Woman shares photo of amazing body after excess skin removal surgery

SIMONE Anderson — who made headlines after rapidly losing 92kg — has showed off the impressive results from her excess skin removal surgery.

WEIGHT loss stories are gobbled up by the internet.

It seems every day there’s a new inspirational tale of someone who decided to turn their life around, and now has the jaw-dropping before and after pics to show for it.

One such story that resonated with the online community was that of 25-year-old Simone Anderson. In 2014 the Auckland-based makeup artist decided it was time to trim down, after tipping the scales at 169kg.

“I had no pressing health issues, but it was getting harder and harder to do day-to-day things,” she told news.com.au.

“Even bringing in the garbage bin up our very steep driveway was difficult and that’s when it hit me that something needed to change.”

Simone Anderson documented her weight loss with a series of selfies on Instagram.

Simone Anderson documented her weight loss on social media.

In October that year she underwent Gastric Sleeve surgery and in less than a year she managed to lose 92kg. Her weight loss journey was documented with a weekly selfie on her Instagram account.

Exercise played a big part in her transformation.

Since she created the account, Anderson has gathered more than 136,000 followers and regularly shares inspiring words of advice, her workout regimen and her diet choices with them.

While she gained an enthusiastic slew of supporters, she was also accused by some of “faking” her weight loss. Detractors claimed she couldn’t have lose all the weight because she didn’t seem to have any excess skin in her early pictures.

“The depth and the level they [the haters] go to — it’s mind-blowing,” she told Daily Mail Australia.

“I wouldn’t even think to write that to my worst enemy,” she said.

But that soon changed. As the kilos continued to fall off she was left with excess skin that surrounded her newly trim frame.

Anderson had to use compression leggings to hold the excess skin in when she worked out.

“It was not something I was ashamed or embarrassed of or anything like that,” she said.

“But when I was sports training I would need to wear compression pants under sports tights to keep it all in place and stop it from bouncing up and down. It would rub and cause bleeding under the skin and I would get belly button infections, it was just incredibly uncomfortable.”

So late in 2015 when she hit her goal weight she decided to undergo surgery to remove the skin.

Anderson decided to undergo surgery to remove the excess skin.

Dr Remus Rapta, a doctor in Arizona, offered to perform the surgery, which would take nine hours.

“No amount of diet or exercise is going to get rid of that loose skin,” Dr. Rapta told People before the procedure.

Anderson had the surgery in the US.

Six days after her surgery she appeared on Tyra Banks’ lifestyle TV show FABLife to talk about her transformation.

Anderson appeared on FABLife, hosted by Tyra Banks.

She said that she felt “a bit tender” following the surgery, but overall she was thrilled with the results.

“My body is so, so amazing, I couldn’t be happier,” she said.

“I cannot wait for summer … I’ll be fully recovered and definitely be in a bikini.”

Anderson, shortly after her surgery.

She has been thrilled with the results.

At the 88-week mark she posted a photo to show off the results from the surgery.

“I have completely changed my lifestyle, diet and exercise. I am 33 weeks post-op abdominoplasty, bra line back lift, breast lift & augmentation,” she wrote on Instagram.

“Basically most of my lose skin has been removed apart from that on my upper thighs and bottom.”

A comparison shot on Instagram.

“The human body is incredible that’s for sure ... how much it continues to change still blows my mind,” she wrote next to a comparison snap of herself.