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Susan Knox

Love Island's Jess did her own botox days before villa entrance to avoid 'biggest fear'

Love Island star Jess Harding has admitted that she administered her own Botox injections before she headed to the famous villa.

Jess, 22, was terrified of having wrinkles on TV so in a bid to rid herself of any ageing process, she made sure that she was topped up before making her Love Island debut - despite only being in her very early twenties.

Before heading into the villa, blonde beauty Jess revealed that she has been receiving botox injections and fillers since she was 18-years-old.

Jess runs her own west London cosmetic procedure company, called Candy Aesthetics, where she also offers fat-dissolving treatments and Brazilian bum lifts.

While Jess and her fellow beautician friends often do one another's procedures, the islander decided that she would inject her own botox before heading off on Love Island for a summer she will never forget.

Jess Harding works as a beauty practitioner (Instagram/jesshardingox)
Love Island star Jess was terrified of having wrinkles on national TV (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

“The other day I did do my own Botox because no one was available. It was horrible but I had to do it, you can’t have wrinkles on telly.”

Although she often has several different cosmetic enhancements, Jess insisted it’s 'nothing extreme'.

"I do have a little bit of Botox and filler. I just got it because when it’s your job it’s quite easy to just say, ‘Go on then.’ A lot of the practitioners work together. I’ve had so many of my practitioner friends come to me, like, ‘Babe, can you just put it in my face?’

"To us it’s nothing, and people are spending hundreds and thousands. It’s easily influenced but I’m quite scared of needles, considering it’s my job."

Jess first started dabbling in her own procedures aged just 18, but now has more since joining the industry - after she was sacked from her job at a plumbers.

"When it’s cheap and you can get someone else to do it for you, you can’t really turn it down,” she said before entering the villa.

“I had my lips done, since I was 18 I had such little lips, but it started off getting a little bit in my cheeks, just because it gives off that nice contour, it just gives a structure to the face.

“I don’t think it looks fake or anything like that."

Since being in the villa, Jess has fast become a fan favourite thanks to her bubbly personality and self-confidence.

Before entering into the villa, Jess revealed that she didn't feel the need to lose any weight as she is confident not being a 'skinny size 6' and loves her boobs and bum too much to lose any weight.

Love Island continued tonight at 9pm on ITV2.

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