This Morning presenter Josie Gibson has provided more detail on how she feels as she continues treatment for lipoedema, a condition she was diagnosed with last September
Television star Josie Gibson has shared an update on her chronic health condition after undergoing two surgeries in a bid to treat it.
Josie, who appears as a presenter on This Morning, first rose to fame in the 2010s when she appeared on Big Brother. Her career has continued to grow ever since, and she is now a regular face on British TV, including fronting two new ITV shows; Josie’s Taste of the Westcountry and How To Clean Up For Cash.
However, she has also faced health challenges, after being diagnosed with lipoedema last year. Lipoedema is a condition that causes fat to build-up in some parts of the body, including the legs and sometimes the arms.
In order to combat the condition, Josie admitted she had to take major action. Said major action was to have surgery, as the condition means you can’t lose fat in the affected areas.
She explained in an interview with Woman magazine: “No matter how fit you are or what your diet is, with lipoedema you can’t lose fat.
“So I had to do something about it and I’ve had two surgeries now – liposuction and an arm lift. My arms were really lumpy and horrible. I’ve got this little waist, I shouldn’t have cellulite on my arms!”
Pressed on how she feels now, Josie said she was recovering and waiting to take the bandages off, something that she admitted had stopped her in her tracks. She revealed: “I couldn’t even put the bins out.”
Josie, 41, has since used her platform to raise awareness of the condition on This Morning. Discussing the surgery on ITV in January, she explained how brutal the process was.
She said: “The last thing I want to do is put myself through surgery, but it was my last resort. They do this lipo treatment, and then they Vaser it after.
“So they burn your skin on the inside, your skin tightens together again. I’ve only done my calves, and it is split up into sections. You can’t do it all at once.”
Meanwhile, lipoedema specialist Dr Wolf told the broadcaster that the condition affects some people who have a genetic predisposition to it, but that more funding was needed for research.
He explained: “We’re limited by doing this in the private sector because there isn’t a diagnostic test. There’s a lack of research and funding in this condition.
“At the moment we rely heavily on symptomatology, patient experience, patient presentation, because if everyone with slightly larger legs would queue up in the NHS to try and have liposuction, the NHS would collapse.”
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