This is a pretty extreme way to gain confidence.
Some short men are so insecure about their height that they're quite literally allowing doctors to break their bones during surgical leg-lengthening procedures., the excruciating surgery can involve a year of "relentless, ambient" pain during healing — though the orthopedic surgeons who do the leg-lengthening often give their patients pain medicine, per a man who got it done, which raises its own questions about medical ethics.
"They fill you with enough painkillers that it’s bearable," said John Lovedale, a man in his mid-40s described by the magazine as being "built like a saguaro cactus" and looking something like "a brolic Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Described as a handsome and successful father of three, the cosmetic leg lengthening surgery recipient said that although he was not far from the average American male height of five-foot-nine, he was still striving to be above average. "I noticed that taller people just seem to have it easier," Lovedale said, reportedly while laughing. "The world seems to bend for them."found that men tend to make about $500 less annually for every inch shorter they are than their taller counterparts.