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…what he was going to do and said he was used to working on women of colour so I felt really calm.”

But when she emerged from surgery, she was horrified by the results. “I had the scarring to prove that I’d had this surgery but the actual size of my arms still looked the same,” she reveals. “I was told by the surgeon that that was normal and I wouldn’t see any difference for a few weeks.”

A consultant and plastic surgeon, Dr Arnstein has since helped Marcia put her botched body right, courtesy of a two-hour operation which involved removing 250g of fat – all of which should have already been removed by the first doctor.

Speaking after the surgery, a thrilled Marcia said it had helped her regain some of the confidence lost as a result of the botched surgery.

“I can wear feminine clothes now and I can show my arms with pride,’ she adds. ‘They look really good and I feel really, really good.”

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My Story: When Post Weight Loss Skin Surgery Goes Wrong  was originally published on blackdoctor.org

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