BEFORE PHOTOGRAPH: This is a left frontal oblique view of a 21 year old woman with a BMI of 25.5 who underwent lipoabdominoplasty, liposuction of the anterior flanks and hernia repair.

This woman's abdomen protrudes for two reasons:  first, her abdominal muscuar wall was stretched by her pregnancy just as her skin was stretched; second, she has a hernia.  Neither can be corrected with anything other than surgery.