Gaz Beadle 's wife has been praised online for publicly revealing her surgery scars.
Emma McVey, wife of the Geordie Shore original, told her fans to "never be ashamed of a scar" as they serve as a reminder of life's challenges, alongside revealing the physical scar across her chest thanks to her recent life-saving open-heart surgery.
The mum-of-two, 30, underwent an operation in January to fix three holes in her heart and to repair her tricuspid valve – which is the valve which sits between the heart's two right chambers.