MUM Jane Rylance has revealed she nearly lost a leg and her life — because her skinny jeans were too tight.

The 52-year-old was told she was an hour from needing an amputation after they damaged nerves and muscles.

She had to have four operations and a series of skin grafts and has been scarred for life by her ordeal.

Jane said: “The jeans were literally squeezing the life out of my legs.”

She had been wearing the £28 New Look high-waisted black jeans all day before she collapsed while dancing at a friend’s party in June.

She took a cab to hospital the next morning after her legs ballooned and surgeons diagnosed Compartment ­syndrome, in which nerves and muscles are damaged by increased pressure.

If untreated, lack of blood supply can cause oxygen starvation.

Jane, of Ormskirk, Lancs, said: “The left leg had to be urgently sliced open to relieve the pressure on nerves.

“The doctors told me that I was only an hour away from an amputation. I could have died. It was frightening.”

Jane, who admits the jeans were tighter than usual due to slight weight gain, had three more operations before grafts using skin from her thighs.