Tulisa's facial surgery 'confession': what has star done to her face
N-Dubz singer and former X Factor star Tulisa Contostavlos is back on our screens, flying to Australia to take part in I'm A Celebrity… alongside Coleen Rooney, McFly star Danny Jones and Love Island icon Maura Higgins.
Before heading to the other side of the world, Tulisa sat down with Loose Women star Olivia Attwood for an access all areas chat, with Tulisa sharing the work she's had done on her face over the years.
What work has Tulisa had?
Tulisa, 36, told Olivia that she hadn't had "any surgery until recently, only fillers," explaining that she first started getting injectables after a bout of ill health left her face inflamed and swollen.
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"I hadn't had any surgery until, confession time, recently," she began. "All the time before there was no surgery, it was only fillers."
She went on to share that at 24 she had her first Bell's palsy attack, explaining: "I had a massive burst of inflammation and it went down but my whole face dropped. I couldn't move it, my face remained like that for seven months, I didn't go out, I just hid in the house."
"That was very stressful and my face still wasn't right so I started getting fillers to balance out the symmetry," she added, calling it a "vicious cycle" of trying to fix her face.
Can filled restore facial symmetry?
HELLO! spoke to aesthetic doctor and founder of Academy Face Design, Dr. Ivy for her opinion on the effectiveness of filler for restoring facial symmetry and she confirmed this is a good method.
"Dermal facial fillers are a fantastic way to balance the face and achieve facial symmetry," she confirmed. "Hyaluronic acid dermal fillers are a versatile injectable treatment that can help restore volume, create contour and balance to specific areas of the face, by addressing 3D facial asymmetries.
"The best way to achieve facial harmony is to administer dermal filler by micro-droplet injections to naturally balance and reshape the face. My signature treatment, Face Design, uses the micro-droplet injection technique. So it's not about if filler is the best option for balancing the face, it's about the technique used to administer the filler, which offers a slew of benefits," she confirms.
Tulisa's Bell's palsy
After her initial attack, Tulisa was then free of Bell's palsy attacks for several years before it flared up again, a time the star called "scary", prompting her to dissolve all of her filler due to the swelling she was experiencing, then having it reinjected elsewhere to match the swelling.
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"This went all the way up until this year," Tulisa told Olivia, adding: "I had good days and bad days and I'd sometimes take steroids to bring it down. In some interviews I looked fine, in others you'd ask, 'What the hell is going on with her face?'"
This year, Tulisa's doctor finally found three "chronically infected cysts" around her cheek during an explorative operation, with "no idea" of the cause.
"I came out of the operation instantly less swollen," Tulisa added, sharing: "I still have the inflammation but it's less swollen." She explained her doctor plans to operate in two months, adding at present she only has filler in her lips, but the inflammation causes her to have a "plumped look".
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With more operations around the corner, here's hoping Tulisa will feel back to herself soon.
