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LONDON. — There’s no denying female celebrities face intense pressure to look forever young and impossibly hot — but that pursuit of bodily perfection can come at a very high price indeed.
From Olivia Attwood‘s £3k boob job that gave her 32E “watermelons” to Marnie Simpson’s failed breast augmentation that left her “oozing green pus”, more and more famous faces have been left seriously regretting their nips ‘n’ tucks.
Here, we reveal showbiz’s most shocking plastic surgery nightmares (and — trigger warning — it might put you off forever).
The booming plastic surgery industry is estimated to be worth US$112billion.
Of course, the risks associated with plastic surgery are no secret.
SOPHIE KASAEI
The Geordie Shore star previously told how being trolled over her appearance led to her getting a BBL.
But instead, Sophie says it was one of her biggest regrets in life, recalling how she was left with an “alien bum.”
In an exclusive interview with Fabulous, The Only Way Is Essex star, who went under the knife in a filthy hospital in Turkey, explained: “It’s quite sad to think that at the age of 24, I had these horrible insecurities that had been drilled into me from the press and public.
“I was just constantly being criticised, for being ‘ugly’ and ‘fat’, a ‘whale’, constantly ‘fat s**g’ and ‘embarrassing to society’, ‘giving Newcastle a bad name’, ‘pigs in wigs’, and they’d all say we look ‘like drag queens’. The list goes on and on.”
So when the Geordie legend received a DM offering her a free BBL from a clinic in Turkey, she didn’t think twice.
Recalling the shocking aftermath after waking up from surgery in 2016, she said: “I can only explain it as absolute hell. I woke up the next day, and I was like ‘what the f**k have I done?’”
“I remember looking in the mirror and my bum looked like it had been squashed. It was flat and it was black and blue.
“I had blood dripping everywhere. It was like a murder scene. It looked like someone came in and stabbed us. I couldn’t walk. I had bandages everywhere.” But things were about to get a whole lot worse when six weeks later, while on a luxury trip to Mexico with an ex-partner, she suddenly started feeling seriously unwell.
Sophie recalled: “Then it progressed, and my left leg started getting shooting pains, and that was going right up to my back.
“My leg couldn’t move. It got to the point where my leg froze. When I was sitting down the pain was getting worse and worse.”
Terrified, Sophie was admitted to hospital, where doctors diagnosed an abscess. She immediately flew back to Newcastle, was taken straight to A&E and rushed into emergency surgery.
She said: “I remember them saying, ‘We’ll have to slice your bum cheek open’. I was going, ‘Please, please don’t do that, please, please, I’m gonna be left with such a scar’, and they were like, ‘If we don’t do it, you’ll be dead.’
Not only did the surgeons drain an entire litre of puss from Sophie’s abscess, but for the next six months, she found herself in and out of the hospital.
The reality star added: “Every other day for six months I had to go to the hospital to get it packed. I remember when they took the pack out, you could see the insides of my body.
“It was disgusting and the pain was awful.”
MARNIE SIMPSON
Marnie Simpson previously told how a failed breast augmentation left her with severe wounds that were “oozing green pus.”
After rising to fame on Geordie Shore, online trolls made her feel self-conscious about her body, leading her to undergo a breast lift and nipple alteration in 2014 — but nothing could’ve prepared her for the severity of the scarring.
Speaking on Celebrity Botched Up Bodies, the 34-year-old said: “I had big wounds which were oozing. They were oozing green pus.
“They were really deep gashes, it looked like I had been attacked by an animal.”
The reality star, who shares three children with her husband, XFactor‘s Casey Johnson — Rox, Oax, and Kixee — went on to explain how trolls took a serious toll on her confidence.
“I was really confident and liked myself more before Geordie Shore,” she said. “Being on TV put pressure on to look good . . . It made me feel so insecure.”
Following the botched surgery, the star, who has also undergone a nose job, lip fillers, and Botox, didn’t feel confident enough to get naked in front of her then-fiancé Ricky Rayment, who she split from in 2015. “I was left with uneven nipple size and really severe scarring underneath and around the nipples, leaving me so insecure that I felt worse than I had beforehand,” she said, speaking in the Daily Star.
“It’s massively affecting my self-esteem and making me feel c**p. I just want to be confident and go out without constantly worrying about it.”
In 2015, Marnie Simpson had corrective breast surgery and later admitted she wished she’d done more research before going ahead with her first procedure.
AISLEYNE HORGAN WALLACE
In 2016, former reality star Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace, who first rose to fame on the seventh series of Big Brother in 2006, spoke about her nightmare trip to the dentist, which left her with a wonky smile.
Appearing on an episode of Celebrity Botched Bodies, the 47-year-old sought help to repair her teeth after being left in severe pain from a veneers procedure that saw them shaved down into short stubs.
She recalled: “The pain was excruciating. He tortured me. I felt like I was just a guinea pig for him.”
After six hours of surgery with the doctor, who had previously treated several of her celebrity friends, Aisleyne was left devastated by the results.
Recalling how her teeth were left pointing in different directions, she said: “I looked at my face, I didn’t recognise who I was.”
After going back several times to try and get her teeth fixed, Aisleyne developed an irrational fear of the dentist and was left feeling like she couldn’t smile.
“Since he damaged my teeth any red carpet event I go to, I do not open my mouth when I smile,” she admitted. “It’s made me really self conscious.”
On the show, Aisleyne visited cosmetic dentist Adam Slade, who removed her veneers, revealing the remnants of her teeth.
When she returned to get her temporary veneers fitted with permanent ones, she was delighted that he’d managed to correct the “monstrosity” in her mouth.
“I’d say my life has improved since the treatment because my confidence is back,” she said. “I’m happy to smile, I don’t feel so self conscious. I don’t cover my mouth when I’m laughing anymore.” — Sun Club
