A YouTube star who looks unrecognisable after losing 17 stone has shared the 'truth' about his weight loss. Nikocado Avocado, who shot to fame posting extreme 'mukbang' videos of himself eating excessive amounts of fast food while talking to viewers, shocked the world when he revealed his dramatic transformation last year. He previously weighed 30 stone, but dropped to 13 stone in just two years. The 32-year-old, whose real name is Nicholas Perry, shared the news he'd had a facelift in January to fix his "drooped neck" and big gobble, gobble turkey neck" after he dropped the weight. But now the content creator, who is American but was born in Ukraine, has shared he's had further surgery in a bid to be free of what he calls a "horrendous" amount of loose skin around his stomach area.
In a YouTube video posted this week, Nikocado told his 4.6 million subscribers: "We're going to start this video off with the truth. I have not been telling the truth. Well I haven't not, not been telling the truth - I've just omitted a fact." He then went on to say: "Okay, so I'm just going to come out with it... I did a procedure, another one. So y'all know about the face one. I couldn't stop there.".
Standing up to show his followers what was under his T-shirt, the vlogger showed he was wearing a brace round his torso. He continued: "So, the truth is, when I came back to the internet... I was concealing something. "Now, everyone was like, 'Show us your loose skin'. Most people around that time already thought that I'd had skin removal surgery. I didn't want to address is, and the reason was because I didn't have skin removal surgery and I had a lot of loose skin. I knew I would have some and I was hiding it. I was hiding it in my clothes.".
Sharing further details of his weight loss journey, the social media star continued: "I lost 250lbs (17 stone) and it took a very long time. It took 2.3 years. And I did it very slowly, we're talking about eight pounds a month. "I'm just going to come out with it - I plateaued for some months. Sometimes I lost nothing or I gained two pounds, then the next month I lost 10 or 11, so averaged around eight pounds a month.".
Nikocado continued: "And at the end of it I had a lot of loose skin on my belly, my arms, my thighs, my torso, everywhere. There was loose skin all over my body. When you take out the fluid and the fat, it's just skin. You can kind of tuck it under your pants and hide it, and that's what I decided to do. I did not want to get skin removal surgery at that time, I was like, 'I don't know if I can handle it.' I was really nervous for it.".
Despite saying he "feared surgery", having seen the impressive results of his facelift - which he "recovered from in four days" - Nikocado decided to go ahead with the more complicated procedure. He also told how he was "shopping for clothes for a wedding, nothing fit, and I had to keep pushing my stomach into my pants. It was so annoying and gross and I just I was like, 'I have to get this off.'". So he enlisted the help of Dr. Timothy Katzen, who is regarded as one of the best plastic surgeons in America, to peform the surgery to remove 10 pounds of skin from his body in what is known as a '360 body lift', which Nikocado says is a "superior version of a tummy tuck".
The downside was post-op he couldn't shower for a month and he can't show his scars in the sun for a year. But Nikocado says it's all been worth it. He gushed: "I am loving my results. I feel so good. I haven't felt this good for, like, ever in my entire life.". He added: "I've never felt this good ... I can't wait to go to the beach and watch the sunrise and meditate and feel that sun and feel that breeze and breathe that air.” He now hopes his weight loss journey will inspire others who are in a similar position to him.
