Am I being too vain and concerned about the little stuff?

I will be going in for a body lift in september, and everything is going well I am prepped and everything. But then the *vain* fear of how the scar would look afterwards crept in and made me wonder. I had the same question before my open rny but felt I could handle it because the weight was too much to bare. Thanks to some injections its flat and you cant even notice it. However the body lift will be a continuous scar all the way around the waist, and I was wondering what would my significant *other* think when I drop my clothes and theres a huge scar all the way around my body like a belt! I was even thinking I could get some of that non-wash off make up to cover it up...but began to think am I too consumed with how I should look and what should be acceptable to others and not to myself?Every since I was heavy I have been overly concerned about my appearance in clothes and naked. Now that my appearance is perfect with clothes on, the skin that hangs and sags on my thighs/stomach/butt when I'm naked has become a concern...not to mention the rashes and back pain.I just wanted to get some feedback from other wls surgery patients who have or have had this fear and what they did to compensate or get over it.

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