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Cutting
away the years
The
£4,800 Linda spent on a new face was worth every penny when her 22
year old son said she looked like an older version of Denise Van Outen.
The
45 year old had spent the money having a lower face lift, surgery on her
eyelids and laser treatment under her lower eyelids. Before she
went under the surgeon's knife, her son refused to go out with her even
after he had grown out of his teenage years. But as soon as he saw
her looking like the Essex girl's older sister, he suddenly suggested
they went on a shopping trip together. "I think it was a good investment.
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If
I'd had a crystal ball I would have paid double that", she said visible pleased at her son's U turn.
Looking at her, the fact she now
has long blonde hair, thanks to her hair extensions and bleach, could have
something to do with her transformation. So did she really need to
pay out thousands of pounds? Before, Linda was a short haired redhead.
She insists it much more than a new hairstyle. "It wouldn't have
made any difference, not with that face, so drawn and so miserable".
As
a special constable, she is getting a different reaction from people in
the street, even with her blonde hair hidden under a hat. When she worked
on New Year's Eve, people came up to her asking for a New Year kiss.
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They wouldn't have done that with the old face, I'm convinced".
Now,
she is approached by shop assistants all the time. "They never used to do that when I was a redhead". But a friend, never one to mince
her words, said "it's got nothing to do with your hair, you don't
look like a hard faced old cow now!".
Linda was featured in a
national newspaper recently under the heading "I wanted to be a Cindy doll. "That Cindy is Cindy Jackson, the American who spent £60,000 on plastic surgery, completely transforming her self into a
doll-like women. Although Linda was originally inspired by an article in the same newspaper about Cindy, the Welney women denies she wants to
look like her. "I've reinvented myself but I didn't set out to
look like Cindy. Anyway, she looks a lot better because she has had
more time, she has been doing it for 10 years.
She does not want to
be like her either. "I've got a husband. I am glad I have got a husband. I am not going to leave him and live her lifestyle".
They
have been on daytime TV together to explain why she is a happier person
since having cosmetic surgery because of the way people treated her.
Although he likes her long blonde hair, he did not want her to have cosmetic
surgery in the first place she said.
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What
does he think now? "He reacts differently to me really, not that he
was nasty to me before, he is just a bit softer to me. I am not hard, I never have been."
Although she is still exactly the same
person as she was before inside, Linda say as she no longer looks
miserable.
She now looks younger and is dressing younger, but not
too young, she hastened to add. "I don't want people talking about me, I don't want to make a spectacle of myself."
Since buying a
new face, she says she has been credited with "more brains,
more intelligence, and more experience" than before.
She had
been working in a solicitors office but found that the older she was
getting, the more she was being pushed to the back of the building, not
seeing many clients at all. She left soon after the surgery.
"I thought, 'if they can't treat me that way with my old looks, I wont do it with my new looks.'"
She has had six job offers since the
surgery. but has decided to become an independent adviser to help other
people contemplating the surgeons knife.
Linda ended up having
cosmetic surgery but it was an easy route there: "when I was going through all this, there was nowhere to go to get information, no register for
cosmetic surgeons, it was all pretty hit and miss really."
She
added: " it was a minefield. You were either given scant information or you wouldn't be given any at all. It was like swimming in a muddy puddle."
Now, she said: " I can tell them what risks
are involved, what aftercare, how much it is going to cost. I am
not medically qualified, I must emphasise that, but I am capable of doing
research, and I can give people the facts that they need."
"I saw a young girl who was only 23, and wanted a new nose, lip enhancement, a
face lift and breast implants, and there was absolutely nothing wrong wit
her. No amount of cosmetic surgery was going to help that person,
she would never ever be satisfied."
Linda acknowledges that there
are may women who would never touch cosmetic surgery in a million years,
whatever they looked like. But meeting her, she appears genuinely hap
pier since going under the surgeons knife, but it sounds as though she
would be happier still if she had even more surgery.
The first
things she needs is dermabrassion to the upper lip to get rid of the
lines, she says. Later in the year she wants to have an endoscopic
brow lift which will help lift the eyebrows. take the lines out of
the forehead and open up the eyes a bit more. "Hopefully that will be the face looking good, but not plastic."
She added; "
I have to trim my hips with diet and exercise but the bits of fat that
wont move with this regime will have to be subjected to liposuction.
"These are the bits of fat that are laid down by hormones and no amount of
exercise will get rid of them. I don't think I will go for a breast enlargement or I might end up looking like Dolly Parton !"
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