If nutrients aren't absorbed by the body following WLS, why are vitamins?

I realize that post-WLS people have to take vitamin and other supplements because the body doesn't absorb them through food any longer. If the body doesn't absorb the nutrients through eating food, why is it that these nutrients would be absorbed in pill form? Am I making any sense?

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