The leg-lengthening process requires a painful procedure in which a doctor breaks the femur in each of a patient’s legs and inserts extendable metal nails. The nails are gradually extended over ...

Theresia Fischer longed for a leg up in love. So, the model shelled out more than $162,000 on “Frankenstein” leg-lengthening surgeries to become more attractive to her now ex-husband.

"Impact x Nightline" speaks with patients who underwent the procedure. Being tall is a stature that many men have longed for and some are turning to leg lengthening surgery to enhance their looks ...

Patients are increasingly asking surgeons for leg-lengthening surgery for non-medical reasons. Surgery is safer now, but it still carries risks and should be avoided if possible, said surgeons.

John Lovedale told GQ that "the world seems to bend" for taller men. He decided to take out a loan to pay for leg-lengthening surgery to become 3 inches taller. A man who borrowed $75,000 for leg ...

So last January, he got a leg-lengthening operation to increase his height to 5’10". “My goal was never to be tall. It’s to be in a place where no one comments on my height,” Alex said.

As recently seen in "Materialists," however, there's a fix, albeit painful, for those who come up a bit short: leg-lengthening surgery. In the film, Lucy (Dakota Johnson) is a skilled New York ...

When people want to get taller, they wind up on Dr. Kevin Debiparshad’s operating table for limb lengthening surgery. What might seem crazy to many — cosmetic limb lengthening — is a growing ...

Rich Rotella, 38, is an actor who had limb-lengthening surgery to advance his career. He says it added 3 inches to his height and boosted his confidence, but it was painful. Rotella doesn't have ...

A 27-year-old ex-navy medic from Atlanta, Georgia, has revealed his decision to undergo a life-changing limb-lengthening surgery after being 'rejected' for being 'too short'. Dynzell Sigers ...

Doctor Michael Assayag with the "International Center for Limb Lengthening" in Baltimore says "cosmetic height surgery" or "stature lengthening" is growing in popularity. "A few years ago ...