• Is there an area of your body where fat seems to accumulate—and stubbornly hang on—no matter how much you diet
  or exercise?
  
  
• Have you lost 50 pounds or more after bariatric surgery and need to do something about loose, hanging skin?
  
  
• Are you a woman with large or uneven vaginal lips that make you feel uncomfortable or interfere with normal hygiene?
  
  

These are just a few reasons you may want to think about body contouring surgery.

What is body contouring?

Body contouring is plastic surgery to trim and reshape specific trouble spots. This category of procedures includes:

• Liposuction—minimally invasive surgery that streamlines your physique by suctioning away fat.
  
  
• Tummy tuck—a procedure that flattens the abs by removing excess abdominal skin and fat, tightening the muscles of the abdominal wall and repositioning the navel.
  
  
• Panniculectomy—surgery to remove the pannus, or apron of loose, hanging skin, after massive weight loss.
  
  
• Arm lift—a procedure to remove loose skin and excess fat deposits in the upper arm.
  
  
• Labiaplasty—surgery to reduce and/or balance the size of the labia minora, or the inner vaginal lips.
  
  

Any or all of these procedures may be part of a Mommy Makeover—a customized combination of plastic surgery procedures to restore a woman's figure to its pre-pregnancy shape.