RuPaul’s Drag Race’s DeJa Skye ‘Virtually Died’ After Weight Loss Surgical procedure

Throughout Friday’s two-episode Season 10 premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Starsthe 34-year-old drag queen detailed present process weight reduction surgical procedure in 2023, recalling how she “virtually died” after struggling extreme problems.

Skye beforehand revealed that she underwent cosmetic surgery in Mexico in late 2023, and had liposuction and a tummy tuck. Based on Folksher procedures resulted in a 60-pound weight reduction. Nonetheless, Skye stated she skilled scary problems throughout her post-surgery restoration, together with struggling blood clots in her lungs and legs, with the ache changing into so extreme she “could not even stroll” at one level.

“It wasn’t an excellent expertise, if I am being sincere,” Skye admitted on Friday’s premiere.

“My physique was like, ‘No.’ It was loopy, like, I legit virtually died,” she continued. “And that was the darkest time, simply sitting within the hospital mattress alone and being like, ‘Why did I do that to myself?'”

Skye — who first appeared on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 14 in 2022 — opened up about her determination to bear weight reduction surgical procedure, sharing whether or not or not she regrets the procedures now, wanting again.

“If I am being 1,000% sincere, no person went to me and went, ‘You could drop some weight.’ I simply received in my head and I over-thunk,” she recalled. “‘Possibly it might assist my profession? Possibly it might assist my drag?’ And in actuality, I had all of it earlier than. It was simply… I nonetheless don’t know why I did it.'”

Skye shared extra ideas in a confessional.

“Do I remorse it? I do,” she admitted. “Clearly, I am thinner, however I virtually died on that desk. And it made me notice that the voices in my head could be my worst f—ing enemy, and I need to do higher shifting ahead.”

Throughout a dialog along with her fellow contestants Aja, Bosco, Irene the Alien, Olivia Lux, and Phoenix in Episode 2, Skye received candid about her insecurities.

“I simply continually really feel like I am not ok. I simply do not know the place it stems from,” she shared. “I do not know why I can not let myself simply be blissful for myself. For some motive, I simply care an excessive amount of what folks assume.”

Whereas talking with RupaSkye suggested others who’re concerned about getting a tummy tuck or liposuction to “completely do their analysis” beforehand.

“Go and see a physician and ensure your physique is able to these issues,” she added.

Skye first opened up about her present process cosmetic surgery — and the next “problems” — in an Instagram video in January 2024, calling it the “darkest time of my life.”

“My physique, I assume, is simply not outfitted for surgical procedure, or perhaps (it is) one thing that I simply did not actually notice. I’ve by no means gone by way of any surgical procedure,” she stated. “It is simply been one factor after the opposite.”

Based on Skye, following the surgical procedure in Mexico, she needed to return to the hospital after her pores and skin turned yellow.

“I had to return to the hospital and get three blood transfusions,” she recalled. “I used to be actually yellow. My pores and skin was yellow. I had misplaced a number of blood.”

Skye stated she traveled residence to america two weeks later, solely to should examine herself into the ER after experiencing ache and shortness of breath. She stated it was found that she had blood clots in her lungs and legs, which had been affecting her potential to stroll.

Whereas her ache luckily went away, Skye stated she continued to undergo extreme uncomfortable side effects, together with vomiting for “each two hours” for a “couple of days.”

“My physique is simply going by way of an insane quantity of trauma,” she stated. “Restoration is a really gradual course of, and I did not take into consideration that … Everybody I speak to is (like,) ‘It’s going to be value it.’ It’s arduous to look to the long run once you’re in ache, and simply need this to be gone. If I knew it was going to be like this, I might have by no means received the surgical procedure, by no means gotten it.”

Skye additionally opened up about the way it wasn’t her bodily well being that suffered.

“Going by way of it alone was a extremely huge battle,” she admitted. “… Psychological well being is actual. I’ve by no means been depressed in my life, but it surely’s arduous to remain constructive.”

“It is nothing to giggle at, it is nothing to bat a watch to,” she continued, including that she had “by no means” skilled anxiousness earlier than both. “It is arduous. Proper now, it is extraordinarily troublesome.”

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