Popular Nigerian comedian, Real Warri Pikin, recently caused a huge social media buzz over her sudden weight loss.
The comic relief personality took to YouTube to share her transformation journey, admitting that she underwent surgery.
She disclosed that her husband was concerned about her health and urged her to undergo surgery.
Real Warri Pikin revealed that the choice to do the surgery was difficult as it required a lot of courage.
The comedienne also recalled how she had engaged in several workout sessions at the gym and ate the proper meals but did not get the required result.
She added that her final resolve to undergo the surgery came from her husband, Ikechukwu, and everyone close to her supported it.
She said: “So na Ikechukwu now dey tell me to say I must do a weight loss surgery because he does not want to lose me. It was such a difficult time for me.
“This was like January 2023, I will cry, I went back to the gym, I will work out, I will eat right, eye go dey turn me because I no fit chop wetin I suppose to chop, it became a very difficult time for me, trying to make a decision to go on weight loss surgery so it could help me lose weight and be well.
“And then I’m trying to do it naturally; everybody around me has made up their mind except me; it was such a difficult moment for me.
“At the end of the day, I just woke up one day and said baby, I’m ready, let’s do this, and I took the most difficult decision of my life; I went on weight loss surgery.”
Real Warri Pikin explains how she became a plus-size woman after getting married, the health challenges of being plus-size, the difficulties she’s faced in her journey to being fit and losing weight, and everything that led to the decision to undergo weight loss surgery.
She also talked about the benefits of being fit and working out.
Speaking further in the emotional video, Real Warri Pikin admitted that she was happy she finally decided to undergo weight loss surgery because all of her health issues disappeared with it. According to her, the surgery put an end to her knee pains, migraines, and other health issues she was diagnosed with.
She said: “I’m happy I made that decision, I’m happy my husband Victor Ikechukwu Asuoha was there for me, my doctor, my family was there to say ‘Anita do it and you will be fine’ I did it and I am fine, I feel better, I don’t wake up dizzy, weak. I don’t wake up with migraines anymore, I don’t have knee pains anymore, everything that I was diagnosed with, I’m free from it, I feel so good right now.”
She also spoke on how keeping fit should be normalised and how some people have used ‘body positivity’ terms to deceive themselves into living an unhealthy lifestyle. According to her, she used to be one of those who used to say ‘na fat I fat, I no kill person’ even though she was gradually dying.
“Keeping fit should be normalised, we don’t talk about it enough because of this ‘self love, body positivity, I’ve been there, love yourself the way you are, na fat I fat, I no kill person, those are the things that I was using at the time, ‘na fat I fat I no kill person, I be plus size, uhhh you dey die dey go’.”
