Leg lengthening surgery gone wrong.

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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?!?!?

Her shoes look identical. Usually if peoples legs are different lengths they wear special shoes to compensate for the difference.

Her legs are fixed now.

But it is in the normal range.

I'm 5'3" but with long legs so I can often wear regular length trousers. I think adding inches to your legs would just make you look hugely disproportionate. You'd have 34in legs on this tiny body 😂. That would make you over 50% leg...

I’m 5”10 and was bullied relentlessly for my height at my Scottish secondary school and I think I’ll always feel unfeminine because of it (combined with little boobs). But I do love being able to load my roofbox and helping get things down from top shelves for people.

I remember seeing a documentary years ago where some Scandinavian women were having vertebrae removed to reduce their height - I kid you not!!! I won’t be doing that.

I disagree. I’m 5’1 and occasionally it’s difficult to reach things in shops bit apart from that it’s an advantage because I have more leg room and more space generally. I’ve stayed in Airbnb’s with very low ceilings and I always think it must be really odd and unpleasant for tall people. Like Alice🤣

Surely not as painful as the surgery 🥹

Oh crikey, is this a thing?

it sounds medieval

im 5ft1 but would never ever consider this

Hmm, I’m 5ft 2 and worked in banking, I can imagine why she wanted to do this, and as she clearly had the money why not. I worked on a trading floor at another American bank and wore sky high heels as a defence mechanism as I frequently felt physically lesser than the majority male colleagues. Wouldn’t need to do that in my 50s as I’m more assertive and confident in my skin but those were challenging places to work at times for me as a slight young woman in the early 00s!! Which seems crazy to say with the benefit of hindsight but it was
a different time.

Having leg-lengthening surgery when you are an inch or two off average height is absolute nuts. Especially when, as people have said, it's not even particularly short for her ethnicity.

I mean people love telling me I'm tiny but wtf🙅

I don't like yogurt but I don't diss those that do. It's about choice.
The procedure btw is standard, although tricky and used relatively frequently in orthopaedic corrective surgery.
Wouldn't be my idea of spending money well, but neither is going to Mars..
Each to their own.

I disagree as condoning this is sending a very dangerous message. It says there’s something wrong with being petite, that unnecessary (highly risky and painful) surgery is okay and it discourages seeking mental help. Our modern attitude of each to their own has had dreadful consequences to society as a whole. Not one of us is a silo.

It also sends the message that the correct response to workplace harassment is undergoing a lengthy and painful set of operations rather than getting the fuckers fired.

I know someone who had it done years ago. It is a terribly painful operation and she was in a wheelchair for a good while after. Her body now looks out of proportion as her legs look too long for her torso and she walks with a noticeable limp. I agree that it is a surgery too far

I'm 6ft, snd my 11 year old daughter is 5'5". In my opinion it's far harder to be a tall woman in the UK than a short. Clothes too short in arm,leg and torso, limited dating pool, and generally feeling less feminine than my shorter sisters. No guy is going to put me on his shoulders at a concert (not that I'd want that.

I think its hard to be an outlier at either end of the scale
I guess there are pros and cons to being much taller than average and being much smaller than average.

I'd love to be as tall as 5'2" but I wouldn't like to be 6ft. You would probably prefer to be shorter but not under 5ft! The average people don't know how lucky they are! 😃

I think it depends on perception. I grew very fast to the astonnishing height of 5.4. I was 12 then. Everybody called me the tall one, and I didn't like that because I never liked to stand out. but then I suddenly stopped growing. I'm still 5.4 with husband and son very tall (6.3 and 6.2) and they're always joking around me like "let me reach into the cupboard for you" or "shall I get you a ladder". I don't mind at all, it's always said very lovingly. I prefer this over being called the tall one in malice in my youth.

It is a significant operation and I cannot imagine why anyone would undergo it for reasons of vanity.

DH was born with one leg 2 inches longer than the other, he was offered this operation and refused it when he found out what was involved.

@TonTonMacoute interesting username.

Yes a not uncommon orthopaedic procedure .

But ‘tricky’ is a huge understatement IMO and IME having supported my Dc through it twice. Really painful. Months on painkillers including pain modification drugs and opioids / morphine based medication that takes careful withdrawal, months of compromised mobility, wheelchair, crutches. Scarring. Muscle wasting.

And while I’m on the subject people who have this done for medical reasons often need other support such as specialist footwear, a knee length splint, etc

All Of which illicit staring and stupid ‘witty’ comments from the public, if not bullying. Try being a teen with a shoe raise of several inches.

Try needing adapted shoes when MN is littered with horror about any slightly chunky shoes as ‘ORTHOPAEDIC’ .

And maybe stop it.

And back to your post specifically, @Ukrainebaby23 , minimising it as a standard sort of choice does in effect condone a decision that a normal human height is an issue and it’s no big deal to change it. A choice like a yogurt flavour… no, it really isn’t.

Try explaining it to the bankers who bullied her on a regular basis.

The banker bullies would have found something else to bully her for if not her height.

I worked in the city too years ago, the men were awful for sure, but how did she get enough time off to recover,,? Did she go back to her job? Was it held open for her?

Short women are often infantalised. The world isn't set up for short people either. I wouldn't have the surgery but I understand why some would.