![]() This procedure tightens the abdominal muscles and removes excess skin, creating a flatter belly. Jessica had an abdominoplasty performed by Schmidt in January 2020.ĭuring an abdominoplasty, a horizontal incision is made between the hipbones, just above the pubic mound. I could trust him to do this.”Īfter meeting with Schmidt, Jessica was ready to get rid of the skin she had been carrying for more than a decade. “Overall, his personality seemed so bubbly and friendly and I felt a connection with him. “I went to go meet him and I feel he just took the time to explain everything to me on what he would do,” Jessica says. “And she’s like, ‘Oh my God, he was amazing.’ Like God bless her soul for showing me her whole experience.”Ī family member who had seen Schmidt years ago also encouraged Jessica to set up an appointment with him. She’s a friend of one of my clients, and she reached out to me and sent me pictures of her before and her after,” Jessica says. She wasn’t afraid to admit that.Ī client of Jessica’s cleaning business was aware of her fears, and had a friend reach out to her via Facebook. Jessica was ready for a permanent change, but surgery was a scary prospect. “I would have to take my skin and push it into my workout pants and I would have to try everything on, like my lower half, even underwear because if it didn’t sit right with the skin or if the pants were too tight they’d made like all your skin squish out and it was just really irritating.”ĭespite Jessica’s efforts with dieting and a strict exercise regimen, the extra skin on her abdomen remained. “Carrying that on you every day, you just don’t have confidence or a good self-esteem,” Jessica says. However, her weight loss, along with another pregnancy, resulted in excess skin on her abdomen. ![]() Jessica dieted, started running and engaged in intense exercise programs. The new mom decided enough was enough and was ready for a change. Just before giving birth to her first daughter, Jessica weighed more than 250 pounds. I mean I would cook, but it was all pre-made stuff I just threw in the oven – a lot of processed foods.” I felt like I ate everything because I didn’t know what to do.”Īs Jessica entered adulthood and matured after high school, her eating issues intensified. “I feel like I had a lot of eating issues. I overate because my parents were divorced and food was my comfort,” she says. ![]() “I was always big and I wanted to be the skinny girl but I didn’t know how to do it. Jessica had struggled with her body image since high school, she says. “Every day I would wake up and I’d go to the mirror and I’d grab ahold of all of it and I’d squish it around. “I was very insecure about all of the extra skin that I had,” says Jessica, who lives in Marinette. Steven Schmidt of Plastic Surgery & Skin Specialists by Ba圜are Clinic.Ī mother of two in her mid-30s, she struggled with excessive skin on her abdomen. “She got lupus and didn’t properly take care of herself, and that eventually led to her death.”įor more on what your favorite OLTL stars are up to now, keep reading the ABC edition of Soaps In Depth magazine.“Every day was just horrible” for Jessica Wille before she had an abdominoplasty, better known as a tummy tuck, done by Dr. “I feel that the writers were good about clarifying that Megan wasn’t dying from lupus,” the actress maintains. Tuck remains proud of the impact that the story had and especially of the message it imparted. “And the fact that Megan died in Jake’s arms… There was a finality to it. “At every turn, it was expected that ‘Oh, this is what’s going to save her.’ Then ‘Oh God, this is what’s going to save her,’” Tuck said. Jake had it transplanted to the hospital where he decorated it with Valentine’s Day hearts, and carried Megan to a window to see. Together, the lovers remembered their wedding day and the tree they’d planted outside the church. “I didn’t want to show a lip-gloss version of what it means to be at end of life, because I felt that would be disrespectful to those who actually were suffering.” “I remember saying, ‘Not only do I not want makeup, but I actually want you to put dark circles under my eyes, and I didn’t wash my hair,” Tuck shared. ![]() Sadly, the transplant didn’t take, and Jake made it back home to find Megan near death. “Megan’s passing was emotional for me because OLTL had become my home,” Tuck recalled. “There was a mother/daughter dynamic at play there,” recalled Tuck, adding that the show “addressed the question of, ‘How does that get pushed on when one of the people in the dynamic is facing a deadly situation?’” Unfortunately, Megan didn’t follow precautions and wound up needing a kidney from Viki.
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