her mother suggesting she become a catwalk model, Emma says she wants to study to become an occupational therapist.

Louise Ross, from the Tall Persons Club, said: ”Emma should enjoy being the tallest teenage girl in the country. Women like her are the future and she should be proud and never stoop.

”Around 98 per cent of tall people are bullied but the trick is to literally rise above it.”

The world’s tallest teenager is 17-year-old American Brandon Adams who stands at 7ft four-and-a-half inches.