Chip Chick
“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.
