A man who was unhappy with his 6-foot body spent more than $100,000 on Turkish leg-lengthening surgery to increase his height by 7 inches.
“I realized that my legs were always looking weird, and I didn’t know what it was,” Brian Sanchez, a 33-year-old mortgage dealer, told The Sun.
The married father of two “realized my legs were too short for my body” after sitting next to his considerably taller brother-in-law. “I’m broad, with long arms and wide shoulders, but my short legs make me stand out,” he added.
A man who spent $100,000 on agonizing leg-lengthening surgery to increase his height by 7 inches says he regrets it.
“I almost look like a huge thumb, like one of those thumb men from ‘Spy Kids.'”
Sanchez claims he went online to research leg-lengthening procedures and discovered the Live Life Taller clinic in Turkey, which has performed over 4,400 such procedures and is staffed by physiotherapists and health advisers who have had the extension surgery themselves, according to its website.
Sanchez’s family was in “disbelief,” he claimed, “but they also said that it is typical of me.”
“I know this is a crazy thing to do; it’s extremely expensive, time-consuming, difficult, painful, and even risky in some ways,” he admitted.
A man who spent $100,000 on agonizing leg-lengthening surgery to increase his height by 7 inches says he regrets it.
Sanchez estimates that he will spend around $37,000 for his first leg operation in December 2022.
“They broke my tibia and fibula and hollowed out the inside of my tibia, taking out the bone marrow,” he explained to The Sun.
“They then put a rod inside the bone and fastened it with screws, and they attached the bone segments via pins to external fixators, so you have this piece of steel on the outside of your legs and these constant open wounds that won’t close until you remove all the hardware.”
A man who spent $100,000 on agonizing leg-lengthening surgery to increase his height by 7 inches says he regrets it.
Sanchez had to use an Allen wrench once a day for two months to spin the fixator bolt, but he believes the most difficult aspect of his recovery was not sleeping.
He acknowledges that he was unprepared for how painful the surgeries were.
“I think the pain will be worth it — once it’s all finished, I’ll just be able to enjoy being taller, and hopefully feel on top of the world,” Sanchez said, adding that he had grown around 3 inches since February.
He spent another $69,587 in March for the second surgery to lengthen his femurs, and he “felt great” afterwards.
“There was almost no pain throughout the entire process, only from the lengthening caused by actually stretching my legs.”
Sanchez, who is currently in a wheelchair while recovering, has grown 7 inches in height but hopes to remain grounded.
“I don’t want to be disappointed, but it’s difficult to imagine not enjoying it,” he told The Sun.
“From the few times I’ve stood up, it’s strange to see people my height come up to under my nose — it’s really strange, and it’s a lot of fun just seeing the world from a slightly different perspective.”
Another man, Moses Gibson, a 5-foot-5 41-year-old from Minnesota, USA, paid $75,000 in 2016 to add 3 inches to his height. He spent another $98,000 in March to add another 2.
While Theresia Fischer, 31, a German model, paid almost $124,000 for two procedures to add 5 and a half inches to her physique, making her 6 feet tall barefoot.
