Men are now turning to surgery to get bigger calves

Well, maybe, but that’s really only half of the story because, according to one cosmetic surgeon, the demand for calf contouring among men has gone through the roof over the last five years. During the 90-minute procedure, fat is either harvested from the buttocks and placed back inside the subject’s calf muscles, or silicone implants are used to beef up the lower leg.

Costing up to £8,000, the procedure is now so popular that Dr Gary Ross, a plastic surgeon based in Manchester, says demand has exceeded that of buttock augmentation.

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