The Crazy Things Women Do in the Name of Beauty: The Cinderella Procedure10

by Christine Dinh

Beauty and perfection has never played a tag-team trick as cruel as this.

I’m known for saying ‘Pain is beauty’ as I literally run around Los Angeles in notsogentle heels.  And I curse the stars that I wasn’t born with heels on like my mother. And who didn’t grow up with the notion of Cinderella and the perfect pair of heels?

Now because I’m Asian and a woman, it basically guarantees that I should have a weird fascination with feet.

Fact:  In my youth, I read in an issue of Jane (do you miss the magazine as much as I do?) or maybe it was Glamour that depicted accounts of Asian women who were inserting steel rods in their ankles so they could be two inches taller.

Second Fact:  In an episode of Full House, Michelle Tanner was so self-conscious by the size of her feet and under coaxing from the whackadoo Kimmy Gibbler, she shrink-wrapped her feet and stuck it in a bowl full of ice water. Chinese foot binding anyone?

Now one place in Los Angeles is fueling the latest extreme foot trend among women: the Cinderella procedure.

What does all these foot procedures include? Narrowing your feet. Shortening your toes. How about stealing butt fat and sticking them in your feet for extra cushioning so I really can go the distance in a pair of sky high, ankle-snapping heels. And if I’m really self-conscious about some sweaty piggies, that’s nothing a little shot of Botox can’t help.

Because I have really thought about it, why not sew a bit of your toes together so you don’t catch a glimpse of toe cleavage?

While I talk myself out of the thought of having butt fat in my feet, would any of you gals seriously consider this procedure that apparently women in LA are nuts over?