Woman who lost more than 160kg undergoes surgery to get rid of excess skin

A little over a month ago, the woman posted a viral TikTok video that received more than 30 million views.

A visibly emotional Parent tells her viewers: “In four days, I am having abdominal plastic surgery to remove my hanging apron stomach. You can see it hangs down to my knees.

"This is what it looks like when I sit down, and it makes me look bigger than I actually am.”

She added: “It’s embarrassing, and it’s shameful, but I try to focus on the fact that I’m a weight loss warrior; I have worked really hard to save my own life.”

Shortly after the procedure, Parent posted an update in which she looked unrecognisable.

Teresa said: “So a little over a month ago, I posted a video that went viral sitting in this exact position showing you my hanging stomach that I had from losing 370 pounds.

“Since then, I had my abdominal plastic surgery, and I had hanging skin removed - 47 pounds of skin removed, and this is my body now.”

While pointing to her knees, Parent gleefully says she has a ‘lap’ now.

She revealed she would consume around 10,000 calories a day.

Teresa says she would eat a large pizza nearly every day and would regularly stop at fast food restaurants and chow down on food in her car.

"Then I would go home and eat triple-decker peanut butter sandwiches, grilled cheese sandwiches, and tons of chips, cookies, and junk food on a daily basis," she said.

But shortly after the teacher from Long Beach, California, suffered a heart attack, she knew she had to make a change.

She began exercising vigorously, altered her diet and even underwent successful gastric bypass surgery.

She told the outlet: "I have students and staff tell me 'you're so inspiring' and that's a really cool thing.

"I've spent most of my adult life trying to be invincible and now I want to inspire people."