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Removing a toe to fit into heels?

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    Losing your pinky toe to wear your favorite heels - some women say it's worth it

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These days women will do just about anything to fit into their favor pair of high heels including surgery.

A growing number of women are paying thousands of dollars to surgically Alter their feet just to make wearing heels a more comfortable experience.

Many women love wearing high heels I -- Theater and a growing number of women are taking some extreme measures to where they're favored heels.

Surgeries like shortening their toes receiving food injections and even completely cutting off their pinky -- Unless you've been there and you can't on Hughes.

And -- in pain.

-- can come back.

Susan jamming used to love wearing heels and sandals but it's been years since she's been able to Wear them for more than just a few minutes because it hurts -- bad.

Now after having about a centimeter of her second -- cut off she says she can't wait to go shopping nice -- -- support us.

87% of women -- had -- problems from wearing uncomfortable or ill fitting shoes such as high heels according to the American pediatric medical association.

Beauty is pain and it hurts to be beautiful and all that so.

I think heels are -- part of that.

Doctor Nathan Lucas is a fifteen year veteran of -- procedures and -- seen a steady growth in the number of women seeking -- Having come in and they'll be like doctor Lucas you know what a weird you know -- high -- shoes or let's face passable issues but I can't.

Doctor Lucas says procedures such as shortening -- in removing onions allows women's feet to more comfortably fit into heels.

And injecting college and into the -- of the foot can add some extra cushioning and make wearing the latest in fashion a less painful experience.

They think mean there wasn't -- yourself.

-- In Memphis Tennessee I'm here -- -- Fox News -- com.

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