Paul Mason made headlines in 2010 after the TLC special World’s Fattest Man but is now back in the news for continuing his weight-loss journey after already losing over 600 pounds. *Warning: this post contains a graphic image of Paul’s skin during surgery. Paul Mason made headlines in 2010 after the TLC special World’s Fattest Man but is now back in the news for continuing his weight-loss journey after already losing over 600 pounds. The 54-year-old man from England underwent gastric bypass surgery at 980 pounds in 2010, but even at his postsurgery weight, Paul felt physically limited by his excess skin. That’s why a skin-removal surgery was so important to him, and after years of hoping, that surgery finally happened.* The reason Paul’s surgery has been widely circulated on the Internet? The New York Times reporter Sarah Lyall was assigned to witness and live tweet the surgery from the operating room at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. You can follow the process and view more photos there, but one of Sarah’s photos, shown below, is of doctors holding some of Paul’s excess skin during the operation.

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