1000-Lb Best Friends star Vannessa Cross triumphantly declared that she feels “healthy” and “happy” after losing 250 pounds.
She rose to fame on the TLC reality show, which follows the lives of four morbidly obese friends and their various attempts to lose weight.
Vannessa, 46, previously weighed 450 pounds, but managed to slim down to less than 200 pounds with the help of bariatric surgery, “healthy foods” and regular exercise.
After her dramatic weight loss, she was left with excess skin, which has since been removed through surgery, she said. People.
Her recovery from the procedure was so “easy and painless” that she has become “a little addicted to plastic surgery” and hopes to get a Brazilian butt lift, she said.
1000-Lb Best Friends star Vannessa Cross triumphantly declared that she feels “healthy” and “happy” after losing 250 pounds.
“You know, white girl, I’ve never had butts in my life,” Vannessa said. “Mommy and daddy didn’t have a butt, so I’m going to need my plastic surgeon to give me one of those cute round booties.”
She reflected: ‘Life has changed immensely for me, from when I weighed 450 to now weighing less than 200 pounds. In fact I go to the gym. In fact, I eat extremely healthy foods. I never saw myself living a healthy lifestyle and here I am.’
In recent episodes of 1000-Lb. Best Friends, Vannessa could be seen feeling like her friends had “exiled” her “for losing weight.”
However, he continued on his mission to achieve the body he wanted and met with doctors to try to get approval for skin removal surgery.
She was filmed consulting with a surgeon to remove excess skin hanging from her abdomen, to which she gave the nickname ‘Betsy May’.
‘A couple of plastic surgeons turned me down, which blew me away because I was just a bunch of hanging skin. But finally I found a doctor who accepted me and I had plastic surgery,” Vannessa now revealed.
I got Betsy May cut, baby! She’s gone! He’s swimming somewhere! Vanessa declared triumphantly about her surgery.
‘All I wanted was to be normal. When I lost all my weight but still had that hanging skin, going to the gym, every time I ran, you would hear the roll of fat hitting,’ he recalled.
After her dramatic weight loss, she was left with excess skin, which has since been removed through surgery, she told People; Pictured before skin removal.
She reflected, “Life has changed immensely for me, from when I was 450 to now I’m under 200 pounds,” highlighting her new “healthy lifestyle” with “extremely healthy foods.”
“I love being able to walk out the door every day and hold my head up knowing that I’m somebody,” she said, boasting, “Now Vannessa’s out there, baby!”
‘People were watching. “You’re wearing a tank top and you’ve got your bat wings hanging down and they hear ‘pap pap pap,'” Vanessa added.
‘Now I can go to the gym and run and I don’t have any problems. That’s amazing. In fact, I live life now. Instead of being the great person who just exists, I’m living.”
She also bared her soul about the change in her emotional state since her weight loss and surgery, proudly announcing, “I feel like I’m the baddest woman in the world and no one can touch me.” “I love being able to walk out the door every day and hold my head up high knowing that I’m somebody.”
Vanessa acknowledged: ‘Yes, maybe I was someone who weighed 450 pounds, but I was someone who just wanted to stay hidden. Now Vannessa is out there, baby! I want the world to see me. I’m happy. I’m healthy.’
With the skin removal complete, Vannessa has set her sights on the prospect of a Brazilian butt lift, which she describes as her “biggest goal” at the moment.
‘I’m a bit addicted to plastic surgery because my healing was extremely easy and painless. So my next goal is a BBL. “I want my Brazilian butt lift,” she said.