Danniella Westbrook enjoys a beach day in Portugal after admitting she hates her new face

Danniella Westbrook donned a plunging black swimsuit on Thursday to enjoy a sunny beach day in Portugal.

The former EastEnders star, 49, enjoyed a walk by the ocean after flying overseas for reconstruction surgery.

Danniella was in a good mood as she swept her blonde locks into a sleek topknot while enjoying her relaxing beach vacation.

Despite undergoing another procedure in Turkey to save her collapsed face, Danniella has since admitted that she hates her new face.

Danniella had a thread lift, liposuction in her cheeks and lips, fat grafting on her chin and her jawline etched after her septum collapsed from excessive drug use in 2002.

On Instagram, the actress shared a photo of herself taken before surgery and said she couldn’t believe what was done to her.

She wrote, “Three months ago I looked like this and thought I looked awful. I’d give my world to look like this again…

“I can’t believe what was done to me by this operation.”

Since her surgery, Danniella wore thick bandages around her head and nose, but took them off earlier this month.

The television personality is shocked after she was hospitalized again hours after landing in Portugal due to a health hazard.

Taking to her Instagram Stories on Sunday, she wrote, “Only I was able to land back in Portugal after surgery and then end up in hospital.

“The pain I have experienced is unreal, the most terrifying few days. Literally need it like a hole in your head.”

When Danniella first woke up after the lengthy procedure, she said she looked “like she’d done 10 rounds with Tyson Fury.”

She had wanted the reconstruction for seven years, but couldn’t find a surgeon who would operate because her septum had completely collapsed.

She told The Sun: ‘I was very scared. My mother and my son Kai were constantly on the phone – I made a will before I left and my son is the executor of it.

‘But luckily I’m still here and I came through the other side. Someone is looking over me. I looked like I went 10 rounds with Tyson Fury.

“But the swelling actually subsided very quickly. I am already happy with the results.’

Danniella says she paid for the surgery herself, despite being offered freebies from clinics around the world, after a health scare left her in intensive care last year because she struggled to breathe through her nose.

While in the recovery phase, Danniella just needs to stick to ibuprofen and acetaminophen, as any stronger painkiller could be a trigger for her previous cocaine addiction.

Danniella previously revealed she needed five surgeries to correct her ‘collapsing’ face due to a previous cocaine addiction and osteoporosis, and planned to have it done on the NHS.

She told The Sun: ‘I’ve been trying to get someone to do it for the past seven years but they said no in case it failed and they got cut.

‘Plastic surgeons wanted £500,000 to change my face, so I thought I’d never get it done. It was only because I went to intensive care before Christmas.

“I couldn’t breathe because I had a cold. There was a build up of fluid and after falling asleep I couldn’t wake up properly and ended up in ICU.

“I was sent to Aintree Hospital in Liverpool and that’s only because I was in front of the right doctors, otherwise I would be waiting to find someone. “They’re doing it for me now under the NHS.”

Danniella previously underwent a rib insertion procedure in 2018 after osteoporosis rotted away her cheekbones and gums and, having received lip filler and Botox for the past year, in addition to surgery on her face, she hopes to get back to her best.

The actress’s struggles with drugs have been widely publicized and her nose was famously reconstructed after her septum collapsed from excessive cocaine use in 2002.

At the height of her use, she reportedly used up to five grams of cocaine a day, wasting nearly £250,000 on the drug.