Olivia’s shock body transformation!
The MAFS bride’s dropped a whopping four dress sizes, thanks to surgery
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 Australia 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,” the school administrator from New South Wales tells Woman’s Day. “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 fifties to look and feel healthy?’”
DRAMATIC RESULT
Weighing 95 kilos 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,” she recalls. “It was gross – all my bones were hanging out.”
After having her gall bladder removed, Olivia says, “My 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 insists. “If I go for a walk with my friends, they aren’t concerned about me making it up the hill or not.”
She adds that it’s improved her dating life too.
“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 s**t because I thought that’s what I deserved,” says Olivia. “Now I’m attracting betterquality men, but I’m definitely still a bit body dysmorphic and don’t think I deserve an excellent man.”
However, she hopes she’s found exactly that in her groom, plumber Jackson Lonie, 30, who she insists is “a really lovely match” and “made me feel beautiful on our wedding day”.