- Lexi Reed, known for her Instagram account @fatgirlfedup, had seven pounds of loose skin removed during surgery this week.
- Her operation is called a lower body lift and skin was removed from her stomach and legs.
- She is currently in recovery and will soon share her results on Instagram.
Lexi Reed just got it £7 of the loose skin removed from her tummy and thighs during skin-removal surgery – and posted photos to prove it.
After losing more than 300 pounds, Lexi, 27, known for her Instagram account @fatgirlfedup, she was left with loose skin on her stomach, legs and arms. And when he started getting in her way, she decided to give up.
Earlier this week – Halloween to be exact – Lexi went under the knife for a lower body lift performed by a board certified plastic surgeon, Joseph Michaels, MD In the nine-hour surgery, Michaels had excess skin removed from her stomach and thighs, contoured her bottom and lower half to follow the new curves of her body, and even gave her a new belly button hole.
If surgery sounds like a big deal, that’s because it is. “[It’s] the biggest surgery we can do to change a person’s body after weight loss,” says Michaels, adding that it leaves a 360-degree incision.” This, btw, is why it is sometimes known as a 360 bottom lift, as Lexi described in a Post on Instagram.
In a video shot during the operation, Michaels she holds up the skin she removed from Lexi’s belly and places it on a scale (Lexi was really good at that, btw – she even rewrote it). That section of skin alone, which was three feet wide and four feet tall, according to Michaels, weighed 2,725 pounds
Lexi started losing weight when a friend challenged her to cut out junk food and exercise, and she did. But as with many cases of extreme weight loss, her skin didn’t follow suit.
According to Lexi, her loose skin had become painful and cumbersome, especially when going to the gym, so surgery was the best option. While she was nervous about the procedure, she was very excited about the results.
Michaels followed the video with a photo of each section of skin that had been removed on a table with labels indicating which parts of Lexie’s body each portion came from – he even called it her “old belly button”.
The amount of skin removed would have been greater, Michaels writes, but he used “excess tissue to form buttock flaps that were then rotated into her buttocks to give improved projection and contour.” In his caption, the surgeon suggests keeping an eye on Lexi’s account for photos of her new body.
For now, Lexi is posting on her page about resting and even catching the sunset from her hospital room after surgery…but it’s not all rest and relaxation: According to a post-surgery Instagram, Lexi revealed that he is in a lot of pain after surgery.
“I’ve never had surgery and I cried every day multiple times,” she wrote, but added that she was “determined to heal and recover [her] all.”
Wishing Lexi a speedy recovery!
