A beautician has issued a warning after filler treatment "turned her into a Barbie".
Emily Spence first got hooked on dermal fillers when she was 18 years old. Emily is now 28 and said the obsession was down to insecurities with her body.
She added: "I had body dysmorphia. I turned myself into a Barbie."
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Emily started suffering with body dysmorphia as a teenager and became obsessed with her weight. She said: “I’d hardly eat and then binge at the end of the day. I became more self-conscious as I hit 18 and started going out. I felt fat.”
Emily started getting lip filler treatment and got it topped up every few months. She continued to go bigger with each appointment and eventually spent £5,000 on treatment in 2018 when she got her lip filler built up to 5ml, and had jaw, chin and cheek fillers.
Emily also had jaw surgery to change her face shape, but she realised she had "taken it too far" when she could no longer recognise herself in the mirror.
She said: “I was obsessed with how I looked and I could never be happy. I had jaw filler to make my face square and made my lips massive.
“I started to have therapy and realised I was struggling with body dysmorphia. I had all the jaw and chin filler dissolved so my face looked like me. And now I just have a little bit of lip filler in."
Emily works as a nurse and clinician in Derbyshire and she now warns clients before giving filler treatment. She said: "I enhance peoples natural beauty whilst keeping them looking like their own identity.
“I would never let a client take it too far so that they didn’t look like themselves anymore like I did. I’ll always have an initial chat with them first and ask why they want fillers. I want to make sure others don’t change themselves when they are not happy within.
“If I don’t think it’s beneficial for them or there not doing it for the right reasons then I’ll refuse to do it. When I had filler done no one ever thought to do these checks or question if the reasons I was getting it done.
“I think it’s so important to check that clients are having fillers done for the right reasons.”
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