(CNN) — Leah Rae Russell lost more than 200 pounds over a decade, but she says she wasn’t able to fully appreciate her accomplishment until she took a final step: tightening and removing about 3 ...
She also needed a more extensive kind of tummy tuck, called a fleur-de-lis, which cuts the abdominal skin from hip to hip and pelvis to breastbone to remove excess skin and tighten the underlying ...
Her insurance would have paid to remove only part of her extra skin so ultimately, she decided to do it without insurance. She took out a loan to afford it, paying $13,000 for both procedures. Russell ...