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An image purportedly showing a foot after it was surgically modified to resemble a high heel shoe has been circulating online for several years along with the claim that this skin stiletto was the result of a procedure called Cinderella surgery: The image is actually a distorted version of artist Matilde Pernille's digital work entitled Fake VI. When it was posted to her 500px photography page in 2013, it was tagged with the keywords manipulation, fake, and photoshop. Although this image was digitally manipulated, at least one podiatrist truly does perform Cinderella procedures. However, the results of these cosmetic foot surgeries are not nearly as extreme as those shown above -- it is a surgery to remove bunions. The New York Times reported in 2014: Pernille's artwork likely started to become associated with Cinderella Surgery shortly after the New York TImes piece on Sadrieh came out. When the web site Health 24 News later published an article on the same topic, this doctored image was predominantly featured. Pernille wasn't the first to imagine a woman's foot morphing into a high heel shoe made of flesh and bone. Artist Julie Rapp's created a similar image in 2001 for a piece called Overstepping:
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