We have followed Tina Malone’s dramatic body transformation – from losing more than half her body weight after a gastric band operation to having 11lbs of excess skin removed. Now she has dropped to a size 8 and looks like a new woman.
“I weighed myself this morning and was running around the house looking for my camera to take a picture of the scales!” she exclaims. “I’ve not been that weight since I was eight years old!”
But the journey to confidence hasn’t been easy for 5ft 1 Tina, who was a size 28 before having a gastric band fitted in 2010. Following her extreme weight loss, she then went through four gruelling ops, totalling 14 hours and over £50,000, to have almost a stone of excess skin removed last year.
Despite everything she’s been through, Tina admits she’s not done with going under the knife just yet. “I’m now really fixated on my thighs – the skin is saggy and I just want to get rid of it,” she admits.
“The other thing I want to fix is my piggy nose – I want a nose like Janet or LaToya Jackson. I’ll get the excess skin removed from my legs and a nose job done at the same time in a couple of months and that will be it.”
Read the full interview with Tina in this week’s Closer.