# 02 Before and After | For a couple extra inches

An episode of [Background Briefing](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/73330306), 21 Nov 2025, 33 min.

Audio: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/f7/Z/7l.mp3

For young men struggling with body image, social media offers a radical solution: get taller by breaking your legs. As the cosmetic limb-lengthening industry booms worldwide, Emilia Terzon explores the secretive online communities obsessed with undergoing the procedure, and meets the doctors left to deal with what happens when it goes wrong.

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