RELAXED in the reclining chair, Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace lets out a moan of contentment.
Not only is the reality TV star giving her Botox a boost in the doctor’s office, she’s excited at the prospect of walking out of there feeling she looks even more beautiful.
This, in the week when Hollywood royalty Kate Winslet, 50, said she finds the number of women having plastic surgery “terrifying and devastating”.
In an interview, the Titanic star stated “young women have no concept of what being beautiful actually is,” and “they’ve become obsessed with chasing an idea of perfection to get more Instagram likes.”
And despite Aisleyne’s addiction to cosmetic surgery, that has seen her have at least 30 procedures, she completely agrees with Kate.
Aisleyne, 46, says: “Kate Winslet bravely proclaimed this week that she is worried about the amount of ‘tweakments’ she is encountering on women.
“She stated that these ladies ‘do everything they can to not be themselves. And do they know what (injectables) they are putting in? The disregard for one’s health is terrifying. It bothers me now more than ever. It is f***ing chaos out there’.
“And do you know what? She is bang on: I’m the chaos she’s talking about.
“I have spent over £100,000 on at least 30 cosmetic procedures, and after all of that I’m still standing here, a cautionary tale.
“Because here’s the devastating truth: I don’t think I’m beautiful, and I still want more.
“I’ve had everything from an £18k Brazilian Butt Lift, multiple rounds of liposuction, a neck lift, eyelid surgery and at least four boob jobs with the largest implants you can legally get in the UK to give me a 34FF cleavage.
“I’ve had Botox, fillers, and have even taken a terrifying counterfeit Ozempic weight-loss jab, which I got off the black market because I wasn’t overweight enough.
“I believed my surgery spree made me look ten years younger but the truth is I am currently going through the process of having to book in for another procedure as I was botched by my last procedure for the removal of sagging skin around my jawline in May last year.
“I was raving about the results at first, but then discovered the surgeon has butchered me, by giving me scars that look like Freddy Krueger has raked his fingers over my face, it’s devastating.
“And this is why I agree with Kate, as women are seeing surgery as ‘normal’ when it isn’t.
I’m really caught in the matrix. I am in too deep
“It’s a huge risk and the actress is doing an important thing by shining a light on that. I had to go to another doctor to see about getting it fixed, and he quoted me an astronomical £39,000 just to rectify the previous operation which itself cost £5,000.
“But eventually the surgeon turned that money down as he said my case was too complex and he needed to hand it over to his senior, the one who taught him, that’s how badly my looks have been ruined.
“The surgeries have not been worth it for what I’ve had to go through mentally, emotionally and now physically with these scars.
“But here’s the really messed-up part, I’m still going back under the surgeon’s knife to rectify it. I’m really caught in the matrix with this, I am in too deep. Which is why Kate is right when she enthuses that the pressure on young girls is crushing.
“I was once one of these young girls feeling the need to look how society expected, when I had my first boob job at the age of 24.
“We are turning into clones, all looking the same.
“Young girls are appearing older than they are because of all the work they’re having done. It’s so sad.
“Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind Botox.
“It’s been in the healthcare industry for years, used for things like the repetitive stress injury tennis elbow since the Nineties, so it’s long-tested on humans.
The surgeries have not been worth it for what I’ve had to go through mentally, emotionally and now physically with these scars
“In my opinion filler and some cosmetic procedures can do wonders for people’s confidence, but it should never be about chasing an Instagram trend. Sometimes, it can address an insecurity that is holding you back.
“I am currently in the process of opening up a beauty clinic in North London, after becoming a fully registered teacher in Botox and filler, and one of my clients was riddled with insecurities and I changed that for her with a little bit of filler in her nose.
“Even with success stories, it is terrifying to hear the sheer volume of victims requiring urgent corrective care on the already overburdened NHS, particularly following procedures performed abroad.
GAMBLING NATURAL BEAUTY
“According to The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons there has been a 94 per cent rise in these, in just three years.
“Filler, unless it’s done by the right practitioner, is absolutely ruining girls’ faces.
“More power to Kate for not having cosmetic surgery, and there is no question she is talking sense. Although this beautiful movie industry powerhouse is growing old gracefully, and looking incredible while she does so, I don’t want to mature like a fine wine. I want to grow out of my youthful face and body kicking and screaming.
“The crux of the problem is that surgery is so easily accessible, young girls see a cosmetically-enhanced 25-year-old stunner on Love Island and want to copy.
“They’re changing their natural beauty, and that’s a real shame.
“It’s such a gamble as there are cosmetic ‘doctors’ on social media who post before and after pictures that are highly edited, and often simply not true, and people fall for the trick.
“Even after all the money I’ve spent, the physical pain, and now being butchered and having to spend another fortune to fix it, I understand the obsession that Kate is railing against.
“If someone wants to make a choice to change their body, you have to give them the grace and space to do that.
“But I’m living proof of the high price you pay for chasing that perfect, snatched look.
“Kate Winslet thinks it’s terrifying and she’s absolutely right. I’m living the terrifying part right now.”
