He was about five foot seven inch tall, average height for the time period. During his early years he was quite skinny, and only after 1806 did he became corpulent. When he was young, he appeared to be ailing with a yellowish pallid skin. Thus very few people in his childhood envisioned him becoming a mighty leader with supreme power that we cognize today. Some Historians believed that his success in politics and military should be credited to his inferiority complex, which allowed short people like him to possess an over-aggressive behavior to compensate for lack of height. He also had a specific trait, shown in many of his portrait-wearing a large bicorne hat and with his left hand posed on his waistcoat. His eyes were said to be gray or gray-blue, deep and sharp with an expression that emitted great ambition.
