ANNEMARIE Jones loves her five children, but her joy has come at a price. Having them within nine years has played havoc with her figure. The 29-year-old became self-conscious about her weight and no amount of dieting could shift the overhang of her stomach.

Her partner, health and safety manager Edward Turnbull, 30, kept telling her he loved her as she was. 'But it wasn't enough for me,' she says. 'I wanted to look 29.'

Anne Marie’s condition triggered a bout of depression and also hindered her work as a paramedic. No treatment was available on the NHS and a private consultant told her that the operation to cut away the excess flesh, an Abdominoplasty, would cost her £12,000.

Through a friend, she learned of Surgery Abroad International, a company that helps people to find suitable medical centers and prepares them for the operation.

Late last year, Anne Marie, from Dudley, West Midlands started corresponding with a surgeon in India. She described her condition and sent photographs, records and other information. In January, she flew to New Delhi and from there to Mohali, an hour's flight north.

She arrived on a Saturday and on the Monday underwent eight hours of surgery, during which two stones of fat were removed from her stomach.

Two weeks later, having satisfied the surgeon that she was fit to travel, she was sitting in a business class seat on the nine-hour flight home. Three weeks after that, she was back at work. The trip and treatment had cost £3,000.

Anne Marie, whose children are aged between eight and one, says: 'I look my age again. I feel young and attractive. My whole shape has changed and my self-esteem is back. Of course, there are risks --there are risks with all surgery. But they didn't outweigh the problem of my condition.”

AS published in news article titled
‘Cosmetic surgery tourism’ by

Richard Dyson in Financial Mail, UK dated 13 June 2006. For full article click, http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/insurance/health-insurance/article.html?in_article_id=409865&in_page_id=39

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