Poppi Cofounder Opens Up About Tummy Tuck After Selling Company for $2B: ‘Mentally Been Really Hard’

Poppi cofounder Allison Ellsworth went under the knife after selling her soda company, Poppi, for just under $2 billion in 2025.

In April, the 33-year-old businesswoman posted a TikTok video saying she was planning to get a tummy tuck because she was finished having children.

Ellsworth told People in an interview published on Tuesday, August 18, that two years ago she got a breast reduction and lift and was happy with the results. She saw the tummy tuck as a “life-changing” surgery.

“I’d gotten on GLP-1s and lost 60 lbs., and there’s this fine line of wanting to look good, but your body’s been through so much in motherhood and breastfeeding and late nights and building Poppi that I was just not myself,” the mom of three told the outlet.

She opted to see Dr. Ryan Neinstein in New York City. After doing two Zoom consultations with the plastic surgeon from Austin, Texas, the entrepreneur traveled to Manhattan for the tummy tuck with a “little BBL.”

“I sold Poppi, and in all honesty, I could afford to go to the best, and I went to the best,” she explained.

However, the recovery period has been different from what Ellsworth, who’s three months post-op, initially expected.

“All my clothes still fit the same. I thought I was going to put them on and they were just going to fall off my hips,” she admitted. “Some of the stuff is actually too tight because it takes up to six months to a year for the swelling to fully go down. So that’s mentally been really hard for me. I’m hurting. You’re fatter than you feel, and you’re just mentally like, ‘What the [expletive] did I do?'”

After getting rid of her surgical garments, she immediately hit the store.

“I’m finally wearing real clothes again, and just like feeling like myself, I went shopping yesterday and bought some swimsuits, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’ve never worn a swimsuit with my belly button ever, my whole life,'” she shared.

When it comes to sharing her personal life on social media, including her plastic surgery journey, Ellsworth said she “was nervous to post, but I’ve always been authentic.”