A WOMAN who begged surgeons for a facelift at 34 has revealed the shocking mess they found during the operation.
Entrepreneur and influencer Ashley Stobart first broached the idea of having the cosmetic surgery aged 30, but couldn’t find anyone who would do it.
She eventually did, and underwent the op four years later, when it cost her a whopping £34,000.
“People at the time were like, she’s crazy. Now everyone’s talking about facelifts!” she laughed during an episode of the In the Make-up Chair podcast.
But opening up about the surgery, which took nine and a half hours, Ashley, now 35, admitted she was completely unaware of the lasting effect her filler habit had had over the years until she had the facelift.
“He (the surgeon) was picking filler (out of my face),” she said.
“My husband kept ringing up and being like, is she okay? And they were like, we just can’t get all this s**t off.
“It was just like green balls of puss that had got like infected.
“It’s scary because over time, like all these little bits of filler, you don’t think add up to you actually having a face kind of full of filler.”
In fact, Ashley went as far as saying she’d “abused” her face by having so much filler over the years, as it had ended up stretching her skin so dramatically – with the surgeon removing a staggering four inches of skin from each side of her face.
“Honestly, from years of filling, dissolving, filling, dissolving, treating, the new s***, all this, I just had lost definition in my face,” she explained previously.
”I didn’t look like me anymore because I’d been filled up, put back in.
”Obviously, I was pregnant a number of times in a short period of time.
”And when you have got fillers and you’re pregnant, fillers hold on to water.
”So my face was like… massive. And then I had this double chin, which was not a good look.
”So yeah, I just was like, I need a facelift and I went and had one.”
The decision to have the operation at such a young age has seen Ashley face cruel comments from trolls.
But she previously said she does her best not to let the criticism get to her.
What are the risks of getting surgery abroad?
IT’S important to do your research if you’re thinking about having cosmetic surgery abroad.
It can cost less than in the UK, but you need to weigh up potential savings against the potential risks.
Safety standards in different countries may not be as high.
No surgery is risk-free. Complications can happen after surgery in the UK or abroad.
If you have complications after an operation in the UK, the surgeon is responsible for providing follow-up treatment.
Overseas clinics may not provide follow-up treatment, or they may not provide it to the same standard as in the UK.
Also, they may not have a healthcare professional in the UK you can visit if you have any problems.
Source: NHS
‘It’s my money, so I decided to go and be very well-informed on my decision and do it very safely,” she said.
Before adding of the trolling: “It just needs to stop – all this taking the p*ss out of women!”
