Operation Transformation final review: Magic moments for Marie Clear 

'I have accepted myself' declared the Tipperary woman in a final show that also celebrated the impressive achievements of the other participants 

At the Operation Transformation finale on RTÉ One were participants Thomas Hynes, Andrea Daly, Marie Clear, Lorraine Dempsey and Stephanie Bowden. Picture: Andres Poveda

For Marie Clear’s story alone, this season’s Operation Transformation has been a triumph. Here’s a woman who, not two months ago, said: “I see my double chin. I hate looking at my own hands”.

And in the RTÉ show’s 2023 finale there she stands, in shoes that took work to source, finally arriving from the UK “from someone that made shoes for little people”. And in a self-designed dress, made from two dresses, “to make it what I wanted”.