300 stitches, 10lb removed, and unendurable pain ... How one woman survived the full body lift

For many it is the last resort. The body lift is the most extreme transformation of the body that cosmetic surgery can provide.

The risks are high, and this major surgery is carried out only on the morbidly obese who have lost a large amount of weight either through dieting or surgery and want to remove swathes of excess skin.

Even so, the four-hour procedure is regularly seen on cosmetic makeover TV shows, such as Channel 4's 10 Years Younger, where the results are revealed in less than an hour.

The true recovery time is far more prolonged and involved almost a month bedbound in agony, according to Debbie Murray, a 52-year-old from Walton on the Hill, Surrey, who opted for the body lift in May last year. Click here for full article.