Remi Bader recently opened up about her weight loss surgery and described her recovery as “the worst thing of [her] life.”
“I did the surgery and [the doctor] did tell me – I can’t blame him because I had a rarer situation,” Remi, 30, told Khloé Kardashian during the March 27 episode of her “Khloé in Wonderland” podcast. “I just reacted differently. That’s the point. This is my journey and everyone reacts differently to everything.”
The social media influencer continued, “[The doctor] said I would be out of the hospital in, like, a day, and in five days I could travel and go back to my work schedule. I couldn’t leave the hospital. I couldn’t swallow water; I was, like, projectile vomiting. They don’t let you leave if you can’t drink water.”
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Remi added that she was “so sick” and “in recovery for hours” after her SADI-S weight loss surgery, and that “went on for six weeks.” While her doctor admitted that her recovery issues “weren’t normal,” Remi said that made her feel “even worse” and worry that she shouldn’t have undergone the surgery.
“I ended up going and living with my parents because they were concerned,” Remi said. “I was non stop throwing up and I could not eat. This went on so long that I got in a very scary, like, deep depression. I did not want to live anymore.”
Remi started gaining fame when she shared realistic try-on hauls via different social media platforms, but she began receiving an onslaught of backlash when she admitted to undergoing weight loss surgery. Fans accused her of sidestepping questions regarding how she lost the weight.
Remi Bader Recalls Abnormal Recovery From Weight Loss Surgery
“She kind of made it seem like she was losing weight at the gym and by eating healthier and cutting out alcohol,” an Instagram user pointed out. “Who cares if you have weight loss surgery? If everyone could afford it, everyone would do the same. But it’s tiring to see all these influencers or celebrities say that they lost the weight or enhanced their body through the gym only. Like they don’t reveal the surgeries, medications, and training programs alongside it.”
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Another person wrote on TikTok, “The part that made people mad is she tried to make it look like she worked out and ate right and then blocked anyone who called her out about it.”
However, Remi fired back at critics and revealed she doesn’t have any regrets about her decision not to share that she had weight loss surgery with her audience right away.
“Sharing something so personal again for the first time in a while, I was prepared for both backlash and support in terms of the decisions I had to make related to my health. But at the end of the day no one is changing how proud I am for myself for protecting my mental health and sticking to my boundaries at a time I was so low and so lost. And I will never regret that,” Remi wrote in a lengthy Instagram post on March 26.