Harry, the handsome, well-heeled and obscenely eligible bachelor played by Pascal, is covering up the fact that he had leg lengthening surgery to add six inches to his height. “It’s the legs, isn’t it?” he asks when matchmaker Lucy, played by Johnson, breaks up with him.
But the real-life rise of leg lengthening surgery is perhaps the bleakest and most dystopian expression of this apparently harmless preference. Once only administered as a medical necessity, it was first pioneered by a Russian doctor and taken up with enthusiasm in China as a cosmetic operation in the 2000s, where job ads still openly list height requirements. Now it’s become increasingly popular in America and Europe, with one market research firm estimating that the industry will be worth £6.4bn by 2030. Even in 2020, the BBC reported that almost every clinic it spoke to had seen a year-on-year increase in clients opting for the painful procedure, which can cost up to $250,000 (£186,100) in the US.
Then there’s the lengthening itself, which often involves turning a metal key into the rods to gradually pull them apart, like you’re a victim in a particularly nightmarish Saw sequel. One Guardian journalist following a 5ft 6in man who flew to Turkey to have the op described the process as resembling “mediaeval torture”.
But I’ve dated across the height spectrum, including more than a few short kings and tall queens, so I feel uniquely qualified to weigh in on the desirability of height. It simply shouldn’t matter. Some of the most roguishly charming men I’ve met have only stood a few inches above my eye level. I accept that I may be an outlier in this, but I firmly believe that charisma doesn’t come with a height cut-off – otherwise Tom Cruise would never have made it as a movie star.
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The problems were manifold – you had to fix your waist, hair, skin and/or boobs – but the solution was simple. All you had to do was follow the advice of women’s mags and part with a bit of cash (okay, quite a lot of cash) to emerge a brand new you. And if you didn’t want to do it? Well, what are you: lazy, poor or both?
I’m sure that the men undergoing this leg lengthening surgery have found it personally transformative, but I can’t help but question just how far we are now encouraging people to go in the pursuit of our twisted beauty standards. When any person happily goes through excruciating pain for an inch or two of height, it says more about the society that idolises it than the person breaking their bones to get there.
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