I look 15 again after spending £13,000 on a mummy makeover – people don’t even recognise me anymore

A mother-of-six has showed off her ‘unrecognisable’ new look after shelling out £15,000 for a ‘mummy makeover’ including multiple procedures to ‘look 15 again’. 

Chelsea Doyle, from Bromley, South East London, had her first baby when she was just 15 years old and went on to have another five children, during which time she gradually gained five stone. 

The 28-year-old explained she crept up six dresses after ‘binge eating’ her way through five takeaways a week and weighed 16st 7lbs at her heaviest.

Before her procedures, she had tried every diet out there but had never managed to keep the weight off.

She even struggled to leave the house and rarely went out – feeling self conscious no matter what she was wearing.

But after two years of suffering from a lack of confidence the mother-of-six decided enough was enough and she forked out £2,400 to pay for a gastric sleeve at a clinic in Turkey. 

Within a year of having the operation, the full-time mother had lost eight stone, which was half her body weight – but she still felt insecure about her loose skin.

So in 2024, the mother forked out a further £6,500 on a tummy tuck, liposuction, breast implants and uplift.

But Chelsea wasn’t finished just yet. In January earlier this year, she spent another £4,000 on an arm and thigh lift.

Now weighing 8st 2lbs, Chelsea has dropped from size 20 to a size 4, making her feel confident enough to wear crop tops and bikinis.

She said: ‘I’ve got six children and essentially had back-to-back labours. I didn’t lose the weight in between, I just gained and gained.

‘I’d tried shakes, Slimming World, Weight Watchers – there wasn’t a diet out there that I hadn’t tried.

‘I wanted to get back to my body pre-kids but I would gain it back as quickly as I lost it. I couldn’t stick to it.

‘I didn’t want to go out, I didn’t feel comfortable wearing anything, I didn’t feel myself.

‘I avoided going on holiday when I was big and I didn’t even want to take the children swimming. It was my biggest insecurity.

‘I was a massive binge-eater. If I was depressed, I would eat and if I was happy, I would eat. I was eating four or five takeaways a week.

‘It was like a food addiction. I wasn’t even hungry but I would just eat and eat.’

In December 2022, Chelsea researched weight-loss surgeries in Turkey and she underwent her gastric-sleeve operation just three weeks after paying for it.

Chelsea lived off a liquid food diet when she returned home, shedding a stone in weight within the first week.

She claimed the ‘mummy makeover’ surgeries that followed changed her life and that people don’t even recognise her.

‘My confidence has come back now. I take my children out all the time now and I take them on holiday. I’m so much happier,’ she said.

‘I’m never out of breath or tired anymore, I’ve got so much more energy.

‘Some people don’t even recognise me, they can’t believe what I look like. I wish I’d done it sooner.

‘I’m wearing bikinis, crop tops, shorts and nice underwear now but I wouldn’t even look at them before.

‘I went to Lanzarote in November and lived in a bikini but I would have never dreamt of doing that before the surgeries.

‘People tell me how much younger I look. This surgery saved my life.’