'I wouldn't suggest surgery at all – I will always have these scars'

A MUM says that she “regrets” getting £10k weight-loss surgery and wishes she had taken injections instead - after the surgery left her “throwing up lumps of flesh”.

- BY SWNS, MIRANDA PELL

Sofia Alessia, 28, gained weight during and after her first pregnancy when she went up to a size 16 from being a size 10. She reached 16 stone and decided to get a gastric sleeve surgery in the UK as a “quick fix” after struggling to lose weight.

But after the surgery, the mum-of-one was left “constantly throwing up lumps of flesh”, and was unable to keep any fluids or food down.

She had to be treated for pneumonia and blood clots in her lungs before then going to a gastric bypass fix her issues. After that, she developed sepsis and has now been left with two hernias - and is still in constant agony.

Despite losing seven stone, Sofia wishes she hadn't rushed into surgery and waited for weight loss jabs to be approved in the UK.

Sofia, an influencer, from Littleborough, said: “I’m still in pain every single day. I feel ‘drunk’ a lot. On bad days I can’t get out of bed. I rushed it and I wished I'd waited and done Mounjaro.”

Before becoming a mum, Sofia said she “easily maintained” a size 10 figure, but she gained weight in 2019 after the birth of her daughter, Ayla-Valentina, now aged four.

She said that she began bingeing on family-sized packets of crisps and a multipacks of Kinder buenos, and soon grew to a size 16.