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Thread started 02/24/12 11:28am

PurpleJedi

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Man gets surgery to grow 6-inches

New York Man 'Grows' Six Inches Through Surgery

At 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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Reply #1 posted 02/24/12 11:33am

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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???

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I'm just over 5'-6" (so I round it out to 5'-7" on paper razz) 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".

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I'd take that $85,000 and buy my sportscar instead.

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Reply #2 posted 02/24/12 11:33am

RodeoSchro

Don't all men want to grow 6 inches?

Oh, wait...you mean in HEIGHT.

Never mind.

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Reply #3 posted 02/24/12 11:33am

RodeoSchro

PurpleJedi said:

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???

disbelief

I'm just over 5'-6" (so I round it out to 5'-7" on paper razz) 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".

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I'd take that $85,000 and buy my sportscar instead.

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Reply #4 posted 02/24/12 11:34am

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RodeoSchro said:

Don't all men want to grow 6 inches?

Oh, wait...you mean in HEIGHT.

Never mind.

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Reply #5 posted 02/24/12 11:35am

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Won't his upper and lower body be out of porportion?

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Reply #6 posted 02/24/12 11:43am

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Graycap23 said:

Won't his upper and lower body be out of porportion?

Sorry...here's the pic;

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Reply #7 posted 02/24/12 11:56am

morningsong

PurpleJedi said:

Graycap23 said:

Won't his upper and lower body be out of porportion?

Sorry...here's the pic;

That's the same guy? Some of his porpotions are different, he did a whole lotta other things too.

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Reply #8 posted 02/24/12 12:17pm

Timmy84

neutral

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Reply #9 posted 02/24/12 12:18pm

Graycap23

Timmy84 said:

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This cannot possibly be healthy.

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Reply #10 posted 02/24/12 12:21pm

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I've seen documentaries about this kind of surgery: disbelief What they have to put themselves through physically is akin to military-come-Sadist torture. Sorry, but no bueno. Find a chick the size of Jada Pinkett and keep it moving bored2

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Reply #11 posted 02/24/12 12:24pm

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morningsong said:

PurpleJedi said:

Sorry...here's the pic;

That's the same guy? Some of his porpotions are different, he did a whole lotta other things too.

allaway down to his toes and skin color lol

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Reply #12 posted 02/24/12 12:25pm

Timmy84

Graycap23 said:

Timmy84 said:

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This cannot possibly be healthy.

That was my exact thought...

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Reply #13 posted 02/24/12 12:49pm

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PurpleJedi said:

Blackface in 2012 disbelief

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Reply #14 posted 02/24/12 12:54pm

JustErin

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Holy shit, that is an impressive difference.
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Reply #15 posted 02/24/12 12:54pm

Timmy84

PANDURITO said:

PurpleJedi said:

Blackface in 2012 disbelief

lol

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Reply #16 posted 02/24/12 1:27pm

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PANDURITO said:

Blackface in 2012 disbelief

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Reply #17 posted 03/05/12 6:31am

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PANDURITO said:

PurpleJedi said:

Blackface in 2012 disbelief

Oh yeah, you get one;

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Reply #18 posted 03/05/12 6:59am

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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 lol.

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Reply #19 posted 03/05/12 7:01am

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Timmy84 said:

Graycap23 said:

This cannot possibly be healthy.

That was my exact thought...

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Reply #20 posted 03/05/12 10:48am

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Serious said:


disbelief

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 lol.

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Reply #21 posted 03/05/12 1:07pm

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PurpleJedi said:

Serious said:


disbelief

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 lol.

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lol kiss2 wink

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Reply #22 posted 03/05/12 1:34pm

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PurpleJedi said:

Graycap23 said:

Won't his upper and lower body be out of porportion?

Sorry...here's the pic;

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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Reply #23 posted 03/05/12 2:15pm

Gunsnhalen

I want to be taller to!!

i'm only 6'5 lol

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Reply #24 posted 03/05/12 2:32pm

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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.

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Reply #25 posted 03/05/12 2:59pm

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Gunsnhalen said:

I want to be taller to!!

i'm only 6'5 lol

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Reply #26 posted 03/05/12 3:00pm

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KidaDynamite said:

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.

nod

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Reply #27 posted 03/05/12 3:01pm

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PurpleJedi said:

Gunsnhalen said:

I want to be taller to!!

i'm only 6'5 lol

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Reply #28 posted 03/05/12 3:02pm

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Gunsnhalen said:

PurpleJedi said:

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i just got one of purplejedis famous slaps batting eyes

Yeah, and since you're so f*ckin' tall, you get a second helping;

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Reply #29 posted 03/05/12 3:05pm

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PurpleJedi said:

Gunsnhalen said:

i just got one of purplejedis famous slaps batting eyes

Yeah, and since you're so f*ckin' tall, you get a second helping;

fishslap

razz

i'm flattered

i just bought you some kfc

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