Manchester City have qualified for the UEFA Super Cup after beating Inter Milan 1-0 in the final of the Champions League on Saturday night.
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A nurse who used to joke she 'looked like a prop forward' says she's now finally happy in her own skin after after flying abroad for weight loss surgery. At her heaviest, Marie Rowe, 56, tipped the scales at more than 17st and wore a size 24 uniform.
But now she's lost more than six stone and is a slim size 12 after undergoing undergoing gastric sleeve surgery in Latvia. Marie, of Lymm in Cheshire, said: "There's a lot of rugby players in my family and I always joked that I was built like a prop forward. Now I feel really happy with how I am."
The palliative care nurse says she struggled with her appearance her entire life and began dieting when she started high school. Marie said: "I remember at the age of 12 I'd just started high school and I started getting a bit of stick.
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"My mum told me I wasn't fat but I didn't listen. Growing up I became thick-skinned to the comments and certain things became the norm, like scanning a room as soon as I walked in for a chair without arms, as I didn't want to be squeezing over the sides.
"Some people say 'why can't you just exercise and eat less?', but people who don't have a weight problem don't understand."
It was only when Marie's best friend, who lives in Australia, decided to undergo weight loss surgery in her home country that the mum-of-two also agreed to have the procedure out of support. Marie began researching online and found a clinic in Riga, Latvia.
After extensive research and joining a @WeightLossRiga Facebook group with almost 7,000 past and prospective patients, Marie made her decision and flew the two-and-a-half hours to Weight Loss Riga in September 2021. Gastric sleeve surgery involves
Manchester City have qualified for the UEFA Super Cup after beating Inter Milan 1-0 in the final of the Champions League on Saturday night.
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