A 23-year-old Canadian model knows something about “elf esteem” after having her ears surgically modified to look like the mythical creature’s.
In August, 2011, Melynda Moon decided to get an operation that would make her ears look like a character from her favorite book series, “Lord of the Rings.”
“The elegance of the elf ear is something I adore,” she explained on a YouTube video documenting the surgery.
Moon, who lives in Guelph, Ontario, said the decision to change her elf, er, herself, was a long time coming. She believes she was a fairy in a previous existence.
“I have always been very close to nature. Pointed ears are the most adorable thing,and I find the ‘elven’ attire is so elegant,” she said, according to International Business Times. “I have always had fantasies about what it would be like to be something other than human, so I decided to change my appearance to look supernatural.”
The doctors who performed the $408 surgery skinned the tops of her ear cartilage,then skinned and cut pieces from the tips to form points. These tips were stitched together and removed a few weeks later after the ear skin was allowed to fuse, the Mirror reported.
Source: HuffPost
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