Her next challenge was a gastric sleeve surgery. It’s a weight-loss procedure in which the stomach is reduced by surgically removing a large portion of it along the greater curvature. “This was me, […] unposed, raw and vulnerable in my hospital bed moments after surgery. I lay unconscious and unresponsive like this for 4 hours before my eyes opened. My boyfriend took this photo of me in shock as he’d never seen me like this.