Faye Winter of Love Island was left ‘paralysed’ after receiving some really dubious-sounding Botox.
The 28-year-old reality personality has spoken out about a terrifying event in which she was administered with Botox by a ‘untrained’ administrator, resulting in temporary facial paralysis.
The terrifying incident occurred immediately before Faye entered the Love Island villa in the seventh series of the programme in 2021.
Because her regular nurse was unavailable, the Celebrity MasterChef contestant had a new individual inject her with the muscle-relaxing toxin supposed to help smooth out wrinkles in the face.
Unfortunately, Faye explained to Closer, that she later realised he wasn’t ‘medically qualified’ and shortly after the procedure her eyebrows and eyelids had dropped, and her forehead was ‘completely paralysed’.
‘When my regular Botox nurse was on holiday, I went to someone who I mistakenly believed was medically qualified,’ she said.
‘He put the Botox in and within days my eyebrows had dropped into a frown position, and I had droopy eyelids. It completely paralysed my forehead, ruined my face and felt terrifying.’
When she explained her condition to the practitioner, he told her there was nothing he could do and that she would have to wait.
Faye told the magazine that she sobbed for weeks while trying to repair her botched new face with tape to stretch her skin upwards.
The reality personality also emphasised the industry’s lack of restrictions, noting that although all food companies have health and safety requirements, practitioners of cosmetic operations are not even required to wear gloves.
Indeed, there is currently no law in England providing a uniform regulatory structure, as well as no nationally-set training and qualification standards for practitioners providing these therapies.
An amendment to the Health and Care Bill was enacted in March of last year, giving the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care the authority to establish such a national rule.
The proposed plan, which is presently in the consultation process, will make working without a licence an infraction for practitioners and their establishments.
It will also make such procedures unlawful for anybody under the age of 18.
Faye revealed how, at the age of 24, she began receiving lip fillers because she was self-conscious that her lips didn’t ‘frame’ her face and was misled by one-sided Instagram adverts.
She’s seen ‘beautiful’ before and after photos on Instagram from firms advertising inexpensive bargains, but in retrospect, she understands these sites will only display successful treatments, not failed ones.
A recent breast cancer scare has caused Faye to reconsider her connection with her body, and she wishes to remove her breast implants, which she had two months after becoming 18 years old.
‘I want to be able to appreciate my body in a more natural way and when you have a scare, you see your body through a different lens,’ she said.
