Olivia’s shock body transformation!
The Married At First Sight bride has dropped a whopping four dress sizes
After struggling with her weight throughout her teens and being on a diet “every single day since I was 13 years old,” Married At First Sight bride Olivia Frazer, 28, took the drastic step of undergoing gastric sleeve surgery in 2016 when she was just 22.
“A family member had it about a year before I did. And they told me it was the best thing they’d ever done and I was like, ‘Well, why do I have to wait until I’m in my 50s to look and feel healthy?’” says the school administrator from the NSW Central Coast.
DRAMATIC RESULT
Weighing 95kg and wearing size 18 clothing before the surgery, Olivia says the results were dramatic, but a debilitating side effect of the procedure – gallstones – soon saw her weight plummet to a dangerous 45kg in 2017.
“The stomach pains meant I couldn’t eat. It was gross – all my bones were hanging out,” she tells Woman’s Day.
After having her gall bladder removed, Olivia says her “recovery was instant.
I think I ate a steak dinner as soon as it came out.”
Now 70kg and a 10-12 dress size, Olivia maintains her weight with regular exercise and a “healthy as possible” diet with the odd cheat meal.
And despite the dangerous complications, Olivia says she’s glad she had the gastric sleeve. “It’s changed my life for the better in every single way,” she says. “If I go for a walk with my friends, they aren’t concerned about me making it up the hill or not.” She also says it’s improved her dating life. “I didn’t feel confident enough to go for the really lovely guy – I’d go for the guy who was going to treat me like sh*t because I thought that’s what I deserved,” says Olivia. “Now I’m definitely attracting better quality men, [but] I’m definitely still a bit [body] dysmorphic and don’t think I deserve an excellent man.”
But she’s hoping she’s found just that in her groom, 30-year-old plumber Jackson Lonie, who she says is “a really lovely match” and “made me feel beautiful on our wedding day”.