Bethanie Thompson, a 30-year-old resident of Derby, England, made the decision to transform her health to save her mother, 48-year-old Sarah Scally.
The mother was suffering from critical kidney failure with only 3% function in her kidneys and needed an urgent transplant to survive. Although Bethanie offered to be a donor, she initially weighed 114 kilos and was rejected by doctors for being too large for the surgery.
After months of effort in the gym and a change in her diet, Bethanie achieved the necessary physical goal by losing 25 kilos and hopes to lose another 19. The transplant was successfully carried out in December 2025, restoring Sarah’s health after years of dialysis.
