Tarryn Vice, 30, from Kent dreaded looking and feeling fat and not being able to fit into her favourite new designer jeans.
I’ve always been a size 10 up top, but my generous thighs and hips made by bottom half a size 14 – 16 so I never dreamt of wearing skinny jeans and pencil skirts. I had tried a mixture of diets, running on treadmills, cutting out junk food, but nothing seemed to work. I was moaning about my thunder thighs to a girl at work who confessed she’d gone to Belgium a few years ago to have liposuction. She was thrilled with the results and gave me the number of the company that organised the trip, Let’s Face It Together, and I got in touch. Jenny and her team arranged for me to attend a “Tweakender” trip which meant I’d fly to Belgium with a small group of people, have the surgery, then spend a day and night in Antwerp before flying home. I thought it sounded brilliant and, at £1995 for 3 sites, it was so much cheaper than lipo in the UK.
I flew out to Belgium with my husband for support and started to feel prangs of excitement. I wasn’t even nervous when the surgeon swished black pen over my wobbly bits I was so excited about looking slim and an evenly shaped body. The operation took just over two hours and I came round surprisingly pain-free. I went back to the hotel to relax with the other girls and their partners. We had dinner and an early night and planned to do shopping the next day. I felt bruised and sore but the surgeon told me to keep active and to continue wearing the girdle to combat the swelling.
Over the next few weeks, I watched what I ate and wore the girdle religiously. Gradually, my lumps started to disappear and 12 weeks later I slipped into size 10 skinny jeans for the first time. It was an amazing feeling and Let’s Face It Together helped me turn my dream into a reality.
