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- Ibrahim Alğan paid almost $27,000 for surgery to make his legs longer.
- The 30-year-old told Insider he hated being short. "When you're short, you start 1-0 down."
- After his leg-lengthening surgery, Alğan founded a Turkey-based clinic offering the same procedure.
As a school counselor, Ibrahim Alğan's job was to help young people solve their problems. Yet he couldn't solve his own: a serious height complex.
Alğan, who's 30, is from the city of Adana in southern Turkey. He was 5-foot-2 and had strong feelings about his height.