I lost 17 stone but it ruined my sex life – I have to roll up my own boobs

2023-06-07

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A former junk food addict who lost a whopping 17 stone has said her sex life has been ruined by the noisy "flapping sounds" made by her loose skin.

Scarlet Corsi, from Birmingham, Alabama, US, tipped the scale at 28 stone after gorging on a diet of biscuits, chicken strips, potato wedges and energy drinks followed by leftover gas station food for dinner.

The 36-year-old was targeted by cruel bullies growing up and turned to the junk food to fill a "void of loneliness".

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But her binge-eating soon turned into a £9,000-a-year habit which saw her scarf down a "sickening" amount of food as well as spending two and half years guzzling 12 packs of fizzy drinks a day.

When a series of humiliating incidents saw her size 28 body too big to fit into rides at Universal Studios, Scarlet finally decided to make the life-changing decision to undergo gastric band surgery.

But despite dropping nine dress sizes, Scarlet has been left unhappy with her weight loss — which she says has turned her from "one monster to the next" after her loose skin has left her looking like she's "had a litter of puppies".

The excess skin, which weighs up to two stone, has been affecting every aspect of her life, with the heavy folds causing painful rashes, chafing and infections.

But Scarlet says it's also drastically impacted her sex life with partner Justin King, 34.

She said: "It's really affected my intimacy and romantic life with my partner. It doesn't matter how I turn, bend or lean, I've got something hanging.

"I don't enjoy [being intimate] because the whole time I'm horrified of my own body. I make flapping sounds and all kinds of weird sounds and squishes.

"My breasts look like I've had a litter of puppies or something. They're horribly saggy. I have to roll it up and tuck it in my bra and at any time it's spilling out the top or bottom.

"Or if you were to be the one on top, it's just nothing but saggy, melting skin and you know your partner loves you but you know to see it is probably horrifying."

Scarlet is so embarrassed by the loose skin she says she'd rather be asexual.

She added: "I feel ashamed that we both have to see it and guilty that he's stuck with me, it feels like he gets punished for loving me. I think 'you don't have to have someone that looks melted'.

"You feel like it's an act of charity on their behalf. It really sucks to be this young and think you'd rather be asexual at this point so no one has to look at you."

Scarlet's struggles with her confidence started when she was a child after "fatphobic" bullies began making oinking noises as she ate and shouting "run fatty run," in reference to the film Forrest Gump.

Recalling the vile bullying, Scarlet said: "My whole life I was bullied because I was big.

"They'd say 'you're so fat you stepped on a rainbow and Skittles popped out', they'd call me 'spare tyre' and any time I'd run in gym boys would be behind me going 'boom, boom, boom', like I was causing an earthquake.

"They called me 'wide load' and said that 'I'm so fat I should eat myself to death and get it over with', so they wouldn't have to look at me."

But it didn't stop there, Scarlet added: "Words cut but I was physically bullied. I got slammed around, tripped and hit.

"This older girl had an arrow for shooting deer. She brought the blade [on the bus] and would stab me in the leg with it when I got on.

"The bullying made me feel horrible. It made the world a really scary place to be."

In 2018 Scarlet spiralled into a pit of grief after her mum passed away and her marriage ended.

The huge loss sent her into a cycle of comfort eating, where she regularly chomped down on huge bags of food that petrol stations hadn't sold that day, including burgers, chicken strips and corndogs.

After reaching her heaviest weight she even started struggling to breathe in her sleep and was forced to rely on a CPAP machine to keep her alive.

And in adulthood the cruel comments didn't stop, with Scarlet revealing it only became "more ruthless" as she got older.

But Scarlet's rock bottom came during a trip to Universal Studios when she was turned away from rides due to her size.

She said: "The most horrific thing happened not once, but twice [at Universal Studios]. My friend and I waited in a line for two hours to ride two different rides, I finally got there and I'm too fat for the rides.

"They say 'it's ok, we have a larger seat for our bigger customers. Get the larger seat!' and I'm too fat for that one too. I got laughed out of there by everybody, it was humiliating."

Deciding she'd had enough, Scarlet saw a doctor and in 2019 she was referred for weight loss surgery.

Before the op, she cut her food intake in half and began exercising to lose weight and since the successful surgery, her lifestyle has drastically changed, with Scarlet switching out her junk food habits for a high protein keto diet.

But while the weight loss has improved her health, the excess skin has left her still left her hating her body.

She said: "I feel punished for all my hard work and I've changed from one monster to the next because of my skin. I'm still walking around ashamed of my body and can't be proud of it.

"When I'm in the bath or any kind of water, my skin bobs and floats around and is crazy looking. It's like a jellyfish effect, it really is, I don't know how else to describe it.

"People think it's a vanity issue, it's so much more than that. It's causing health problems, the skin on my butt that hangs is so heavy it's hurting my nerves and making it hard to bend over and sit upright."

Becoming desperate to have the loose skin removed, Scarlet set up an OnlyFans account to raise money for the op but has only made £240 selling nudes.

Now she's set up a GoFundMe account in hopes of raising the £7,000 she needs for the surgery.

"I just want to know what it's like to be confident in myself for once. What I'm looking forward to most after having my surgery is looking normal for once," she said.

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