She Went Behind Her Sister’s Back And Paid For Her 18-Year-Old Niece’s Tummy Tuck But Now She’s Wondering If She Made The Right Choice
A woman with an 18-year-old niece asked the internet to weigh in on her current situation. Her niece, named Jenny, experienced trauma as a child, which led her to eat emotionally and become obese.
She also was held back in school and suffered a lot of social problems. Jenny’s parents eventually got her the help she so desperately needed and through therapy, she got her emotional eating under control.
She also began to heal from the trauma she went through, but one thing still remained an enormous problem for her.
“Because they waited so long to take the problem seriously, after she lost the weight her skin didn’t bounce back and she was left with a saggy belly and protruding abdomen,” Jenny’s aunt said.
“She had a “double roll” belly where there’s a roll above and below the navel, and the bottom one tends to stick out in clothing.”
No matter what Jenny wore, it was obvious, and it’s something that really bothered her.
“Nothing she did would fix it. Her parents are very much anti-plastic surgery, and given that she was a teenager I totally get it. But she was miserable in her body,” her aunt continued.
So, every summer Jenny spends her break at her aunt’s beach house, and her aunt said she just adores getting to spend that time with Jenny.
“Over the years she would cry and cry and cry to me about how much she hated her stomach and how she just wishes she could look normal and her parents would just let her get a tummy tuck,” she explained.
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Last year, Jenny’s aunt made up her mind that for Jenny’s 18th birthday, she was going to gift her a tummy tuck.
She had one condition for the gift though; Jenny’s counselor needed to sign off on the surgery.
Jenny’s counselor said that they thought the surgery would help Jenny immensely, and so Jenny got her tummy tuck late last summer before going back to college.
“I can’t tell you how different she was,” Jenny’s aunt pointed out. “Confident, happy, she finally wore clothes that didn’t hide her body, the whole nine yards. She even asked out someone at the beach.”
“She came home for Spring Break and finally wore something that made her mom take notice, and I’m guessing mom saw the scar.”
“She hit the roof and started yelling at Jenny for what she did, asking her if she really spent her college money on something this frivolous, etc etc. Jenny came crying to me about it and I knew I couldn’t let her mom “blame” her, so I fessed up.”
Her sister is accusing her of basically being the devil, and someone who warped the way Jenny views herself.
Jenny’s aunt wrote that Jenny is the happiest she has been in her entire life, and she’s also the healthiest she has ever been.
The tummy tuck didn’t leave Jenny desiring to have more procedures on her body, and so she isn’t quite positive why her sister is so beyond angry with her.
She then admitted that she does understand that she did do this without her sister knowing and that plastic surgery isn’t a small thing to have done, but in the end, she did it for Jenny. She just wanted what was best for her niece.
Here’s what the internet had to say.
“You didn’t go behind your sister’s back, you helped your niece with something her mother refused to help with, a problem that the mom seems to have contributed to making.”
“Your niece turned to you for a reason: she trusts you and feels comfortable to vent to you emotionally, knowing she will have your full support.”
“Don’t feel bad for support someone’s choices that help them mentally and physically.”
“Plus as someone who is losing a lot of weight right now and has looked into the ‘after’, having loose skin removed is a fairly standard thing with big weight loss.”
“There’s only so much skin can bounce back even if you’re young and aside from how it looks, the creases and folds in loose skin can cause medical problems.”
“I like to watch a lot of trashy reality tv and one of the things I learned from a plastic surgery show was that there isn’t an exercise that can get rid of excess skin, especially if the weight was lost quite quickly. (I could be wrong though as my knowledge does come from reality shows!)”
You can read the rest of the advice the internet had for her here.
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