The Woman Who Lost 30 Stone - Season 4, Episode 6 In this episode of Extraordinary People, Connie Jackson of Nashville, Tennessee endures complicated surgery to removed excess skin from her body after losing more than 400 pounds!
How would it feel to shed two thirds of your body weight? "Like walking through gelatin," says Connie Jackson, the Nashville woman whose body symbolises the nightmarish events of her life and her agonising quest to stitch things back into shape.
This instalment of Five's groundbreaking documentary series follows Connie's quest to totally transform her body through surgery. As if the intense pain and life-threatening complications involved in undergoing highly invasive surgery weren't enough, a series of cruel twists of fate turn Connie's life upside-down and, almost literally, inside out.
At 45 stone Connie was reclusive, plagued with health problems and close to death. She needed a radical solution. After extreme stomach-reduction surgery, she managed to lose a staggering 30 stone but was left with sagging, baggy skin which had lost all of its elasticity. Connie has had enough of the gelatin. She has decided to go under the knife again for more life-threatening surgery to get rid, once and for all, of her former "fat girl" self.
"My life has been hell for 40 years”, says Connie. "I finally feel normal – and now I want to look normal."
Connie was obese by the age of seven due to a daily diet of three four-course meals. She suffered sexual abuse from a family friend, which caused her to eat even more, hoping that her tormentor would leave her alone if she was "fat and ugly." Connie suspected her sister Marsha was being abused as well - Marsha took the opposite route and became anorexic.
Connie's weight ballooned throughout her teens, stabilising at 22 stone in her twenties. She received another blow at 31; the death of her father from a heart attack pushed her down the slippery slope of extreme comfort eating and by 36 her weight had doubled.
Morbidly obese and close to death, Connie stopped ovulating and suffered internal haemorrhaging. In hospital, Connie was shocked to discover she now weighed a hefty 582 pounds - over 40 stone. She realised that if she didn't take drastic action then she would die. But she was too big to exercise and was beyond dieting. Even the doctors seemed to have given up on her, until she met Dr Hazem Elaniny, an expert in the morbidly obese. Dr Elaniny advised radical surgery. Despite being told she had a 50% chance of dying on the operating table, Connie took the risk.
The first operation removed most of her stomach and much of her excess skin. From then on, Connie couldn't eat more than a few mouthfuls at a time, no matter how hungry she became. The length of the operation meant she was unconscious for 11 hours, and was at risk of getting an infection on her exposed flesh.
On waking, in agonising pain, Connie's life was turned upside down once again with the tragic news that her now estranged sister Marsha had died in a car crash. Distraught, much of Connie's emotional energy was taken up with dealing with this loss instead of getting better herself. However the tragedy also left her as the adoptive mother of Marsha's three year-old son Colin, which gave her some extra impetus to become healthy. She wanted to give him the start in life that she never had.
The weight loss following her operation left Connie with "wings"- over 20 pounds' worth of sagging, stretched skin from a body that had lost a staggering 70 % of its original weight. Returning to LA, she underwent a second, even more agonising operation to remove the excess weight from her thighs which required 400 stitches and a major blood transfusion. Some of her skin began to rot, as it had been denied blood flow for so long, and a skin graft was needed.
In order to morph into a svelte size 12, Connie now needs to have 20 pounds of excess skin removed. The programme follows the incredible shrinking woman as she travels to London for a consultation with surgeon Paul Harris. Will he clear her for more surgery, removing excess fat on her arms, and giving her breast transplants? If she is turned down, how will Connie take the news? Her journey to physical and psychological wellbeing is just beginning...
These days Connie reaps the cash rewards of her traumatic struggle by promoting her self-help book and products such as Queasy Pops and Chocoleans, among other quick-fix solutions to weight loss.
NOTE:
If you have a weak Stomach, you may not watch the movie. It has graphic flesh cutting on how the Doctors remove the fats from her body, ...again very GRAPHIC.
How would it feel to shed two thirds of your body weight? "Like walking through gelatin," says Connie Jackson, the Nashville woman whose body symbolises the nightmarish events of her life and her agonising quest to stitch things back into shape.
This instalment of Five's groundbreaking documentary series follows Connie's quest to totally transform her body through surgery. As if the intense pain and life-threatening complications involved in undergoing highly invasive surgery weren't enough, a series of cruel twists of fate turn Connie's life upside-down and, almost literally, inside out.
At 45 stone Connie was reclusive, plagued with health problems and close to death. She needed a radical solution. After extreme stomach-reduction surgery, she managed to lose a staggering 30 stone but was left with sagging, baggy skin which had lost all of its elasticity. Connie has had enough of the gelatin. She has decided to go under the knife again for more life-threatening surgery to get rid, once and for all, of her former "fat girl" self.
"My life has been hell for 40 years”, says Connie. "I finally feel normal – and now I want to look normal."
Connie was obese by the age of seven due to a daily diet of three four-course meals. She suffered sexual abuse from a family friend, which caused her to eat even more, hoping that her tormentor would leave her alone if she was "fat and ugly." Connie suspected her sister Marsha was being abused as well - Marsha took the opposite route and became anorexic.
Connie's weight ballooned throughout her teens, stabilising at 22 stone in her twenties. She received another blow at 31; the death of her father from a heart attack pushed her down the slippery slope of extreme comfort eating and by 36 her weight had doubled.
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Morbidly obese and close to death, Connie stopped ovulating and suffered internal haemorrhaging. In hospital, Connie was shocked to discover she now weighed a hefty 582 pounds - over 40 stone. She realised that if she didn't take drastic action then she would die. But she was too big to exercise and was beyond dieting. Even the doctors seemed to have given up on her, until she met Dr Hazem Elaniny, an expert in the morbidly obese. Dr Elaniny advised radical surgery. Despite being told she had a 50% chance of dying on the operating table, Connie took the risk.The first operation removed most of her stomach and much of her excess skin. From then on, Connie couldn't eat more than a few mouthfuls at a time, no matter how hungry she became. The length of the operation meant she was unconscious for 11 hours, and was at risk of getting an infection on her exposed flesh.
On waking, in agonising pain, Connie's life was turned upside down once again with the tragic news that her now estranged sister Marsha had died in a car crash. Distraught, much of Connie's emotional energy was taken up with dealing with this loss instead of getting better herself. However the tragedy also left her as the adoptive mother of Marsha's three year-old son Colin, which gave her some extra impetus to become healthy. She wanted to give him the start in life that she never had.
The weight loss following her operation left Connie with "wings"- over 20 pounds' worth of sagging, stretched skin from a body that had lost a staggering 70 % of its original weight. Returning to LA, she underwent a second, even more agonising operation to remove the excess weight from her thighs which required 400 stitches and a major blood transfusion. Some of her skin began to rot, as it had been denied blood flow for so long, and a skin graft was needed.In order to morph into a svelte size 12, Connie now needs to have 20 pounds of excess skin removed. The programme follows the incredible shrinking woman as she travels to London for a consultation with surgeon Paul Harris. Will he clear her for more surgery, removing excess fat on her arms, and giving her breast transplants? If she is turned down, how will Connie take the news? Her journey to physical and psychological wellbeing is just beginning...
These days Connie reaps the cash rewards of her traumatic struggle by promoting her self-help book and products such as Queasy Pops and Chocoleans, among other quick-fix solutions to weight loss.
NOTE:
If you have a weak Stomach, you may not watch the movie. It has graphic flesh cutting on how the Doctors remove the fats from her body, ...again very GRAPHIC.
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