umm yeah.... what the shit??

[Blue_Tires]

Australian councillor, Hajnal Ban, has legs broken to become taller

An Australian politician has gone to extraordinary lengths to be taken seriously by her peers: she has had her legs broken and stretched to become 3in (8cm) taller.

“A lot of young females have insecurities about their weight or their nose; mine was my height,” said Hajnal Ban, 31, a councillor with Logan City council in Queensland.

After nine months of excruciating pain, the councillor became a “normal” 5ft 4in.

Ms Ban was taunted at school and feared that her height would damage her credibility as she entered the legal profession and later went into local politics.

So she went to the Ilizarov orthopaedic clinic in Kurgan, Russia, and paid surgeons A$40,000 (£19,000) to break both her legs in four places and stretch them slowly for 1mm every day for nine months. Eventually she grew from 154cm (just under 5ft 1in) to 162cm.

“From the time I flew to Russia to the time I was able to wear high heels again was about a year in total, but at least nine months of that was excruciatingly painful,” she said. “You see sports people going in who need that extra height, and models . . . it’s a well-kept secret.”

Ms Ban, who was born in Israel and is of Hungarian origin, has lived in Australia since she was a child. She ran unsuccessfully for the conservative National Party during the federal election in 2007 and has been a local councillor for three years.

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article6196646.ece

[Bucky]

1. "She ran... for the conservative National Party"

no comment

[Bucky]

2. Wait I take it all back. Hajnal Ban is the best politician ever.

EVER!





Whoa! Let's get it a little closer camera guy!




YES!

That does it, I'm becoming a conservative.

[Soylent Brice]

3. i dub thee Bucky 180.

[Blue_Tires]

5. if Palin looked like that, McCain would have won all 50 states

and he would have had a 'tragic heart attack' the day after the inauguration...

[Xipe Totec]

7. By the Way, in Spanish, a "conservative" is a prophylactic n/t

[applegrove]

4. 5' 1" is not that short. I'm sorry I just don't understand why she would

go through something so excruciating.

[ohheckyeah]

6. I never knew I was abnormal at 5'1" until now. n/t

[RebelOne]

8. Rather than go through all that money and pain,

she should have just worn 3-inch-high heels.

[Blue_Tires]

10. or dated a relatively short man..

[Orrex]

9. She wanted to take Ethan Hawke's place on the next moon rocket

[TZ]

11. As a short person (5'0) I've heard about shit like this.

A lot of people try hormones to get growth spurts as well, which is dangerous, if not as painful. This speaks of a terribly terribly insecure person who thinks their worth lays entirely in their looks.