A father-of-two travelled to Turkey and spent $106,000 to get limb-lengthening surgery to increase his height after deciding his legs were 'too short' for his body.
Brian Sanchez, 33, a mortgage broker who lives in Georgia with his wife, Nidia, 30, and their daughters, Kaisley, two, and Kairi, six, said he felt like his body was 'out of proportion' and he looked like 'like a huge thumb
Brian Sanchez, 33, a mortgage broker who lives in Georgia said he felt like his body was 'out of proportion' and he looked like 'like a huge thumb'. Pictured: Brian before (L) and after (R) the surgery
'It's going to be really nice just to be able to hug her and have her all the way down there on my chest instead of being almost eye level.
'One of the things that I'll enjoy the most is being able to work out again and put some weight on my legs and have my body look a little bit more how I want it to.'
Last January, Brian realised his legs didn't match his 'torso proportions'.
He said: 'I realised that my legs were always looking weird, and I didn't know what it was, until one day I was sitting next to my brother-in-law who is almost 6ft 6in, and I was actually a little taller than he was.
'I thought that was weird, because I knew he was taller than I am by a lot, and we stood up, and all of a sudden, I started looking and realised my legs were too short for my body.
I'm broad, have long arms, and I'm wide, but my short legs make me look different – I almost look like a huge thumb, like those thumb men from Spy Kids.'
After the realisation, Brian, who had never previously had cosmetic surgery, started to dislike his aesthetics and decided to research ways to make himself taller.
He said: 'I thought I can either find a new hobby, and give up lifting weights, or I can fix the issue.
Brian had his first operation in last December, which involved breaking his tibia and fibula, putting a rod inside the bones, and fastening it with screws
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please someone make a westbrook marsey for the love of bardfinn
i think the caucs are fine with 6 foot but our brehs see it differently
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