A mum-of-six looks ‘unrecognisable’ after spending £13,000 on ‘mummy makeover’ surgeries in a bid to look 15 again – by shedding half her body weight. Chelsea Doyle had her first child at15 years old and after her sixth she’d gained five stone and crept up six dress sizes.
The 28-year-old self-confessed binge-eater gorged on as many as five takeaways a week – and even refused to leave the house while at her heaviest weight of 16st 7lbs. Chelsea decided enough was enough two years ago and splashed out £2,400 on gastric sleeve surgery in Turkey in a bid to regain her pre-baby body.
The full-time mum lost half her body weight [eight stone] within a year of the stomach-shrinking op in February 2023, but still felt insecure about her loose skin. Last year Chelsea spent £6,500 on a tummy tuck, liposuction and breast implants and uplift before spending another £4,000 on an arm and thigh lift in January.
She now weighs 8st 2lbs and has dropped from size 20 to a size 4, making her feel confident enough to wear crop tops and bikinis. Chelsea, from Bromley, South West London, said: “I’ve got six children and essentially had back-to-back labours. I didn’t lose the weight in between, I just gained and gained.
“I’d tried shakes, Slimming World, Weight Watchers – there wasn’t a diet out there that I hadn’t tried. I wanted to get back to my body pre-kids but I would gain it back as quickly as I lost it. I couldn’t stick to it.
“I didn’t want to go out, I didn’t feel comfortable wearing anything, I didn’t feel myself. I avoided going on holiday when I was big and I didn’t even want to take the children swimming. It was my biggest insecurity.I was a massive binge-eater. If I was depressed, I would eat and if I was happy, I would eat. I was eating four or five takeaways a week.
“It was like a food addiction. I wasn’t even hungry but I would just eat and eat.”
In December 2022, Chelsea researched weight-loss surgeries in Turkey and she underwent her gastric-sleeve operation just three weeks after paying for it. Chelsea lived off a liquid food diet when she returned home, shedding a stone in weight within the first week.
She claims the ‘mummy makeover’ surgeries that followed changed her life and that people don’t even recognise her. Chelsea said: “My confidence has come back now. I take my children out all the time now and I take them on holiday. I’m so much happier.I’m never out of breath or tired anymore, I’ve got so much more energy.Some people don’t even recognise me, they can’t believe what I look like. I wish I’d done it sooner.
“I’m wearing bikinis, crop tops, shorts and nice underwear now but I wouldn’t even look at them before. I went to Lanzarote in November and lived in a bikini but I would have never dreamt of doing that before the surgeries.
“People tell me how much younger I look. This surgery saved my life.”