When the Fat Cells Are Removed Do They Develop Somewhere Else?

No new fats cells grow elsewhere but fat cells have a tremendous capacity to store fat.  The fat that is removed from one part of the body by liposuction will eventually find their way back to your body unless you change what you eat or how much exercise you do.  The fat that returns is more uniformly distributed than the fat say localized to the saddle bags.  So the other parts of the body do not develop new fat cells, the ones that were there just get a little bit bigger.

Fat cells behave differently in different parts of the body, but once they are removed from a particular area they don't come back. That is how you get a permanent change in body shape from lipo. The idea is to identify the areas where the fat is resistant to change with diet and exercise, and target those areas specifically. These are the fat cells that behave as sort of 'emergency reserves" and you would be too thin in other areas before they start to diminish.

If you have say 3 areas like this and you only have lipo on 2, then the other will become an even bigger problem. A classic example is the "apple body" where there is excess fat around the middle but skinny legs; an often overlooked part of that body type is the upper inner thighs. If the lipo addresses all of the problem areas, you can still gain weight but it would have to spread out evenly.