Abstract
Women who lose a lot of weight face the situation of body transformations such as excess skin or marks of weight loss. And they ask about reconstructive surgery as transformative surgery for a new body ‑ by removal or skin remodeling. This transformation seems necessary to get closer to current standards of beauty: smooth skin and slim body, sign of well‑being and social success.Based on interviews and an observation on a social network, this work raises the question of the experience of women in relation to their excess skin after a significant weight loss and then, that of their relationship to this skin and its surgical removal, both in terms of body or health and in terms of self‑use or social benefits. Because, if this new transformation involves individual and collective implications of normalization, how do these women live acorporation and aestheticization of their new body?