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When it comes to chiseling those lower gams, you can either spend hours toiling away Sisyphus-style on the stair climber while wearing FitFlops, or you can opt for the latest eyebrow-raising plastic surgery procedure: ankle liposuction. Cankles. Even the word sounds unflattering. For those of you blessed with svelte legs who have no clue what we're talking about, the term refers to an unfortunate situation in which excess tissue surrounds the ankle area, basically giving the cankler an ankle-less look.
In many cases, it's a side effect of excess weight gain, but in others, it's just plain funky genetics -- your body is programmed to store fat in the exact place where you least want it. (Newsflash: Miley Cyrus has lamented hers.) And like many other genetic predispositions (say, less-than-curvaceous cleavage), plastic surgeons can now fix those ample ankles for an equally ample $5,000, on average.
Which leaves us to wonder: What will they suction next?
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Sunday 22 August
By Victor
Report spam! Don't Just give it a negative vote,REPORT IT!
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Sunday 22 August
By b1oodstone
At least Clinton doesn't need cranial lipo like that fathead, Sarah Palin.
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Sunday 22 August
By n
How sad a world we've become.... What's next ?
People are so pathetically insecure in today's world....
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Sunday 22 August
By Ceecie
You are so right. This should be called "Hillary Surgery"!
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Sunday 22 August
By sandra
Great. another thing to make women feel like shit about. Good god can't we ever make men feel like shit??????????
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Sunday 22 August
By Bob
Sandra, why when women judge women do you throw men under the bus?
Sunday 22 August
By phil
No Sandra. You cannot make men feel like Shit. We don't care about such things as "cankles." We are far too busy being less self absorbed, and in making a living. Any woman who is so self conscious that she needs "ankle" plastic surgery, has far too much disposable income and time on their hands. Doctors love these self absorbed types. They make the yacht payments.
Monday 23 August
By jilly
Yes, my son has cankles like I do. His friends always joke about it. They certainly could hve mentioned men in the article. P.S., My dad has them too.
Tuesday 28 September
By pjf
It is easy to make a man feel like shit.
1. When they remove their shorts. You comment," Is that it!"
2. Don't worry hunny size does not matter.
3. And the topper of all toppers. Oh yeah I had the big O too. I just fell asleep because you were such a turn on.
Sunday 22 August
By anne
The tyopic is ankles. leave to an idiot far lefty to throw politics into it???
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Sunday 22 August
By Josh
"When it comes to chiseling those lower gams, you can either spend hours toiling away Sisyphus-style on the stair climber while wearing FitFlops, or you can opt for the latest eyebrow-raising plastic surgery procedure: ankle liposuction." -- This article makes me sick.
Yeah. Why exercise and actually try to work for something when you can take a shortcut, tell people you have a thyroid condition so they don't judge you, and waste 5,000 dollars in the process.
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Monday 23 August
By Jilly
Well, I am slim and I have "cankles". That is just, unfortunately, wear my fat goes. It is a bummer. No matter how much I exercise, I got the "canks".
Tuesday 28 September
By laurab
Diet and exercise can only do so much. I'm not overweight, but I have very large calves and ankles. I don't have the money or inclination to have surgery on them, but I'm sure I fall into the category of people this service is aimed at. I did a figure competition last year and I was exercising with weights 5-6 times a week and doing cardio twice a day, five times a week. I was also on a high protein diet to gain muscle. Despite this, I still had large calves and ankles. My fat tends to deposit on my lower body and no matter how I tailored my workouts the fat on the lower body was harder to lose. Meanwhile, my upper body was becoming very lean.
Anyway, I just wanted to point out that it isn't just overweight people who have "cankles". Genetics determine where our fat tends to go to first. That's why some women are normal sized but naturally have large breasts. Or some women are overweight and have relatively small breasts for their bodies.
Sunday 22 August
By CAB
This is so silly, There has to be more to life than chubby ankles.
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Sunday 22 August
By martin
Whats up with that picture ? a woman in high heels dancing on a cocktail table while 2 other women highly excited are watching her. Lesbians or what ?
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Sunday 22 August
By Barry Blackberry
Hillary should be excited about this. She's got legs like a Steinway.
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Sunday 22 August
By Barry Blackberry
Sandra on, "making men feel like shit" - here're a couple of hints: "skid marks" & men who wipe from back to front.
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Sunday 22 August
By sexyankles
There are some legs out there that are straight from the calf down and no amount of exercise will erase that. These are the legs of otherwise thin women. It's a genetic trait and the only way to get rid of it is through surgery. I've never needed this or wanted anything like this, but honestly, there are single women who are very self-conscious about this genetic defect and many of them are very good looking otherwise. They want a partner...I understand.
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Monday 23 August
By Jilly
Yes, this is sooo very true, as you are talking about me.
Monday 23 August
By TRIXIE
I have "piano legs...seriously they are stumps
Better to have fat legs than no legs at all!!!!!! I am 69 yrs old and have NEVER PUT ON A SWIM SUIT OR SHORTS! too embarrassed!
CANKLE SURGERY SOUNDS GRET TO ME......WHERE DO I SIGN UP?
YIPPPEEEE!
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