SKIN-NY AND BONES: Teen’s Skin Turns Elastic After Incredible Weight Loss

A boy in northern China was left with so much excess skin after losing weight it made him seem like he had become elastic.

The teen – named only as Shan in local media in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province -said that when he was about to graduate from the third year of high school that he found his face had become incredibly flexible.

Shan had previously tipped the scales at astounding 317 pounds (143 kilogrammes) but lost all the excess weight after a strict diet.

But he was left with huge folds of excess skin around his face and neck.

Now Shan posts videos of himself pinching his skin on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, and asks for experts’ opinions.

The videos show him pulling on the skin from his face and his neck, which amazingly snaps back to its proper state as soon as he lets go – apparently thanks to its elastic quality.

Netizens were seemingly baffled after watching his videos, and some said they mistook him for wearing fake leather at first.

Man shows his elastic skin after losing weight in Harbin, Heilongjiang in China, undated. The person involved, Shan, said that it was when he was about to graduate from the third year of high school when he found that his face became elastic. (54461171094/AsiaWire)

User ‘gorgeous things to share’ wrote: “After watching this video, are many people silently pulling their faces like me?”