Glow, girl! The Family Chantel star Winter Everett has taken fans along with her on her weight loss surgery journey as she documented every step on her familys hit reality TV series. Winter was inspired to undergo weight loss surgery by Kayla La Vende, a.k.a. The Weight Loss Barbie on TikTok, and Kayla exclusively opens up to In Touch about how Winter is doing on her weight loss journey.
Winters journey is going great. Shes glowing. Her confidence is just shining through, Kayla exclusively tells In Touch in a video interview. We do keep in touch a lot early on. She would email me and just ask, Hey, is this right? Or, the scales not moving this week. I would just tell her, Just keep doing what you doing, just stay on track, make sure youre drinking enough, getting enough protein and sleeping enough!'
The TikToker continued, And now I see her doing a lot of fitness and working out every day and I love it cause you know, I do the same and I try to hold people accountable and hold myself accountable as well. And so I see her doing that. So we kind of cheer each other on.
As fans watched on season 4 of TLCs The Family Chantel, Winter connected with Kayla, who works as a social media manager at Elias Ortiz & Company a weight loss clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. Kayla has been open about her experience at EOC for her own weight loss surgery, and Winter decided to undergo a gastric sleeve procedure with Dr. Elias Ortiz after seeing Kaylas results online.
Going to Mexico, the prerequisites for the surgery are a lot smaller than here in America and its more cost effective, Winter, 26, said in her confessional on the season 4 premiere. My family, theyre very skeptical to the whole idea but I made this decision on my own and this is what I want to do, so Im going to do it.
Many viewers also had similar thoughts about Winter going to Mexico to undergo weight loss surgery, but Kayla shares some advice to those who may have reservations about going out of the United States for medical tourism. My biggest advice would be do your research. Research your surgeon, if youre looking at having bariatric surgery, definitely look up Elias Ortiz and Company, she explains. Tijuana is the bariatric capital of the world. EOC is the biggest company in Tijuana. Dr. Ortiz is also a bariatric professor. Do your research, numbers dont lie, statistics dont lie. So make sure you are definitely going with a surgeon who is experienced. But also dont be skeptical. Dont be scared because some of the worlds best surgeons are in other countries.
One of Winters biggest fears about undergoing gastric sleeve surgery was that she was afraid that since so much of her identity is rooted in her being a fashionable, beautiful plus-size woman, she worried she would lose her identity as she started to shed the pounds. However, Kayla completely understood where Winter was coming from and was able to ease her mind.
When Winter was concerned about losing her identity as this fabulous plus size girl, I could totally relate, Kayla explains. I told her, look, you know, all that is gonna stay the same. Its gonna amplify, there may be some people you dont inspire anymore and thats OK because theres gonna be a whole new world that you do inspire for all these people that wanna change, who want to get healthier.
Kayla continues, I feel like body positivity isnt a certain size, body positivity is about loving your body, no matter what size, loving your body enough, if you wanna change to change. And thats OK. I kind of just explained to her and I shared images of myself and I was like, Hey, I still, I have the same clothes. Ive altered them. I have tailored them down to fit me now. Like, my aesthetic has still stayed the same. And its just, its a lot easier now to shop, so my aesthetic has kind of amplified now that things are way more accessible for me.
So when I shared those pictures and my experiences with her, cause it is kind of tricky at first because you are in such a certain demographic and then you do change, the social media personality adds. And then, like I said, youre not inspiring those people, so you kind of feel like, Well, where do I belong now? And then a whole new world opens up of other people who you do inspire. I think after we had that chat, it made her feel a lot more confident with going ahead with it and realize that, I dont have to change, my body will change, but Im still the same. You just become more disciplined, more structured and just more able to do things.
After undergoing the procedure nearly one year ago, Winter has continued to document her weight loss journey on social media with fans. Her weight loss progress has been going so well that Kayla says the Georgia native is ready to take the next step in her weight transformation.
Winters at the phase in her journey [that] she almost qualifies now for the next step, which is plastic surgery, Kayla reveals. I just had all my procedures done, like my tummy tuck and all that done with Dr. [Omar] Lazos at the end of last year. So shes been, weve been talking about that and Ive been, you know, running her through the process of how plastics work and got her in touch with Dr. Lazos. So hopefully, would love to have her back when shes ready to finish the journey for her. But yeah, shes doing great and Im so proud of her.
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Weight Loss Barbie Shares Update on The Family Chantel Star Winter Everetts Weight Loss Journey - inTouch Weekly
