Leg lengthening is an intense and expensive process, but one that has become more popular and accepted in the last five years, a California surgeon says.
A 26-year-old man who had the procedure to increase his height from 5'7" to 5'10"explains what it was like.Uwa Ede-OsifoThe 26-year-old, who asked that his real name not be used to maintain his privacy, said he was sick of insults and jeering comments about his height.
“I even have 60-, 65-year-old guys that have come to me to undergo the procedure because it just doesn’t stop. The 'short' jokes keep going on and they feel inferior,” he said. The final step of the process is removing the rods. Alex returned for that hourlong procedure a year after the first surgery, and his insurance footed the $10,000 bill. In total, Alex estimated the whole process cost him around $100,000.
He said that only a small share of the surgeries he performs are aimed at increasing a patient's height, and those cases usually involve short stature dysphoria, a deep dissatisfaction with one's height. “I went to therapy regarding this to talk about body image issues, but then it always gets followed into, ‘Oh, you have body dysmorphia?’” he said. “It’s almost the opposite where I’m painfully aware of what the reality of my body is, and I wanted to change it.”“Body shaming is wrong, but there’s like a little asterisk of like, ‘unless you’re short,’” he said. “It seems like almost the one unchangeable trait that is just accepted as a societal punching bag.
“When it’s such an intense, persistent feeling that it impacts your daily functioning in daily life, it becomes an issue,” he said.examined the relationship between height and dating preferences among heterosexual people in the U.S., Canada, Cuba, and Norway. The results suggested that men preferred shorter women and women preferred taller men relative to both their own heights and the averages in their countries.
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