I have been working with lifestyle topics for a long time, I have seen various trends, but this industry is simply a standard of modern absurdity, informs Ukr.Media.
The guy is 38 years old. His height is 170 cm. A normal figure, but he considers himself short. What does he do? He takes the $32,000 that he and his wife were saving for a down payment on a mortgage, flies to Istanbul, and asks them to break his legs. Literally.
This is not a metaphor. You break both of your femurs. They put metal pins in. Then every day you take a wrench and unscrew those pins right inside you. Muscles stretch, tendons snap. The gap between the bones slowly fills with new tissue. The pain is so bad that grown men lose consciousness and have to learn to walk again.
Our hero, Frank, was working out five times a day instead of the allowed four. He wanted to squeeze out the maximum. He has a tattoo of Schwarzenegger on his thigh. Because his leg was growing, Arnie's face stretched into an oval. Ironically.
Do you think he's the only one who's crazy? I look at the statistics: Turkish clinics are full of men. Even those who are 180 cm tall come to add a couple of centimeters because they think their legs are crooked. By 2030, the limb lengthening market will swell to 8.6 billion dollars.
Male vanity is breaking all records now. Guys have started spending more on cosmetology than women. Doctors are already openly calling Botox injections for men “brotox” among themselves. Dating apps have introduced filters based on height – and many people have lost their minds. 190 cm has suddenly become the standard, and if you're shorter – you're just swiped left. Is that harsh? Yes. But getting put under a circular saw because of Tinder's algorithms is a special kind of masochism.
Clinics, of course, sell it as a simple aesthetic. The real consequences are thrombosis, damaged joints, chronic pain and “ballerina syndrome”, when the tendons do not stretch, the foot bends, and you simply cannot step on your heel. Last year, a patient from Saudi Arabia died of a blood clot 16 days after the operation.
Frank was almost put in a black bag too. In the middle of the night he started suffocating – a pulmonary embolism. But you know what? Even as he was suffocating in the hospital bed, he continued to turn the wrench in his legs.
Doctors eventually forced him to stop. His nerves couldn't handle the strain, and his legs stopped straightening. He grew 7.3 cm instead of the planned nine.
The result? No mortgage. His lungs barely survived the blood clot. But now, as Frank himself says with great joy, his wife is a couple of centimeters shorter than him, and he can finally look at others from the height of his long-suffering 177 centimeters.
Everyone decides for themselves where to spend their money. But the fact remains: a man's ego is expensive today, and it hurts even more.
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