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"It&amp;#x27;s no secret that we women will go to some wild lengths to look good high heels--taping our toes together, enrolling in government-funded classes to learn how to walk in &amp;#x27;em--but the latest news about &amp;quot;cosmetic foot surgery&amp;quot; just might be the most disturbing of all. Today&amp;#x27;s Wall Street Journal reports on the increasing popularity of &amp;quot;The Cinderella Procedure,&amp;quot; a strictly cosmetic surgery that narrows the foot to allow it to fit into stilettos, and a slew of other creepy treatments that put women under the knife to help them wear high heels. There&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;the &amp;#x27;Perfect 10! Aesthetic Toe Shortening&amp;#x27; that invisibly trims toes that hang over the end of sandals or have to be crushed into tight shoes. There&amp;#x27;s also &amp;#x27;Foot-Tuck Fat Pad Augmentation,&amp;#x27; in which fat from the patient&amp;#x27;s abdomen is injected into the balls of her feet to provide extra cushioning for long days on high heels.&amp;quot; One New York surgeon even offers what he calls &amp;quot;a pinky tuck,&amp;quot; slimming down the smallest toe when it becomes deformed after years of wearing high heels. Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! The procedures are only being performed by a small group of doctors--one of them, podiatrist Ali Sadrieh, says, &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s unrealistic to tell women not to wear high heels. I came up with procedures that allow the women to function, pain-free, in the real world.&amp;quot;--and the American Podiatric Medical Association has spoken out strongly against them. &amp;quot;Our function is to relieve pain and correct deformities. We are not trained to allow women to fit into a narrower shoe,&amp;quot; the group&amp;#x27;s president recently said. I&amp;#x27;m with the APMA--the thought of operating on a healthy foot just to get into a pair of sky-high stilettos strikes me as the ultimate vanity. Click over to the Wall Street Journal now to read the full article (and find out more about the procedures on offer), then let us know what you think. Would you ever voluntarily go under the knife to look better in your Jimmy Choos? Or do you find this whole thing pretty darn ridiculous? Discuss! PLUS: - Crazy but true: A government funded class that teaches young girls to walk in high heels AND! - 8 high heel tips from fashion week pros Glamour stylists answer your fashion questions at WhatToWear.com. Ask away! You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Photo: Comstock/Thinkstock "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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