on the msn page theres this story MSN
But it looks like a totally different woman if you look at the pics …… ive seen relatives lose dramatic amounts of weight but they still looked the same more or less ….
So is it a really good touched up photo or is it possible ?
It’s the same person. Look at the way her dimples form on her face in the before and after. She lost 300 lbs, so her face is much thinner and looks dramatically different.
It’s quite possible that some of the surgery she had was on her face. She may also have been professionally made up.
People who lose a lot of weight fast often look quite gaunt to me. I have noticed this when watching American TV series, and jump straight from one season to another; I think, “what’s wrong with that guy”, and then realise that he has lost 30lbs between seasons.
Nose and eyes as well. But yeah, we’re talking about a huge weight difference: she’s lost the weight equivalent of two grown-up people (ok, small ones). Those minor changes correlate with minor weight differences.
One of my friends had some kind of weight loss surgery (not sure which one) and lost on the order of 200 pounds. To me, his face looks drastically different. I mean, I recognize it’s the same person from cues like the eye color and obviously his voice, but if he had the surgery and didn’t tell me about it and I saw a portrait of him a year or two later after the weight loss had taken effect, I wouldn’t have recognized him.
I’m a bodybuilder. I’m 50 pounds different from off season to in season. My face looks very different.
It depends on the person and what part of the face you are talking about. Some features like the eyes, nose, and forehead change very little. Other parts of the face can change dramatically, to the point that people can look radically different.
I was recently learning about biometrics. The instructor showed us two faces, both a fat guy with a chubby face. At a glance, they appeared to be the same individual. But when they submitted the faces to the computer, the AI matched the subject to a much earlier photo in which he had a very thin face. It turns out the second fat guy was actually his brother. So the changes in the face were extreme enough to fool the naked eye, but the key parts of the face were consistent enough that the machine was not deceived. It was some interesting stuff.
I think the example you’re using is a bit on the extreme side- you’re literally taking a woman who lost the equivalent of a whole other obese person, and pointing out that her face changed a lot.
Just losing say… 50 lbs would be noticeable, but not nearly as dramatic.
I lost about 20 lbs over the last year. I sometimes find my face startling if I catch myself in the mirror.
I think she looks more different in top side-by side. In the lower ones, her being herself is much more apparent - especially the last one.
Might be because you saw that weight loss gradually (if you did) and might be because you know that person better and the relative’s features are more familiar to you. Or maybe it’s something else, mine are just guesses.
Okay, but that woman didn’t just “lose some weight.” She lost like two PEOPLE. she had to have surgery to have the extra skin removed - you can see the scars near her hips in one of the photos. She was fucking enormous; her face was covered in rolls of fat.
I’m a good 65, 70 pounds lighter than once I was and I look quite different - in a small number of photos you might think the fatter me was a relative, not the same person. And 70 pounds is nothing compared to what she did.
Yes. Dramatic weight loss does produce dramatic changes in the face. I’m on Weight Watchers and their connect site, on Fridays, is filled with people comparing their face before and during their weight loss journeys. It’s totally a thing. When I lost weight last time (before I gained it back, I’m going back the other way now, hopefully for good), I loved comparing my before and during face. It was about the only place, that it really felt like my efforts were showing.