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Man gets surgery to grow 6-inches New York Man 'Grows' Six Inches Through Surgery By DENISE MARTINEZ-RAMUNDO and BILL RITTER | ABC News – Thu, Feb 23, 2012At five foot, six inches, Apotheosis was shorter than the average American male and very unhappy about it.
So he did something other men who feel short might consider unthinkable: he opted for costly, painful surgeries to make himself "grow" a total of six inches.
"I realized that the world looked at me a certain way that I didn't look at myself in that certain way," said the 37-year-old New Yorker, who goes by the pseudonym "Apotheosis" in online forums and asked that "20/20" not use his real name. "I wanted the way I felt about myself and the way the world felt about me to be similar."
Apotheosis is one of a "growing" number of men pursuing limb-lengthening procedures for cosmetic reasons.
Dr. Dror Paley, a renowned osteopathic surgeon at the Paley Institute at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., performed 650 leg-lengthening surgeries last year.
Most of Paley's patients have severe deformities or dwarfism, but he also sees cosmetic patients. "The majority who come for cosmetic limb lengthening have what we call, height dysphoria. They're unhappy with their height," said Paley, adding that therapy has little effect on changing a patient's views. "It's one of the few psychologic-psychiatric disorders that you can actually cure with the knife."
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At about $85,000, the procedure is expensive and the process lengthy. It takes at least three months to complete it and it requires demanding and excruciating physical therapy.
Apotheosis is still in recovery and he does not want to go public even though this is his second surgery. "I am still lengthening right now and there could be further complications and I don't want to talk about it successfully until it's been successful."
But he is candid about his leg lengthening journey on www.makemetaller.org, an online forum for people interested in the procedure.
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I've heard of this procedure being performed on people with dwarfism (is that the correct term?)...but to have it done because you want to be 6-ft tall???
I'm just over 5'-6" (so I round it out to 5'-7" on paper
I'd take that $85,000 and buy my sportscar instead.
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) and yeah, I'd love to be 6-ft tall..but that's why God invented shoe lift inserts and Cuban heels. I don't know that I could go thru with this even if I was a "little person".
Don't all men want to grow 6 inches?
Oh, wait...you mean in HEIGHT.
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Down here, the guys buy big powerboats or as the girls call them, "Penis extenders". | |
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Won't his upper and lower body be out of porportion? | |
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Sorry...here's the pic;
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That's the same guy? Some of his porpotions are different, he did a whole lotta other things too. | |
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This cannot possibly be healthy. | |
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I've seen documentaries about this kind of surgery: | |
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allaway down to his toes and skin color i am KING BAD!!!
you are NOT... 
STOP ME IF YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE... | |
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That was my exact thought... | |
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Blackface in 2012 | |
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Holy shit, that is an impressive difference. | |
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Oh yeah, you get one;
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I actually very much prefer a man of five foot six inches to one who is 6 inches taller. But I know that I am an exception when it comes to that With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A.... | |
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With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A.... | |
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By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A.... | |
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I think alot of that is weight loss. He's thinner through his torso and his thighs. It'll definitely add to the illusion of height. | |
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I want to be taller to!!
i'm only 6'5 Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
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They have to break your legs and then insert these pin like things in your bones with this big ass metal thing around it to help extend it every few weeks or something like that. surviving on the thought of loving you, it's just like the water
I ain't felt this way in years... | |
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i just got one of purplejedis famous slaps Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
All music is shit music and no music is real- gunsnhalen Datdonkeydick- Asherfierce Gary Hunts Album Isn't That Good- Soulalive | |
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Yeah, and since you're so f*ckin' tall, you get a second helping;
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i'm flattered
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