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4 Nigerian Celebrities Who Underwent Weight Loss Surgery (Photos)

Weight is a very personal journey for everybody and trying to lose weight is a complicated journey that everybody has to navigate by themselves in consideration of their own bodies and desires. There are a number of different options available now to anybody trying to lose weight, but still, here in Nigeria, there still remains a stigma around people going under the knife to lose weight.

However, since comedian Real Warri Pikin opened up about going under the knife to lose weight, the conversation is once again in discourse. Real Warri Pikin isn’t the only celebrity to have undergone surgery to lose weight though. Today, we’ll be counting down 4 Nigerian celebrities who have undergone surgery to lose weight. Here they are.

1. Real Warri Pikin

Nigerian comedian Real Warri Pikin revealed that she actually underwent weight loss surgery earlier this year. Real Warri Pikin said in a video:

REAL WARRI PIKIN: So na Ikechukwu now dey tell me to say I must do a weight loss surgery because he does not want to lose me. It was such a difficult time for me.

This was like January 2023, I will cry, I went back to the gym, I will work out, I will eat right, eye go dey turn me because I no fit chop wetin I suppose to chop, it became a very difficult time for me, trying to make a decision to go on weight loss surgery so it could help me lose weight and be well.

And then I’m trying to do it naturally; everybody around me has made up their mind except me; it was such a difficult moment for me.

At the end of the day, I just woke up one day and said baby, I’m ready, let’s do this, and I took the most difficult decision of my life; I went on weight loss surgery.

2. Lepacious Bose

Actress and comedian Lepacious Bose is another person who surprised fans when she showed off her transformed body after weight loss. In her revelation, Lepacious Bose revealed that in addition to the workouts, she did a little bit of skin removal and surgery to help her get the look she wanted. Speaking about people’s judgements about that, she said:

LEPACIOUS BOSE: Whatever it is that you need to do to get to where you want to get to, it’s up to you. It’s funny how people think that surgery makes it easier, it does not. You still have to eat healthy, you still have to exercise. It’s not a shortcut.

3. Tonto Dikeh

Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh also underwent liposuction to battle tummy fat when she got tired of trying to burn it naturally. The actress said:

TONTO DIKEH: l have aggressively tried to burn my stubborn tummy fat, but it has not been easy. After my first Lipo, I was so careless with my healing process and I lost guard on my stomach. So it grew back and I decided to go for my liposuction again.

4. DEBY OSCAR

Nigerian content creator and influencer, Deby Oscar, also opened up about undergoing the same surgery that Real Warri Pikin did. She said in her own weight loss journey Youtube video:

DEBY OSCAR: A friend of mine told me she had weight loss surgery and when she told me I dismissed her because I was like I can do it on my own. But then she told me “I used to always think about my weight. I would wake up in the morning, feel disgusting, but now that I have lost the weight, I wake up in the morning and I am free”. She said that and then when she left I started thinking what do I have to lose? I’ve tried everything. I went vegan, I did one meal every 4 days, I tried Ozempic. Like what else do I actually have to lose? So I went for weight loss surgery and the type of weight loss surgery I got was the gastric sleeve.

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