This programme asks why patients are willing to undergo risky and agonising procedures to gain a smaller waist or a few extra inches in stature. This programme examines a range of new extreme procedures from cosmetic toe surgery to rib removal to height increase and tells the story of a girl who endured incredibly painful leg lengthening surgery in order to increase her height by four inches. In California, the Mecca of cosmetic surgery, if a patient is unhappy with the shape of their feet, height or waist line, surgeons are willing to cosmetically re-shape them, but these complicated procedures are often achieved by breaking or removing bones. Bone-Breakers observes in particular the perceived pressures on women, to achieve and sustain physical perfection and how it has now dictated an ever-increasing demand on surgical techniques to manipulate body shape.