A grandmother from Cumbernauld, Lanarkshire, who shed five stone with the help of the weight loss drug Mounjaro, is now seeking to raise funds for tummy tuck surgery. Angela Brown humorously describes her current appearance as resembling a ‘melted welly’ due to excess skin.

Angela, who previously weighed 24 stone, embarked on a transformative journey combining exercise, a healthy diet, and eventually, the weight loss injectable Mounjaro. Initially, through diet and exercise alone, the 52-year-old managed to lose an impressive six stone, bringing her weight down to 18 stone. However, she found it challenging to continue shedding pounds through natural methods alone.

Facing the dual challenges of Type 2 diabetes and being a cancer survivor, Angela began using Mounjaro on her healthcare provider’s recommendation. To her delight, the weight began to fall off, resulting in a total weight loss of 11 stone.

Once a size 26, Angela now enjoys a more svelte figure, fitting comfortably into size 12 to 14 clothing. Remarkably, her health journey has also led her to remission from diabetes.

However, Angela’s dramatic weight loss has left her with significant excess skin. To address this, she has launched a GoFundMe campaign, aiming to gather enough funds to undergo surgery abroad to remove the surplus skin.

But following her weight loss, Angela revealed she has now been left with an enormity of ‘excess skin’, and is now campaigning on her own GoFundMe page to raise funds to have surgery abroad to remove it.

Although she is pleased with her results, the grandmother said she still struggles with body confidence due to the excess skin left around her legs, arms and stomach.

She said she can hardly look in the mirror and is ’embarrassed’ by the ‘saggy’ skin left by the dramatic weight loss, she revealed during an interview with Glasgow Times.

Angela Brown, from Cumbernauld in Lanarkshire, weighed 24 stone just a few years ago. Pictured during her weight loss journey 

She told the paper: ‘I’ve lost so much weight and my heath has vastly improved, but instead of feeling confident I hate looking in the mirror. 

‘My stomach stretches down to my knees and the amount of saggy skin on my legs has left me feeling like my body looks like a melted welly.’

She added: ‘I feel so embarrassed, and I have to go up a clothes size just to fit the skin hanging down into my trousers.’

Much to her dismay, a cosmetic procedure to remove the skin is not be available on the NHS, meaning Angela would need to travel abroad to seek treatment.

Unable to pay for her own surgery, she would need to spend £12,000 to have the three surgeries abroad for the results she wants.

Writing on the charity website, Angela said she was ‘looking for a little help towards surgeries’, adding that she wasn’t just looking for handouts, and was ‘also saving towards this myself.’

Since sharing the plea on the charity funding page last week, she has raised £5,000.    

Angela’s incredible results were inspired by tragic circumstances, she told Glasgow Times.

Starting her journey as a size 26, Angela has seen incredible results and has now slimmed down to a trim size 12 to 14 

Using diet and exercise only to begin with, the 52-year-old was able to ditch an impressive 6st, taking her to 18st, but she struggled to get any further with her weight loss, despite keeping up with natural technique

The grandmother said it was the death of her father, Robert, in 2023 that marked the turning point in her choosing to finally make a change.  

Not only that, but Angela has also faced ‘cancer and other health issues’, only some of which she put down to ‘an unhealthy lifestyle’. 

Thanks to healthy changes and taking weight-loss drugs, Angela is also now in remission for Type 2 diabetes. 

Mounjaro, also known as GLP-1s, is the brand name for Tirzepatide – a drug that lowers blood sugar levels. 

It is one of a number of now popular weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic, that  have become increasingly popular.

It comes following the news that pharmacists are set to start dishing out weight-loss jabs on the NHS. 

Under government plans, just a short, over-the-counter consultation will be needed to get the likes of Ozempic and Mounjaro for the cost of an NHS prescription – this week frozen at £9.90. 

The Mail understands a deal worth tens of millions of pounds will be struck with a major pharmaceutical firm to fund a pilot scheme across the UK, with a view to eventually rolling it out to everyone in need.

At the moment, the powerful injections are available to only a tiny number of people on the NHS – after talks with a specialist and in conjunction with other weight-loss methods. There is a two-year waiting list.

But ministers plan to expand the drugs’ use dramatically by dishing out prescriptions quickly and easily in ‘creative’ ways, such as through high street chemists, health centres and apps.

It means, once the deal is signed, it will be possible to walk into a pharmacy and, after a short assessment, leave with a supply of jabs for £9.90.