Brian Lewis Gonzalez spent most of his life trying not to be seen.

Growing up in Brooklyn, he kept to himself, slouching and layering to disguise the excess breast tissue that made him the target of schoolyard taunts.

“There were summers that I would wear two shirts just to feel comfortable enough to go outside, even if it was 100 degrees,” Gonzalez, now 44, told The Post. “And that was even when I wasn’t that heavy.”

In his early 20s, a devastating breakup led him to put on weight, pushing him up to 300 pounds and further intensifying his deepest insecurity.

“The additional weight made it much worse. It looked very much like a pair of women’s breasts,” he said. “It was tough to socialize. It was tough to do anything.”

But even after he shed over 100 pounds his chest still sagged — a

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