Tammy Slaton's Excess Skin Removal Before & After Photos: See Her Transformation (Exclusive)
Tammy Slaton's Excess Skin Removal Before & After Photos: See Her Transformation (Exclusive) originally appeared on Parade.
1000-Lb Sisters star revealed the results of her excess skin removal surgery in the Season 7 finale of the TLC series—and the before and after photos of her jaw-dropping transformation are simply stunning.
On Tuesday, June 10, viewers finally got to see Slaton, 38, after she had more than 10 pounds of skin removed from her neck, abdomen and arms following a 500-pound weight loss.
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Under the guidance of , chair of plastic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center—along with three other attending surgeons, two nurse and surgical tech teams and an anesthesia team—the combined procedures took approximately eight hours to complete.
"Tammy is such a wonderful example of the type of courage and determination that it takes to achieve this type of weight loss goal," Dr. Rubin exclusively told Parade via phone ahead of the 1000-Lb Sisters Season 7 finale.
"People think that if you have bariatric surgery, you know, it's the easy way out. It's really not," he continued. "That takes a huge amount of courage and commitment."
As the plastic surgeon explained, dropping the weight was only one part of the journey to Slaton's excess skin removal.
"You have to do all of the lifestyle components that go with it," Dr. Rubin said. "Tammy had a really great bariatric surgeon, , who has really been a pleasure to work with."
After Tammy underwent gastric bypass surgery in 2022, viewers watched her finally qualify for excess skin removal in Season 7 of 1000-Lb Sisters—but only after she hit a couple of health goals, including quitting vaping.
"A lot of people don't realize that nicotine use poses a tremendous increase in risk of wound healing complications with plastic surgery," Dr. Rubin explained. "So many, it's very common for plastic surgeons to work with their patients to get them off of nicotine products for an elective procedure."
Another barrier to Tammy getting approved for excess skin removal surgery was the low protein levels in her body.
"That's another common theme that we see in patients who have lost a tremendous amount of weight," Dr. Rubin shared. "And we worked, we really got her entire medical care team together, not just my team, but her bariatric team, her primary care doctor—and we all worked with her to get her to boost her protein intake."
Although Slaton opted for excess skin removal, not everyone who goes through significant weight loss wants or needs the procedure.
"We really focus on, you know, what's important to each patient and rather than trying to, 'You've lost weight, you're going to need this operation and that operation,'" Dr. Rubin explained. "We want to work with them and really individualize and personalize every treatment program."
Ultimately, the most important factor in anyone's skin-removal journey, Dr. Rubin shared, is the "safety of our patients and making sure that we're working with them collaboratively to have conditions optimized."
Congrats to Slaton on her many years of hard work and determination in reaching her goals!
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Tammy Slaton's Excess Skin Removal Before & After Photos: See Her Transformation (Exclusive) first appeared on Parade on Jun 11, 2025
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