This is The Guardian.
Today, would you have your legs broken to make yourself taller?
My name is Ezequiel.
I am from Barcelona, from Spain.
I am 41 years old.
And right now I am in Turkey because I am doing the leg lengthening.
Ezekiel is halfway through this grueling process,
in which you would have spent three months living in a hotel in Istanbul to complete a procedure that will break and then lengthen his legs.
I had my surgery on 3 July.
Right now I have length almost five centimeters.
I want to achieve eight centimeters.
He was excited before the surgery.
He'd done his research, he'd saved the money, and now, finally, the moment was here.
You wake up, and when you wake up, believe me, the pain is so, so extreme.
You feel that your bones, everything is like an explosion of pain inside you.
The first three days, you regret.
You start to realise that I had my bones break and you are in a foreign country and I can't even move.
I can't do nothing.
This isn't for the faint hearted.
After his femur bones, that's the ones in his thighs,