A woman who was relentlessly bullied for being overweight has lost 17 stone only to be left in agony due to an unexpected side effect.
Scarlet Corsi, 36, said she was a chubby child who was cruelly bullied by classmates who called her 'spare tyre', tripped her up in hallways and even stabbed her with a hunting arrow.
She said she grew up feeling publicly hated and became isolated as a result, and after turning to comfort eating she weighed 28 stone.
Scarlet said: "My whole life I was bullied because I was big.
"They'd say 'you're so fat you stepped on a rainbow and Skittles popped out', they'd call me 'spare tyre' and any time I'd run in gym boys would be behind me going 'boom, boom, boom', like I was causing an earthquake.
"They called me 'wide load' and said that 'I'm so fat I should eat myself to death and get it over with', so they wouldn't have to look at me.
"Words cut but I was physically bullied. I got slammed around, tripped and hit.
"This older girl had an arrow for shooting deer. She brought the blade [on the bus] and would stab me in the leg with it when I got on.
"The bullying made me feel horrible. It made the world a really scary place to be."
Scarlet's health worsened in 2018 when her mum died and her marriage ended, and she was soon spending almost £9,000-a-year on her binge-eating habits.
At her worst, she ate big bags of food that petrol stations hadn't sold that day, including burgers, chicken strips and corndogs.
She also never drank water and had 12 packs of soda a day for around two and a half years.
At her largest in 2019, she visited Universal Studios where her 'worst nightmare' became reality as she was too big to even fit in the seat and was laughed at by fellow visitors.
Scarlet added: "A gentleman came up to me when I was minding my own business and asked, 'do you not feel ashamed for being this fat?'.
"The most horrific thing happened not once, but twice [at Universal Studios]. My friend and I waited in a line for two hours to ride two different rides, I finally got there and I'm too fat for the rides.
"They say 'it's ok, we have a larger seat for our bigger customers. Get the larger seat!' and I'm too fat for that one too. I got laughed out of there by everybody, it was humiliating.
"The second one was a theatre experience and the seat belt wouldn't click. It wouldn't even go halfway around me and they asked me to leave.
"I stood up and ran off and everyone's laughing. I was crying and humiliated, it was so crushing. They spotlighted me in a dark theatre, it was my worst nightmare."
Scarlett from Birmingham, Alabama, US, saw a doctor in 2019 who referred her for weight loss surgery, but first, she had to lose weight by exercising more and cutting her food intake by half.
She's dropped a staggering nine dress sizes - but now she's gone from 'one monster to the next' as a result of her loose skin.
Her heavy folds of empty skin cause rashes, chafing and infections, make fitting into clothes and exercising difficult, but have also impacted things in the bedroom with partner Justin King, 34, as it looks like she's 'had a litter of puppies'.
Now she's trying to save £7,000 to have the excess skin surgically sorted out, and as 'desperate times caused for desperate measures', she set up an OnlyFans account - but made just £240..
Scarlet said: "I feel punished for all my hard work and I've changed from one monster to the next because of my skin.
"I'm still walking around ashamed of my body and can't be proud of it.
"When I'm in the bath or any kind of water, my skin bobs and floats around and is crazy looking. It's like a jellyfish effect, it really is, I don't know how else to describe it.
"People think it's a vanity issue, it's so much more than that. It's causing health problems, the skin on my butt that hangs is so heavy it's hurting my nerves and making it hard to bend over and sit upright."I just want to know what it's like to be confident in myself for once. What I'm looking forward to most after having my surgery is looking normal for once.
"It's really affected my intimacy and romantic life with my partner. It doesn't matter how I turn, bend or lean, I've got something hanging.
"I don't enjoy [being intimate] because the whole time I'm horrified of my own body. I make flapping sounds and all kinds of weird sounds and squishes.
"My breasts look like I've had a litter of puppies or something. They're horribly saggy. I have to roll it up and tuck it in my bra and at any time it's spilling out the top or bottom.
"Or if you were to be the one on top, it's just nothing but saggy, melting skin and you know your partner loves you but you know to see it is probably horrifying.
"I feel ashamed that we both have to see it and guilty that he's stuck with me, it feels like he gets punished for loving me. I think 'you don't have to have someone that looks melted'.
"You feel like it's an act of charity on their behalf. It really sucks to be this young and think you'd rather be asexual at this point so no one has to look at you."
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