The girl dubbed 'Britain's fattest teenager' now regrets having the surgery that led her to lose 22 stone.

Malissa Jones was just 17 years old and weighed in at 34 stone when she became the youngest Briton to have a gastric bypass.

Two years on and Malissa now claims the weight loss has left her miserable and she now wishes she never had the £10,000 NHS operation.

'I know it sounds ungrateful, but I preferred my body when I was fat,' the 19-year-old said.

'At least it was firm and curvy, not droopy and saggy. I had nice firm arms - now the skin just hangs and I have to cover them up because they look so awful.'

Malissa has dropped from a size 30 dress size to a size 16 but hides her new shape under long-tops and trousers to hide the folds of excess skin left behind.

'The NHS won't remove the skin and I'll never manage to save £20,000 to have it done privately,' she explained.

'The surgery might have saved my life, but I wish I'd never had it done.'

Malissa's situation had indeed become desperate before she decided to have the radical surgery

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The morbidly obese youngster had her first suspected heart attack when she was just 15 years old.

'I was diagnosed with angina, a form of coronary heart disease brought on by my weight,' she said.

Although she attempted numerous diets and was prescribed special diet pills, she couldn't stop herself feasting on 15,000 calories a day, despite hating her huge frame and 48EE bra size.

'I was only happy when I was eating,' she told Closer Magazine.

'A day's food included about eight Mars bars, 10 packets of crisps, several sandwiches and takeaways from the local chippie. I spent all my pocket money on food.'

Malissa grew up in a family who all had weight problems. Her mother Dawn, 46, is now 16st but weighed 10st more before having her own gastric band fitted.

Malissa went under the knife after doctors said her weight was crushing her internal organs.

The bypass shrunk Malissa's stomach so she could only consume small meals. For the first three months she consumed only fruit juice and gravy and lost two stone a month.

At first her confidence soared. The teenager got a full time job in administration and wore high-street clothing, but as her weight continued to plummet so did her mood.

She said she began to dread the thought of undressing in front of boyfriends because she has 'more wrinkles than a 90-year-old.'

'I feel so upset,' she said.

'I hoped being slimmer would mean I could wear a bikini and go swimming, but I'm too ashamed of my body.

'The thought of living with a body like this for the rest of my life is just devastating.'

Malissa was prescribed anti-depressants and gave up work after suffering from stomach pains and constant diarrhoea.
Closer magazine

The full interview is in this week's Closer magazine

'Although my heart's healthier and life expectancy is normal, some days I'm too ill to get out of bed,' she said.'

My immune system is really weak so it's hard to fight infections and I have stomach pains and constant diarrhoea.'

After she miscarried a baby at 15 weeks, Malissa was distraught when doctors told her she is unlikely to carry a baby full term as her scarred stomach can't take the pressure of a growing uterus.

'I hope people read this and realise gastric surgery isn't a miracle cure.

'I wish I'd lost the weight through exercise and healthy eating. I know this operation was life-saving, but the complications I'm suffering now might still kill me. The truth is I feel I'm no better off than I was before.'

However her mother said: 'I don't regret encouraging her to have it, the bottom line is Malissa would have died if she didn't lose the weight.'

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Please is the second pix the 'after surgery' pix?
If yes, She sure has wasted some money! Or was the surgery free?

From the story,NHS paid for the surgery but won't pay the £20,000 needed to remove the excess skin!!
We tax payers have tried for her now, lol

poor sweet heart, looking so young and innocent under an old wrinkled skin

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what the hell is the skin that is coming under the side of her bra in the 2nd pic!?

on the first pic she looked fat, on the second one she look HIDEOUS!!!!!


just a quick fix that didnt completely solve the problem. now she needs to find 20000quid to get rid of the excess skin.

after a gastric bypass, you're supposed to have more surgery to remove the excess skin.

This is a well known fact and the NHS sould step up, or if they cant, then at least refer her abroad for the surgery.

After she miscarried a baby at 15 weeks, Malissa was distraught when doctors told her she is unlikely to carry a baby full term as her scarred stomach can't take the pressure of a growing uterus.

'I hope people read this and realise gastric surgery isn't a miracle cure.

eyah.

but why was she carrying a baby at 17?

tpia.:

eyah.

but why was she carrying a baby at 17?

i guess because she had sex and wanted to keep the baby.

come on, get real. babies having babies is happening all over the world INCLUDING 9ja.

Gastic Bypass is like a forced starvation.

Why didnt she excersise while she was dropping the weight?

Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Gross . . . . . Totally gross

OMG! poor gurl

It'll take a lot of surgery to remove all that skin, really feel sorry for her.

mr brown the tender hearted.

^^^ Lol, Clem. It's been a while----hope all's well with you, my brother and Junior?

Poor girl, the NHS has to finish what they started. Do the surgery for her at a subsidized rate.

hmm we all are doing great. howz life wid u??

i havent forgotten the chocolate u promised me.

This is really an eyesaw,i feel seriously sorry for her,i will advice she tries DR 90210,those doctors are the bomb when it comes to this type of surgeries,

chrisrock:

This is really an eyesaw,i feel seriously sorry for her,i will advice she tries DR 90210,those doctors are the bomb when it comes to this type of surgeries,

yeah and they dont come CHEAP too

lycan_net:

'At least it was firm and curvy, not droopy and saggy. I had nice firm arms - now the skin just hangs and I have to cover them up because they look so awful.'

Firm and curvy at 34 stone? Nice firm arms? Where did she get that from?

she should have tried working out before going through the surgery route.

maybe the doctors should have stapled her dumb mouth after stapling her stomach.

Thats what happens when you let yourself go!

Its a pity.

very ungrateful kid, atleast her situation is no longer life-threatening, some will give a arm & leg to be able to have that operation on the nhs
no amount of exercise will get rid of the skin, she will have to cut it off

sure feel her pain , imagine doing a strip tease or a lapdance in dat skin ,yuuuuk!dat chic needs the best csmetic surgeons to do damage control or else

Nezed:

Please is the second pix the 'after surgery' pix?
If yes, She sure has wasted some money! Or was the surgery free?

lycan_net:

'I was only happy when I was eating,' she told Closer Magazine.

Damn - I didn't spot this bit. That's how it all starts.

lycan_net:

'A day's food included about eight Mars bars, 10 packets of crisps, several sandwiches and takeaways from the local chippie. I spent all my pocket money on food.'

And she wonders why she got so huge? That's a lot of snacking! 

She even has boyfriends

maybe NHS didn't pay because taking off the sagging skin is a cosmetic procedure versus losing the weight which was a health procedure.

but i have a question though. even if she had lost the weight naturally (which would have taken years), won't she still have the same sagging skin as a result? 

Oyinda, if she'd lost weight naturally, over a longer period (years) she'd have had little or no sagging skin. Losing weight fast doesn't give the stretched skin time to tighten.

Wasn't an option for her though, as she just couldn't seem to stop eating.

in my own opinion i think she's very grumpy and ungrateful, she's lucky the NHS did it free 4 her and potentially saved her life b'cos she wouldn't have lived long if she didin't have dat sugery, she can work and earn some money which she could use for d other sugery. I don't see any reason y she should be complaining, since she can now do many things she was unable to do before. By the way wat kind of curves was she talking about,is it fat over stretched marked skin? or wat, SHE'S UNGRATEFUL!!!!!!!! case closed