{"id":424,"date":"2025-06-06T14:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/?p=424"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:43:05","slug":"mum-has-17lb-flap-of-saggy-skin-removed-from-stomach-after-shedding-half-her-bodyweight-for-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Mum has 17lb flap of saggy SKIN removed from stomach after shedding half her bodyweight for wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Olga Hernandez, 41, from Tucson, Arizona, has lost half her body weight\u2014going from 405lbs to 13st 7lbs\u2014after swapping fast food for home-cooked meals and undergoing a gastric sleeve surgery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13817\" src=\"https:\/\/currentnews-foryou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-413.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Her incredible transformation helped her drop seven dress sizes, but left her with 17lbs of excess saggy skin. Olga, a mum-of-three and palliative nurse, had the skin surgically removed and shared the footage to inspire others. Despite the pain, she says it was \u201cworth it\u201d and is now excited to wear her dream wedding dress when she marries her fianc\u00e9, Daryl Auclair, in April.<\/p>\n<div class=\"b-r b-r--middle_content\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13818\" src=\"https:\/\/currentnews-foryou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-414-1024x941.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Olga struggled with weight since her teens, using food as comfort after trauma and depression. At her heaviest, she consumed large portions of KFC, snacks, and hoarded food. Doctors warned of serious health risks, prompting her to take action in 2013. Since then, she\u2019s had multiple surgeries costing $24,000, including liposuction and skin removal from her arms and stomach.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13819\" src=\"https:\/\/currentnews-foryou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-415-1024x664.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Now wearing a size medium for the first time, Olga says the changes are \u201clife-changing,\u201d and she\u2019s looking forward to the future\u2014healthier, more confident, and ready to walk down the aisle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olga Hernandez, 41, from Tucson, Arizona, has lost half her body weight\u2014going from 405lbs to 13st 7lbs\u2014after swapping fast food for home-cooked meals and undergoing a gastric sleeve surgery. Her &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}