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?!?!?

LOL.
I don't mean to sound like a know it all but as it happens I did work in finance and am now a software engineer (well more of a technical leader but I'm quite hands on).
Not a problem. Actually my height gives me more leeway to push to the front over everyone else.

I don't deny that being a technical woman is hard, of course I've faced other issues ... but not this. I was the youngest and only woman at my rank in a job where my peers had at least 10 years more experience than me a few years ago... The stories I could tell.

This woman is similar.She claimed to have a bad experience at Merrill Lynch. But joined as a senior leader.

She doesn't have to justify her leg lengthening choice to anybody else. Maybe she just said it to you know, make It seem like she didn't do it for 'frivolous' reasons.

With the level of politics ,power grabbing, hidden agendas going on at that level ... I can well believe she was bullied yes but I doubt that her height had much to do with it. More like somebody else wanted her job. Or the higher ups and others didn't like her. Maybe she projected all her issues onto her height when that's just the way big companies work.

Can’t you buy girls clothing? Or is it the waists?

As a 5ft 2 woman I can't get my head around this. I know she says she'd been bullied but I doubt that was because if her hight. I've never felt I'm unusually small...am I??

This! All about proportions. I’m 5ft 2 but need regular leg length. As my legs are the same length if not longer than my 5ft 5 sisters. I’m bizarrely all leg with a very short torso, so sometimes things just don’t fit right. Even if they are petite or short leg.

I am five foot nothing, it hasn’t stopped me doing anything I wanted.A career, children, finding love.
I think people who imagine horrendous risky surgery will make them happy need therapy not medical intervention.
Oh and short people can ride ponies when they’re adults.

My DD works in paediatric othopedics and is disgusted this woman was allowed to have the operation!

Because designs across the world are usually biased to a man’s frame. (www.amazon.co.uk/Invisible-Women-Exposing-World-Designed/dp/1784741728)

Does seem an odd thing to do - I can kind of understand men going through with it (although it shouldn't feel necessary for anyone) as there is so much bullshit for men about being 'short' and it could affect your chances in relationships or at work because people are arseholes.

I'm 5ft 1, but honestly I totally forget I am short at all until I'm in a thick crowd of people. I've never felt bullied about my height and see plenty of women of a similar height to me around so I don't feel like I'm unsually short.

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

5’2 is short but I can’t imagine it being short enough to want to consider surgery.

My daughter was the smallest child in the school for the first three years she was there. When she left primary school she was just about the same height as most of the children going into key stage two. However, once she had her growth spurt in puberty, she grew to her adult height of 5’1” - still shorter than average but not outstandingly so. She is petite, in proportion and takes size 2 shoes, which is more of a problem when looking for adult style shoes. It never entered our heads at any point that growth surgery might be an idea and would have considered it quite unnecessary. A woman of 5’2” is only very slightly shorter than average. Any problems she had were nothing to do with her height and the surgeon should never have agreed to the operation in the first place. Counselling would have been a much better idea.

Those who struggle to find trousers the right length, have you tried Next or (whisper it) Bon Marche? I’m just under 5ft and tend to have the best luck there.

im 5 foot rarely fin trousers that fit

woulnt go that far

@Cattenberg (whispers) yes, I have found Bon Marche. Funnily enough I was talking to someone last week who almost hissed that they had on Bon Marche leggings…

What confuses me is that it lengthens the thigh bone- surely if your thighs suddenly get 4 inches longer you’re going to have disproportionate legs and weirdly low knees? It must feel so weird to walk and balance

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I'm 4'10 and if surgery to make you taller didn't sound so horrific, lengthy - pardon the pun - and likely to go wrong , I'd definitely consider saving up for it

...although I'd be over the moon to be 5' anything! 😄

I am short of arse and this is what puts me off - aside from the cost, the agonising pain and risk of permanent disability, of course.

Surely you'd look terribly unbalanced with Amazonian legs (well, compartively) and a wee torso and comically short arms? How would you reach your shoes to tie your laces when you bend over?

yeh, that's a good point, your balance would be challenged. You know in pilates class, when you do certain moves off balance, with one foot on the ball for example, it really challenges your balance. I have wobbled about. It'd be like learning to walk again (I imagine).

To be taller because it bothers them the same as women get boob jobs or lipo or facelifts

That's one AMA we haven't seen yet!

I had my legs lengthened, AMA!

Having your femurs broken and stretched was never going to be a walk in the park was it!

Not for several months at least.

im 5’. I’ve never been bullied about my height. At school I was bullied but not over that. I would love to be taller . As others have said even petite clothes are usually too long in the length, sleeves, shoulders too wide etc. But undergoing such agonising surgery for a few more inches she must have been in a dreadful state of mind over it.

A few more inches indeed, easily achieved with heels.
If she'd suddenly become 5'6 at least, it may have been worth it