MUCKING out the stables in my wellies, without a scrap of make-up on, it is hard to believe I was once a top lads’ mag model.
And while posing for publications like Playboy and Zoo in the Noughties was great fun, it came at a price.
Former lads’ mag model Lisa Kemp has reversed all traces of her cosmetic enhancements[/caption]
Lucy spent £80,000 on cosmetic enhancements including four boob jobs[/caption]
Desperate to look like Keeley Hazell and Lucy Pinder — the glamour industry’s big stars of the day — I spent £80,000 on fillers, breast implants, Botox, veneers, hair extensions and treatments.
There was barely a cosmetic procedure I didn’t try.
But after 20 years of being “fake”, all traces of cosmetic enhancements have been banished from my face and body.
I’ve had my fillers dissolved and even had corrective surgery on my face to reverse years of tweakments.
I’ve even ditched the eyelash extensions and make-up.
Now, at the age of 40, I love my new, natural look and I was glad to hear of Geordie Shore star Chloe Ferry’s decision to have her cosmetic surgery reversed.
Chloe, 29, is believed to have spent up to £50,000 on nose jobs, breast implants, fillers, eyebrow lifts, botox and liposuction.
This week she thanked fans for their support as she went to hospital to embark on “a journey to correct my previous work”, starting with having her Brazilian bum lift reversed.
She explained that while she had hoped cosmetic surgery would solve all her problems, it only added to them, sparking depression, anxiety and physical discomfort.
It ultimately left her feeling much worse about herself.
Such honesty from a powerful influencer like Chloe is a breath of fresh air.
Realising that cosmetic tweak after tweak won’t make you happy is a hard reality to accept.
But once you get there — like I did — it frees you.
You accept yourself for who you are and what you really look like.
In my modelling heyday, I felt I HAD to look a certain way.
Big boobs were important, thanks to stars like Katie Price and Pamela Anderson.
Fake breasts brought you more work and heftier paychecks.
Later, when a wave of younger models came along, I found myself battling against my ageing face with Botox and fillers.
I felt I had to fight to stay glamorous.
Geordie Shore star Chloe Ferry has decided to have her cosmetic surgery reversed[/caption]
Lucy now lives in the countryside and is a horse-trainer and show-jumper[/caption]
How times have changed.
These days you’ll find me at home in the lovely Bedfordshire countryside with my partner, surrounded by my beloved horses and blissfully content with my new life as a horse-trainer and show-jumper.
But I worry about young girls getting their lips plumped up to the size of baboons’ bums, to look like everyone else on TikTok.
The saddest thing is, these girls aren’t even out having fun like me and my fellow glamour models were in the Noughties.
We were out dancing with pals, celebrating our glamorous looks.
And we embraced our differences, each with our own individual style and personality.
Now girls seem to spend every spare penny on fillers and Botox instead of going out with their mates.
They are on their own in their bedrooms, contouring away like it’s an art form.
Taking selfie after selfie and filtering the hell out of their snaps until they are “perfect” enough to post online.
Social media and reality TV stars like the Kardashians have not helped with the trend.
‘PAINFUL AND EXPENSIVE’
I wasn’t the slightest bit surprised to hear that, according to a recent government report, 36 per cent of adolescents would do “whatever it takes” to look good.
No wonder it’s affecting their mental health.
It’s brilliant Chloe has realised enough is enough, but reversing cosmetic work is painful and expensive.
My boob jobs, Botox and fillers helped me carve out a successful glamour modelling career.
I was earning £4,000 a week doing practically nothing.
Posing for lads’ mag photos is pretty easy.
My career catapulted when I got a boob job on finance, going from a 28B to 30DD when I was 18.
Soon after, I was scouted by a glamour model photographer at a car show in Birmingham.
That says it all, doesn’t it?
Playboy soon came knocking at my door.
But my youthful looks and big boobs weren’t enough when I reached my late twenties.
I needed to keep up with the younger models.
I noticed lines and wrinkles, so I had my cupid’s bow and forehead Botoxed and it spiralled from there.
Chloe Ferry before her cosmetic enhancements[/caption]
Chloe is believed to have spent up to £50,000 on nose jobs, breast implants, fillers, eyebrow lifts, botox and liposuction[/caption]
In my twenties and thirties I had so many tweakments I lost track.
I spent around £16,000 on cheek and lip fillers, £10,000 on Botox, £4,500 on veneers and £10,000 on hair extensions.
I had four boob jobs in total, costing £4,500 each and taking me from a natural 28B to a huge 32FF.
I can remember how amazing I felt, at first.
I finally had this incredible cleavage and looked fabulous in swimwear.
With my long, blonde hair extensions, it was like I’d arrived into womanhood.
Sadly, women don’t realise the toll fillers take.
Your skin gets stretched over time and as your collagen levels naturally fall with age, it does not bounce back when you have the fillers dissolved.
I recently read that there’s been a 27 per cent drop in people getting fillers and I constantly hear of women having theirs dissolved.
It’s a step in the right direction.
I just hope Chloe’s skin is young and elastic enough to repair itself if she dissolves hers.
I wasn’t so lucky.
When I had mine dissolved in 2020, my face became so sunken and saggy I had a mini facelift.
It cost £10,000 and I had intense headaches afterwards and will have the scars for ever.
Fortunately, my sister is trained in aesthetic procedures and dissolved my fillers for me, saving me around £1,000.
It is also more painful than having fillers and I had a lot of bruising and swelling.
Having my breast implants removed cost around £6,000.
I saw a very kind surgeon in Belgium, but I know it can be up to £16,000 for people in the UK.
Now, I urge women to think twice before getting procedures.
It won’t make you happy.
My enhancements made me rich, but I wish I’d known the joy of being at peace with how I really look — like I do now.
My happy place is in my tracksuit and wellies, not the surgeon’s clinic.
Katie Price back in her Jordan days[/caption]
U-TURN WILL TAKE TIME
ASHTON COLLINS, director of Save Face, which campaigns for safer cosmetic procedures, says:
“Fillers are dissolved by injecting an enzyme called hyaluronidase, which breaks down the material that makes up the filler – usually hyaluronic acid.
The body can then naturally break down the filler and absorb it.
It usually requires multiple injections and can take up to a fortnight for the enzyme to take full effect.
It’s difficult to isolate a very small area, as the product spreads upon injection.
So if you’re having lip fillers dissolved, it will most likely reverse 7 your whole lip enhancement.”
