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Leg lengthening surgery gone wrong.

259 replies

Thunderandlightningisfrightening · 17/07/2024 13:35

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13642509/High-flying-5ft-2in-banker-grew-5ft-6in-car-crash-leg-lengthening-surgery-left-one-limb-six-inches-longer-wins-payout-settles-1m-court-case-against-surgeon.html

Why would anyone do this?!?!?

5ft 2in banker settles £1m case against her leg-lengthening surgeon

Elaine Foo, (pictured with her legal team), sued her leg surgeon Dr Jean-Marc Guichet (pictured inset) over his alleged botched operation. She worked in London for Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13642509/High-flying-5ft-2in-banker-grew-5ft-6in-car-crash-leg-lengthening-surgery-left-one-limb-six-inches-longer-wins-payout-settles-1m-court-case-against-surgeon.html

OP posts:
LegendInMyOwnLunchtime · 18/07/2024 09:17

Differentstarts · 17/07/2024 18:27

I personally wouldn't, I didn't even know this was a thing. I'm the same height and it's never bothered me but I suppose if it really bothers someone then it's no different to having any other kind of cosmetic surgery

It is very different to other kinds of cosmetic surgery.

See my post of 22.27 yesterday.

In which I am actually quite sparse in the details of the procedure and many ramifications of the aftermath.

Benjilassi · 18/07/2024 08:48

Calliopespa · 17/07/2024 20:50

Isn’t it so people in the window seats can see how far away the drinks trolley is?

😂

NomenNudum · 18/07/2024 08:36

She would have done better to sue her workplace for fostering a hostile environment for women.

focacciamuffin · 18/07/2024 08:15

Dontevenlookatme · 18/07/2024 06:49

The average height for a woman includes all adult women, including the elderly. Women have got taller across all generations with better nutrition but currently it includes women born during wartime rationing.

Wartime rationing didn’t result in a nutritionally poor diet. It was probably better than it is now, particularly for children.

dottiedodah · 18/07/2024 07:43

At 5 feet and precisely nothing.I feel for this lady.However my cousin and my Nan were the same height as me (Mum slightly taller ).I have never really felt inadequate at all. BF all taller!

wherethewildthingis · 18/07/2024 07:31

I was offered this surgery for medical reasons as a teenager. I decided against it and instead had several inches cut from my longer, healthy leg. This has also had life long complications but I really had no choice.

I wouldn't consider messing about with bones for cosmetic reasons !

Feelsodrained · 18/07/2024 07:28

Dontevenlookatme · 18/07/2024 06:49

The average height for a woman includes all adult women, including the elderly. Women have got taller across all generations with better nutrition but currently it includes women born during wartime rationing.

Also my mum born in the early 50s has shrunk at least 2 inches from her tallest adult height since turning 65 so many elderly women were taller when they were younger.

Mumofspaceboy02 · 18/07/2024 07:13

Hmm I’m struggling not to agree with the dear in the article around the whole 16 cm difference when she stood up.

Dontevenlookatme · 18/07/2024 06:49

The average height for a woman includes all adult women, including the elderly. Women have got taller across all generations with better nutrition but currently it includes women born during wartime rationing.

Dontevenlookatme · 18/07/2024 06:44

CactusMactus · 17/07/2024 16:00

What kind of jobs? Like police officer?
I would never have considered my short-arsed-ness might hold me back professionally!

Cabin crew have to be over a certain height to manage the doors in an emergency.

Goldenbear · 18/07/2024 00:12

5ft 2 bit 5ft 3.

Goldenbear · 18/07/2024 00:11

amoreoamicizia · 17/07/2024 16:13

I often see the 5'2 figure quoted as average height but I'm sure it's well out of date these days. I'm 5'7 and feel average or a smidgen taller than average, young women in particular are usually my height or close. I certainly don't walk around feeling taller than most women.

Edited

I don’t think it is 5ft 3 in the UK, I qm
5ft 6, I do have Scandinavian heritage but it isn’t big for these countries, my friends all seemed the same height so I am surprised 5ft 2 is average in the UK. I have a tall Dad and short Mum so I ended up at a height in between!

MeouwCat · 18/07/2024 00:01

My mate is trans; 5ft 4in. As a guy, hated being 5 ft 4. The greatest asset when transitioning. As was shared up thread 5 ft 4, average height for a gal.

Haveanaiceday · 17/07/2024 23:58

5'2 used to be thought of as a nice height for a woman. 5'2 and eyes of blue as I sing to my dd who is is just that.

WhatsUpNowThen · 17/07/2024 23:56

I can hardly believe what i’ve read, it sounds like torture. To think that someone would undergo that for cosmetic reasons after being teased/bullied makes me so sad

I'm truly not being facetious, but I find it hard to believe that a woman would be teased/bullied for being a perfectly normal height. I'm the same height and whilst there are rare occasions when my lack of height cannot be ignored, I could easily find offence where none is intended. For example, standing with a group of men recently and being considerably shorter than any of them, a colleague suggested that we moved to another part of the room where there was a step I could stand on and therefore follow conversation more easily.
Was that teasing or bullying? I really don't think so. It was quite helpful.
Maybe if I had an obsession with wanting to be taller I might have been very upset and disturbed and felt othered and bullied. But I haven't. That wasn't my perception at all, although for others, it might be.

AllPrincessAnneshorses · 17/07/2024 23:47

BIWI · 17/07/2024 13:53

5ft 2in is shorter than average. The average height for women is 5ft 4in.

So? it's a tiny difference and with any average there's a range.

Fullfatandfortyplus · 17/07/2024 23:40

This is bonkers to me. I’m 5’0 and have never once wished to be a mm taller. Have absolutely loved being ‘small’ my whole life.

Towelmode · 17/07/2024 23:36

This comes under crazy surgery for me, so much potential to go wrong

BeachParty · 17/07/2024 23:29

The procedures involved sawing her thigh bones in half, hollowing out the marrow along a foot-long length inside each bone and inserting telescopic metal rods, held in place by pins

😭
As a fellow short arse, hell to the NO to that!
YANBU, embrace your smallness, that's just not worth it!
Totally unnecessary surgery is a fat nope for me

Blink282 · 17/07/2024 23:28

“The procedure involved Dr Guichet sawing Ms Foo's thigh bones in half, hollowing out the marrow and inserting a telescopic metal rod, held in place by pins.
The rods are designed to increase their length gradually by a ratchet mechanism, pulling the two cut halves of the bone gradually apart, with the healing bone filling the gap in between and increasing leg length.”

I can hardly believe what i’ve read, it sounds like torture. To think that someone would undergo that for cosmetic reasons after being teased/bullied makes me so sad. 😞

WhatsUpNowThen · 17/07/2024 23:25

And only 5' 1" but perfectly happy with the status quo. Teased sometimes for being small, but I quite like it tbh, except in theatres.

WhatsUpNowThen · 17/07/2024 23:21

I am vair softly spoken as it happens.

WhatsUpNowThen · 17/07/2024 23:19

That may not have been obvious, granted.

WhatsUpNowThen · 17/07/2024 23:18

WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING?

It wasn't me shouting. I was quoting somebody shouting. I was just
grinning. Perfectly quiet grinning.

Calliopespa · 17/07/2024 23:16

WhatsUpNowThen · 17/07/2024 22:58

SO GET YOUR LEGS BROKEN AND LENGTHENED IN A TOTES MEDIEVAL PROCEDURE IS THE OBVIOUS SOLUTION😀

WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING?