The man behind the ‘132 Lb. Scrotum’

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DOUBLE ALBUM: Wesley Warren,, who suffers from a rare medical condition which enlarges his scrotum, underwent corrective surgery.

Wesley Warren is surprisingly upbeat and self-deprecating for a guy who, up until recently, spent the past five years with a freakishly huge scrotum — the result of a rare medical condition called “scrotal lymphedema.”

“I was expecting to be stared at — if you look like a freak you expect people to look at you like you’re a freak,” Warren, 49, told The Post from his home in Las Vegas. “I would only get upset when, every once-in-a-while, some person with no manners would stare at me and start laughing . . . and give me that ‘freak passing by’ look. That caused me in the past to say a ‘word’ or two with regards to rudeness,” he says, laughing. “Besides, I was OK with the stares. That’s what I was expecting.”

Warren’s story will be told in Monday night’s one-hour TLC special, “The Man With the 132 Lb. Scrotum,” which recounts his journey, from discovering his malady in 2008 to dealing with its repercussions (he turned hooded sweatshirts upside down and used them as pants) to eventually finding Dr. Joel Gelman, who removed the 132-pound scrotum in April during a 14-hour operation.

(Warren says it was closer to 200 pounds — he knows because, just prior to his surgery, he weighed it on a recycling scale.)

Warren, who’s single, says his ordeal began when he woke up with a shooting pain in his groin, “the worst pain I ever felt in my life,” he says. Over the next nine months, every six days or so, he would experience what he says felt like “a sensational carpet burn” in his groin, then severe cold and shaking — followed by his scrotum growing uncontrollably larger and larger. “It got so bad one day that I stood in my living room and cried,” he says. “There was a fresh breakage of skin . . . and it stung to no end.”

Warren says he’s scheduled for even more surgery (on his urethra) later this month.

“I can see a light at the end of the tunnel, but I’m still in the tunnel,” he says. After previously calling in to Howard Stern’s Sirius/XM radio show — he’ll return as an in-studio guest this Monday — Warren received an outpouring of affection from listeners in the form of donations and supportive e-mails, which he says he’ll never forget.

“If not for the generosity of those people who have helped me, I’d be out on the street and disabled,” he says, starting to cry. “I want to give the biggest ‘thank you’ in the world to these people — as big as the Big Apple.”