Cankle Surgery On The Rise According To The Daily Mail

Abs, butt, thighs...there's a lengthy list of body parts that women all over the world would like to slim down.

But cankles? Not one we usually think about.

So good thing that the Daily Mail drew our attention to this weighty issue, because apparently anxiety over fat ankles is running rampant overseas.

It began with British pop star Cheryl Cole, who, for the record, has an amazing body that most of us would kill for. However, according to a Mail article from last month, Miss Cole (along with Helen Mirren and Hillary Clinton) has cankles.

Cue the group eye roll. But that's not all! On Wednesday, the Mail reported:

A top cosmetic surgery [sic] has revealed a 60 per cent rise in inquiries into ops that eradicate the merging of the calf and ankle. [...] Transform Cosmetic Surgery Group believe the recent attention on Mrs Cole's legs is behind a sudden surge of interest in liposuction treatment.

Correct us if we're wrong, but we think this sounds like a case of making mountains out of molehills...or, you know, cankles out of ankles.

Cheryl Cole:

For a surgery-free way to avoid the cankle effect, check out this video:

Comments

[shuffleoff]

11:01 AM on 06/20/2011

Did Huff Post need to fill some space so they found this ridiculous article?

[sylvabugg2]

09:47 PM on 06/18/2011

OMG cankles are when the ankle and the calf are the same size!!! I see none of that here, nice symmetry.

[MagicalPossibilities]

06:47 PM on 06/18/2011

What blind person said this woman has cankles? Her legs are gorgeous! Most women would kill for a pair of gams like hers.

[noaxe397]

02:01 AM on 06/18/2011

A slender ankle is one of the 3 necessary ingredients for million dollar legs. The other two being chisled calves and firm but meaty thighs. I approve of this procedure.

[MorpheusXNYC]

01:33 AM on 06/18/2011

Wooo.. She's smoking hot..... Trust that if she were my woman, her ankles would be the least of my concerns. ;-)

[BlueZoo]

11:41 PM on 06/17/2011

Good grief! My husband lost his arm in an accident. He only wishes he had to worry about me having cankles! Humanity is truly swirling around the bowl these days!

[sugarcreekchile]

11:04 PM on 06/17/2011

The insanity of of cosmetic surgery continues. Unless a man has some kind of fetish, when he looks at a woman; the last thing he's looking at are her ankles. Going under local or general anesthetic, 1 week of downtime, 3 more weeks of ugly support stockings, plus the risk of losing the ability to walk or have walking be painful if something goes wrong doesn't make much sense. How did women with thick ankles ever survive for centuries before some looneytoon convinced them that they should be concerned about the size of their ankles?

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

11:50 AM on 06/19/2011

sugarcreekchile, "...How did women with thick ankles ever survive for centuries..." I'd bet that cankles and other physical traits that some people are trying to change, were attributes from an evolutionary standpoint. If I were a pioneer walking alongside my covered wagon from Missouri to Oregon in the 1840s, those cankles would provide strength and endurance for the journey.

[sugarcreekchile]

04:05 PM on 06/19/2011

That makes perfect sense.

[defam]

07:43 PM on 06/17/2011

she does not have cankles

[nancy1113]

07:14 PM on 06/17/2011

shallow people and their surgery's

[bonnieb333]

04:42 PM on 06/20/2011

Sounds like the "cat" calling the kettle black. Shallow people, huh? But I guess it isn't shallow to have "cosmetic" surgery done on your cat, right?

Also, learn how to spell. You're showing your ignorance. s-u-r-g-e-r-i-e-s is the plural of surgery. It isn't possessive and doesn't have an apostrophe s.

[spoiiledbrat]

05:51 PM on 06/17/2011

I have the skinniest ankles ever and I hate them!! I'd give anything to HAVE cankles! I think they look a lot better than chicken ankles.

[ladyjoker7413123]

07:51 PM on 06/17/2011

My ankles are puny too! I can't even run without them hurting. My wrist are also tiny, they look like T-Rex arms. I have chronic wrist pain as well. I would give my pinky toes for more sturdy ankles and wrists.

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

11:54 AM on 06/19/2011

Get into bicycling.

[spoiiledbrat]

12:58 PM on 06/19/2011

Thank God for slouch socks-lol. Too bad they went out of style & you can't find them anymore.

My wrists are the same too and worse yet I have man hands! Due to a lot of yard work & moving furniture around every couple of months.

Funny how we all pick our bodies apart. Oh well, things could be worse I suppose.

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

11:53 AM on 06/19/2011

You can't change your genetic structuring, but if you have the ability and willpower, get into long distance bicycle riding. I was a bicycle messenger for a year (long ago), and when I was done with that, my legs were huge and strong.

[spoiiledbrat]

12:54 PM on 06/19/2011

Thanks for the advice. My husband & I were actually talking about doing that for different reasons (getting old...er! lol) I didn't really think about it helping that as well as my tummy. More of an incentive now. Thanks again!

And if you're a dad......Have a Happy Father's Day!

[KRTaylor]

05:08 PM on 06/17/2011

One of my facebook buds was simply thrilled with the news that Cheryl Cole had cankles. I'd never heard of Ms Cole before that and had to look up her pics. Must say, if the rest of me looked like her, I'd bloody well be happy with not only the cankles but platypus feet as well.

[its1luckycat]

05:00 PM on 06/17/2011

maybe she should have gotten a nose job instead

[donabrdluv]

04:50 PM on 06/17/2011

Gee, I didn't know my thin ankles were so pretty!!!!!

[jeb29615]

04:20 PM on 06/17/2011

She should use the money she would waste on "cankle" surgery to have a bigger set of hooters put in...I mean like 50DDD's then noone would even notice if she had legs...problem solved...

[noaxe397]

02:02 AM on 06/18/2011

At least then she would be proportioned top to bottom!

[nnealj1]

04:14 PM on 06/17/2011

Wow, and I bet that most of us were totally unaware of the fact that we had cankles...as if the world didn't have enough to worry about, now cankles are being elevated to concern status!!!

[Red45]

04:42 PM on 06/17/2011

I'm sure we'll start seeing commercials for prescription drugs for this condition where, in the first 5 seconds we'll hear the name of the drug and what it's for and the remaining 55 seconds will contain all the dangerous reasons why we shouldn't take it!

[gleitz05]

06:26 PM on 06/17/2011

Isn't that always the way, Red? LOL