I’m a mum-of-eight and my hips tripled in size after having kids…I was left looking like a boat and feel like jelly
A MUM has told how she was left feeling “embarrassed” when her hips “trippled in size” after giving birth to eight children.
Rubi, who is from Florida, explained how she had a “normal” body shape until she welcomed her fourth child into the world and was left looking like a “boat.”
The 39-year-old, who has five girls and three boys, was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition known as Adipose Hypertrophy, which can result in an overgrowth of fat cells that restrict toxins from circulating in the blood.
Rubi, who appeared on TLC’s ‘Awake Surgery’, explained how she desperately tried to get her figure back to the way it was, but when nothing worked, she decided to undergo surgery.
“Before my first three pregnancies my body was normal,” she recalls.
“After my fourth pregnancy I wouldn’t lose weight from my thigh area no matter how much exercising I would do, my hips stayed the same.
“I’m skinny up top but then where my hips are it’s wide.
“My hips feel like Jell-O, they feel very wiggly when I squeeze them, they move all over the place.
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“It’s a really weird feeling.”
Soon, Rubi’s confidence hit rock bottom and even the thought of getting married and wearing a wedding dress become all too much.
“Trying to find clothes to wear is frustrating, when I try a dress on I look like a boat,” Rubi says.
“I’ve been with my boyfriend almost 10 years, we’ve talked about getting married but I can’t see myself in a wedding dress because I feel so embarrassed about my thighs.”
At her lowest point, Rubi would try and hide her figure behind the till where she worked – but was left in tears when she overheard one customer saying: “Oh damn, that’s huge!”
Deciding to take action, she booked herself in for liposuction on both of her hips and then further surgery to remove the excess skin.
In total, a whopping four litres of fat was removed from Rubi’s body and she was so delighted with the results, she set to work planning her wedding.