A third of overweight women said they would pile on the pounds to push them into the morbidly obese category needed for inclusion, if it meant receiving free weight loss surgery.
Rather than lose the weight naturally, 32 percent of women polled in the survey by the Good Surgeon Guide said they would overeat in order to have access to slimming procedures, such as the gastric balloon and the gastric band, and that 1 in 10 had already asked their GP.
Other findings from the survey of 1,216 women accross the UK revealed that 28 percent would claim depression to get a rhinoplasty on the NHS, while over 1 in 5 would ask for a free breast lift after breast feeding to restore body confidence. Six in ten women said that they would undertake some form of cosmetic surgery if it was paid for by the national health service.
The same survey also showed that 43 percent of mothers would be willing for their children to undergo plastic surgery for treatments such as ear pinning if it was available to prevent bullying.
Stars who have famously undergone weight loss surgery are Fern Cotton, Randy Jackson and Roseanne Barr.
