RuPaul’s Drag Race’s DeJa Skye ‘Almost Died’ After Weight Loss Surgery

Throughout Friday’s two-episode Season 10 premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, the 34-year-old drag queen detailed present process weight reduction surgical procedure in 2023, recalling how she “nearly 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 Folks, her procedures resulted in a 60-pound weight reduction. Nonetheless, Skye mentioned she skilled scary problems throughout her post-surgery restoration, together with struggling blood clots in her lungs and legs, with the ache turning 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 nearly 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 choice 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, ‘That you must shed weight.’ I simply obtained in my head and I over-thunk,” she recalled. “‘Perhaps it could assist my profession? Perhaps it could 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 nearly died on that desk. And it made me notice that the voices in my head will be my worst f—ing enemy, and I wish 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 obtained candid about her insecurities.

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

Whereas talking with RuPaul, Skye suggested others who’re keen on 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 suppose, is simply not outfitted for surgical procedure, or perhaps [it’s] one thing that I simply did not actually notice. I’ve by no means gone by any surgical procedure,” she mentioned. “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 loads of blood.”

Skye mentioned she traveled house to the USA two weeks later, solely to need to test herself into the ER after experiencing ache and shortness of breath. She mentioned it was found that she had blood clots in her lungs and legs, which have been affecting her potential to stroll.

Whereas her ache thankfully went away, Skye mentioned 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 an insane quantity of trauma,” she mentioned. “Restoration is a really sluggish course of, and I did not take into consideration that … Everybody I speak to is [like,] ‘It will be value it.’ It’s exhausting to look to the long run whenever 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 obtained 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 it alone was a extremely large battle,” she admitted. “… Psychological well being is actual. I’ve by no means been depressed in my life, nevertheless it’s exhausting to remain optimistic.”

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

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