A model who spent £128,000 on extreme leg-lengthening surgery is ill with bone disease as a result of the operations, she has revealed.
Reality star Theresia Fischer, 32, spent years in surgery and recovery, having opted to increase the length of her legs by five and a half inches, which is fourteen centimetres. Surgeons broke thigh and shin bones in both her legs and used steel rods to support them as new bone tissue formed to fuse them back together.
Now Theresia has been made to quit a German version of Battle of the Reality Stars due to painful bone infections. The former Germany's Next Top Model star - who is now 1.84 metres (6 feet) tall - revealed: "I had periosteum inflammation."
Theresia Fischer, 31, from the city of Hamburg, Germany, poses in undated photo (CEN)
Image shows the legs of Theresia Fischer, 31, from the city of Hamburg, Germany, after the extension, on July 12, 2022 (CEN)Medics have said the chronic condition impacts the layer of connective tissue that encircles bone and might cause swelling and a painful, constant ache. Theresia said she has managed to "stay afloat" with painkillers but she avoids putting on too much weight on her most painful leg.
She said that filming reality TV shows had already been challenging, especially when she had to run or move around a set quickly. She said: "When I had to run a little or be faster - it's just strange to run with metal in your legs."
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Just months ago she reportedly found out during a health check that the fibula bone in one of her legs had not grown as planned. Now Theresia longs for the day when the metal support rods can be removed, saying: "I'm longing for that day when these rods finally come out."
She had her first leg op in 2016 followed by a second in 2022 to have her thigh and lower leg bones cut and fitted with metal rods.
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