Woman’s ovarian cyst ‘weight of seven newborn babies’

A WOMAN lost a third of her bodyweight after surgery to remove a 26kg ovarian cyst - the weight of seven newborn babies.

Despite multiple negative pregnancy tests, doctors insisted Keely Favell must be pregnant as her stomach grew in size.

When asked questions about baby due dates, she spared people’s embarrassment by playing along.

But the 28-year-old believed herself to be “just fat”.

Ms Favell, from Swansea, started gaining weight in 2014.

I’ve always been chunky, but over the course of a couple of years, I gradually got this tummy,” she said.

“It crept up so slowly that

I didn’t know anything was wrong - I just thought I was putting on timber.

I’ve been with my partner Jamie Gibbins for 10 years and we did wonder a few times if I was pregnant - but we did home tests and they always ruled it out.”

She said it was “so embarrassing” explaining she was not pregnant I’d go along with it to spare everyone the blushes.”

After blacking out in her office admin job, Ms Favell plucked up the courage to see a GP in 2016, who said she must be pregnant despite blood negative tests. “Looking at me, anyone would have thought I was nine months gone.

It wasn’t the first time I’d been mistaken for an expectant mum... People had seen me waddling around, carrying this lump, and I’d been asked a few times when I was due.”

Still believing Ms Favell to be pregnant, her GP referred her for an ultrasound scan in January last year. “I was lying there with Jamie beside me as the radiologist moved the probe over my tummy. I saw her eyes widen in horror, but the screen was just blank. “The look on her face said it all - something was wrong, and when she said she had to get a consultant I started to panic. Jamie did his best to reassure me but I felt paralysed with fear.”