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?!?!?

I worked in banking. Never once ever did anyone ever mention my height! I think I read that she went on to say it was one colleague. One swallow doesn’t make a summer…

I think that people can obsess over a physical characteristic and blame all their ills on it - boobs, bum, teeth, nose… even when to a neutral observer they look perfectly fine.

She should have asked to be posted to the Singapore office, she would have been average height there.

Probably should stay away from the Scandinavian countries, though I hear they're very nice places to live otherwise.

I guess for the same reason people have nose jobs, boob jobs…the list goes on. To give them confidence and a feeling of being ‘normal’. As a small person myself, it can be intimidating constantly having everyone literally looking down at you all the time, constantly struggling to get food shopping off the top shelves and also having to be super slim to prevent yourself from looking bigger than you actually are.

Can I say ‘Thank you’ as it’s helpful people like you that I need when I’m doing my Sainsbury’s shop 😊

It must be a bugger for the product placement people who put things at eye height to make you notice them.
Would be interesting to see their height versus demographic stats.

I'm less than five feet tall and leg lengthening surgery, even if it goes right, baffles me

If your legs are short, then your arms are also short

You're left with disproportionately long legs and little T-Rex arms

What do you do when you do get to that high shelf?

You still can't reach to the back of it

That's why people t-rex in supermarkets. Another Mumsnet question answered.

Probably what killed off the dinosaurs too.