the skin on her arms had stretched and lost elasticity, leaving her with pouches of wobbly skin.
”I’d always have to buy a size larger in jackets just so my arms could fit in,’ she remembers. ‘I wanted to feel feminine and I wanted to look feminine.’
Convinced that no amount of gym-going would fix the problem, she traveled abroad to Belgium for surgery.
“It was a very, very nice clinic,’ she remembers. ‘The doctor told me what he was going to do and said he was used to working on women of color 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 that 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 due to 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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