Can These Thighs Be Fixed? After Losing 100 Lbs, the Thighs Are Ugly and I Just Want to Hide. (photo)

There is nothing uglier to me than the way I look in anything across the area between my knees and lower torso. Ugh.. stretched out skin, genetics, lumpy, cottage cheese that even looks awful under clothes. Things that fit in the waist don't fit in the thighs. I've quit exercising because no amount of walking, climbing or anything seems to do a darn thing and there are a lot of doctors, who say there's no hope. Is there any hope for visual improvement?

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Can These Thighs Be Fixed? After Losing 100 Lbs, the Thighs Are Ugly and I Just Want to Hide.

Just from looking at the pictures, the medial thigh lift would make a dramatic improvement on the look of your thighs. Other procedures can be performed after that, but I would start with that. Find a plastic surgeon with ELITE credentials who performs hundreds of body contouring procedures each year. Look at website before and after photos and decide which surgeon can give the results you desire. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA more

Loose skin of thighs after 100 pound weight loss

Congratulations, first of all, on your weight loss! The medial thigh lift with fascial anchoring as originally described by Dr. Ted Lockwood will help the inner thighs. The high lateral tension abdominoplasty will tighten the abdomen and lift the upper portions of the anterior thighs. The posterior body lift will tighten the "saddle bag" area and lift the upper buttock area. These are all big procedures, but for healthy well-motivated patients the results are... more