List and Cost of" Mama June's" WLS-Related Surgeries

Just ran across this:

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Her gastric sleeve surgery (approximately $16,800), breast lift (approximately $5,000), tummy tuck (approximately $10,000) and skin removal surgery on the arms and neck (approximately $20,000) could have cost her upwards of $50,000.

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Like her or hate her, you have to admit she is helping get the word out on WLS and PS big time ..

Paul- but not in positive ways, I am sorry to say. Every "headline" I see has a different starting weight. I think the latest one was something like 452 lbs. it used to be 300. Then it said she weighs 200 and wears a size 4. Huh?

And everyone who believes SHE paid for surgeries, with $$$$ SHE EARNED, raise your hand....

You are an intelligent attorney. I know YOU aren't falling for this crap!!

Hi Gina .. LTNS

That's interesting, as, until now, the only starting figure I've seen for her is 460 lbs., which is the same as I was (which is why I remember it). What I don't understand is why they won't give her current weight, only her dress size (i.e. 4), which to us guys who are clueless about that female size system doesn't mean a thing ..

Mama June does insist in the article that I took that excerpt from that she in fact did pay for her own surgeries, which very likely could be the case with all of the $$s I'm sure she has made through her other shows, publicity, etc. to date .. but who knows .. I do tend to give people the benefit of a doubt, sometimes too much .. heck i thought that stuff on the Jerry Springer Show was all legit until recently ..

Wait... the Jerry Springer show isn't real??!!

I qui****ching it when the expletives got so bad, every other word is Bleep Bleep Bleep... just let them say the words already!

The most believable report is that she weighed 352 pounds, lost 141 and now weighs 211 pounds and is size 12. If she paid for her surgeries, I am sure they made the money back from her TV show.

She must be very tall then if she is a 12 at that weight. I was in a 16 at 199.

I was just thinking the same thing. I still wear a lot of size 12's at 143!

Yep. Sizing is misleading. I'm a solid 12 in any brand and I'm 178. In dresses I'm in a 10. I have one that fits and is a size 6. I have size 8 blazers and jackets that fit. I'm in a small or medium top. I'd never call myself a size 6 even though I have a dress in that size. I go by my largest size and for me that is pant size (and always will be) and I'm a solid 12.

I'm 5'11" and I was a small 12 at that weight...

See that makes sense, though I think I read that she is my height 5'4".

All that surgery and she still has a tummy? and (pardon me please) a neck like that?

You guys on OH that have had plastics all look strikingly beautiful AND fit and such. Also, I agree with WD. I am a size 10 or 12 now. If I added 40 pounds I'd be lucky to get into a 16.

I feel mean even commenting on this but it's not even CLOSE to what I thought her big reveal would be. I hope it's helped her self-esteem to the point where she quits dating the pedophile boyfriend and finds a decent guy.


edited to add: I just re-read this and realized how snarky and pathetic I sound. I'd delete it but I hate when people delete so I'm leaving it here - but with a sincere apology. I don't need to be commenting on anyone else's body. Public figure or no.

I am 68 years old and grew up in the 1950's. People were much slimmer than they are now.

Your dress size was half of your waist size. At 18, I weighed 120 pounds had a 24 inch waist and wore a size 12. Most women had a 30 or 32 inch waist and wore size 14 or 16. The glamorous film star, Marilyn Monroe wore size 14.

My mother was a size 18 and that was considered very heavy. It meant a 36 inch waist. She would diet down to a size 14, but always gained it back. She baked fresh loaves of homemade bread every day, We had ice creams, home baked pies, cakes and cookies all of the time.

I was in a size 14 when I first started Weigh****chers in 1972. I got down to 120 again, but strangely fit into size 10's. A few years later, at 120, I could wear size 5.

Now I wear a size 4 at 136 pounds. It is interesting how sizes changed through the years.

We are close in age and I agree with amount of weight and clothing sizes changing greatly through the years...vanity sizing created per manufacturing and ? designers to make us feel better and make purchases??

Just on the clothes size thing -- I'm about 6.5 months post op. Found some older clothes at the bottom of a drawer - size 14 skirts from the late 1980s and early 1990s when I first started practicing law. By today's sizing, I'm wearing a 12 for the most part as a skirt or pants. While I can get my hips into these skirts, I cannot button them at the waists - I know when I bought these items I was probably 15-20 pounds lighter than I am right now. So @WhiteDove, you are so right on the messing around with the sizes of stuff.

See, that's what's confusing to me (and probably a lot of other guys) about dress sizes .. so a Size 4 means you have an 8" waist???