Star of 1000-lb Best Friends Vanessa Cross has showed off her 'fat balls' as she prepares to have life-changing skin removal surgery.
The 44-year-old, who at her heaviest weighed 446lbs (31 stone), is waiting for the operation after dropping 98lbs (7 stone) in the last 12 months.
During a recent visit to the doctor’s where they checked to see if her body was ready for surgery, the TLC star joked her excessive skin made her look like she had a ‘penis and balls’.
After previously being turned down for surgery as she hadn’t lost enough weight yet, Vannessa was relieved to learn it wouldn’t be long until her excess skin would be removed.
Examining Vannessa, the doctor told her: “You’ve lost a lot of weight. This is hard to carry around. I’m just doing one side. I haven’t even done the other side yet. You know, this is a good 20lbs.”
As the doctor held up sections of the skin on her stomach, Vanessa said: “Even you holding that gives me relief.”
Asking Vannessa to help hold some of the excess skin up, she joked: “Now we see the penis and the balls!”
As the shot cuts back to Vannessa in the studio, she explains that since she’s lost the weight her vagina is “all just skin”.
Grabbing the skin on her arm to show viewers what she means, she added: “It looks like I have a three inch penis with big fat balls.”
As the doctor explained what they will do during the procedure and what the end results would be, an excited Vannessa exclaimed: “I’ll look like I’m a girl again.”
The life-changing procedure is major surgery and the ‘lower body lift’ will effectively cut her body in half to remove all the excess skin.
Vannessa joked that even with the skin lifted back up she “still didn’t have a butt”, but the doctor told her: “You have a cute little butt.”
Although Vannessa is adamant she wants to press ahead with the surgery, she said she is “scared” to go through with it.
Speaking to the cameras in the teaser clip shared on TLC’s Instagram page, she said: “They are going to have to cut all the way around. Right now it’s kind of incomprehensible because of the single fact I don’t understand cutting my entire body in half.
“I’m going to do it, don’t get me wrong, I know that it’s a procedure, but when she talks to me about it, it’s scary.”
TLC called the scene a “monumental moment” for Vanessa as fans also showed support in the comments.
One wrote: “I can’t even imagine how uncomfortable it must be to carry the weight of all that excess skin around all the time! She must dream about her surgery. She is such a lovely woman.”
Another said: “I feel so sorry for her. That’s a lot of excess skin. Going to be excruciating pain.”
“So awesome that she did reach her weight loss goals! Even when they have surgery it’s still not easy,” a third chimed in.
A fourth added: “Didn’t know I could be so proud of someone I never knew but she did a great thing, not only for herself but her family. She’s setting a great example that you can always turn things around.”
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