A single mother who lost 339 pounds is celebrating her new body after getting her excess skin removed.
Anna, 28, who appeared on Wednesday’s episode of Skin Tight, once weighed 474 pounds.
As a child, Anna was bullied at school, with children throwing food at her in the hallway. She attended a weight loss camp, but the stint didn’t help, and Anna’s weight soared after her grandmother passed away.
Before and after: Single mother Anna, 28, is celebrating her new body after getting her excess skin removed on TLC’s Skin Tight
Changes: Anna lost a whopping 339 pounds over the course of her life, but was unhappy after being left with excess skin
Body image: ‘My skin looks like dough,’ she said before getting the excess skin removed. ‘I feel disgusting and I look deformed’
Anna previously had gastric band surgery in an attempt to shed pounds, but shortly afterwards she became pregnant with her daughter Layla, now six.
Still, 10 years after she had the surgery, Anna was able to reach her goal weight of 135 pounds.
However, she was left with excess skin, which she found unsightly, and was unable to do certain activities with her daughter.
That situation left her struggling to feel at home in her own body and hampered her self-esteem.
‘My skin looks like dough,’ she said before getting the excess skin removed. ‘I feel disgusting and I look deformed.’
Past: As a child, Anna was bullied at school, with children throwing food at her in the hallway
Pounds: Anna attended a weight loss camp, but the stint didn’t help, and Anna’s weight soared after her grandmother passed away
Family: The mother previously had gastric band surgery in an attempt to shed pounds, but shortly afterwards she became pregnant with her daughter Layla, now six
The mother added: ‘I have a six-year-old daughter and I don’t want her to be ashamed of me.’
In an attempt to remedy the situation, Anna consulted Dr. John LoMonaco, who approved her for skin removal surgery.
‘I’m honestly willing to take that pain,’ Anna said before going under the knife, knowing that she would have to go through a tough recovery.
In phase one of her procedures, Anna had an arm lift, a lower body lift, and a side chest lift, getting a whopping 11.8 pounds of skin removed.
For her second surgery, Anna underwent a thigh lift, an upper body lift, and a breast augmentation.
Procedure: In an attempt to remedy the situation, Anna consulted Dr. John LoMonaco, who approved her for skin removal surgery
Worried: ‘I have a six-year-old daughter and I don’t want her to be ashamed of me,’ Anna said before she went under the knife
Body image: The excess skin left Anna struggling to feel at home in her own body and hampered her self-esteem
Prepared: Anna said before her surgeries that she was ‘willing to take that pain’, knowing that she would have to go through a tough recovery
Under the knife: In the operating room, doctors removed Anna’s excess flesh and also gave her a breast augmentation
Surgeries: In the first phase of her procedures, Anna (pictured in her recovery phase) had 11.8 pounds of skin removed
Optimism: Anna (pictured showing a scar from her arm lift) said she felt ‘one step closer to being able to live a real life’ after the surgeries
Process: The mother went under the knife twice as doctors removed the excess skin from her upper and lower body
After recovering from her procedures, Anna showed off her new body to family and friends, including her mother Mary and daughter Layla.
The single mother jumped for joy after getting her excess skin removed, and celebrated her new look body by taking Layla to a trampoline park, where the pair jumped around.
Anna admitted she would never have been able to do such an activity with Layla when she was at her heaviest weight.
She felt a renewed sense of optimism following the procedures, telling the camera: ‘I’m one step closer to being able to live a real life.’