Aspiring liberal lawmaker undergoes ‘world’s most painful’ cosmetic surgery to ‘improve’ his appearance [Video]

09:27 EDT 26 Mar 2025, updated 09:30 EDT 26 Mar 2025

An aspiring lawmaker had his legs deliberately broken as part of an excruciating cosmetic procedure to make him taller.

Thomas Keeper opted for the brutal surgery, ‘world’s most painful operation’ to gain four inches on his 5’6′ frame.

‘It has taken away that insecurity. I don’t worry about my height now,’ he said.

Keeper is a Liberal candidate for Calgary Confederation in Canada.

He underwent the procedure in 2010, but details of the surgery have re-emerged amid his election bid.

The agonizing, four hour operation costs between $75,000 and $100,000 and involves drilling steel rods into the patient’s thighs.

But Keeper said the agony is nothing compared to the ‘pain’ of being short. 

‘The world treats you differently,’ Keeper said in an interview with DailyMail.com’s sister publication The Mail on Sunday in 2011. 

‘Look at the way people mock Tom Cruise and Nicolas Sarkozy.’