Big Brother star Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace has revealed she nearly died after her experience with fake diet injections.
The 46-year-old rose to fame in 2006 as a contestant on the seventh series of the reality TV show, alongside the likes of Nikki Grahame and Pete Bennett, who won Big Brother that year.
Aisleyne continued to remain in the public eye after Big Brother, appearing on the likes of Celebrity Coach Trip, Good Morning Britain and Celebrity Botched Bodies.
She’s now opened up about the pressures of fame she faced, saying you have to be ‘thick-skinned’.
‘I had a neck lift after the black-market diet jabs because I kept seeing bad angles of myself in the press,’ she said in an interview with OK! Magazine.
‘People say the nastiest things online just to get a reaction. And listen – if you’re going on reality TV thinking your life will instantly change? It won’t.
‘A lot of people have to go back to their normal jobs, and they can’t handle it. You have to be mentally prepared for that.’
Speaking of her experience with the black-market diet jabs, she warned: ‘DO NOT DO IT.’
Aisleyne went on: ‘Unless you go through your doctor, don’t touch it. I nearly died. I lost my vision.
‘My whole body shut down. People don’t realise how dangerous these black-market jabs are.’
In 2016, Aisleyne revealed another nightmare cosmetic surgery during her appearance on Celebrity Botched Bodies, where she wanted to get her teeth fixed after being left in agony when trying to get veneers, as her teeth were shaved down to stubs.
‘The pain was excruciating. He tortured me. I felt like I was just a guinea pig for him,’ she said, according to The Mirror.
‘I looked at my face, I didn’t recognise who I was.’
She spoke of how her confidence had been ruined after self-esteem issues stemming from her childhood, when she was ‘badly bullied’ at school.
Following the treatment on the reality programme, she said: ‘I’d say my life has improved since the treatment because my confidence is back. I’m happy to smile, I don’t feel so self conscious. I don’t cover my mouth when I’m laughing anymore.’
‘My nerves have gone, I’ve got no anxiety, I don’t need sedating. I believe in dentists again. I can’t wait to show off my gnashers,’ she added.
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The TV star has elsewhere been open about other cosmetic surgery procedures she has had, and previously revealed she raked in £1,000,000 on OnlyFans after getting her ‘t*ts and teeth’ done.
She said: ‘I made a million, especially when I got my bum done, but I’ve done that already now.
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‘I mean, I thought to myself how am I going to make loads of money I’ll get my t*ts and teeth done, and I was right. I’d always been a bit of a show-off, I always liked getting in front of the camera and going to shoots and sticking my bum out and my boobs.’
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