World’s ex-fattest man poses in nude

Adapted from The Sun

Slimmed down Paul Mason bares all — to reveal the ugly folds of sagging skin doctors refuse to remove.

Paul — once the world’s fattest man at 70st — shed an incredible 46st in three years but as a result has so much loose flesh it completely covers his wedding tackle.

Ex-postie Paul, 52, lost two-thirds of his weight when a gastric bypass op reduced his stomach to the size of an egg.

`He has now posed naked in the hope these shocking photos will persuade NHS chiefs to sanction a £60,000 operation to remove the unsightly excess skin.

He said: “I want health professionals to have a look and think, ‘It’s about time we helped this chap’.

"Around my middle and on my legs the skin keeps splitting because of the weight of it.”

Paul, who had the gastric bypass on the NHS in 2010, once gorged on 20,000 calories a day — ten times the healthy level.

He would eat four portions of fish and chips, two kebabs and a roast — just for lunch.

Now he is down to 24st and wants to lose more.

He says about eight stone would go if surgeons removed the droopy skin which restricts his mobility and causes sores.

His GP will present the pictures to NHS bosses as proof he needs the op now.

But Paul, from Ipswich, Suffolk, is beginning to lose hope.

He said: “I met a lady who has been waiting 13 years and she’s only got two stone of loose skin.”

Doctors have told Paul he needs to have a “stable weight” for two years before surgery can go ahead.

A spokesman for the NHS Ipswich and East Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group said: “The NHS has a panel of people, including clinicians, who decide whether the patient should have such an operation.

"A patient must have a stable weight before he or she is considered.”

Paul hopes the pictures will deter others with weight problems.

He said: “People think skin will shrink back but it doesn’t. If they find it shocking perhaps they will think twice.”

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