I needed a full facelift at age 34 after ‘misusing’ age-defying injections, here’s my warning to other women

An influencer has revealed she had a facelift aged 34 after ‘years of filler abuse’ left her looking unrecognisable.

Ashley Stobart, married to millionaire heir Ed Stobart, has spent thousands of pounds to improve her appearance over the past decade.

The blonde beauty from Cheshire admitted to having treatments including Botox injections, fillers, liposuction, a nose job and even a ‘bleph job’ on her eyelids, which involves removing excess skin or fat.

But in March she opted for a nine-hour full face, neck and lip lift to ‘squeeze out’ 4cm of filler on both sides of her face – avoiding the so-called age-defying procedure that is becoming increasingly popular among younger women. turns.

Years of having filler ‘pumped’ into her face ‘anywhere’ left her looking ‘weird’ and not ‘like me anymore’, she told MailOnline.

Now she is urging young women against the cosmetic ‘tweak’, warning them not to ‘try to fix things by pumping things into (their) faces’.

Ashley said: ‘I had my facelift in March this year, which I had done to correct years of abuse from fillers in my early 20s.

‘The temptation was great in my 20s, as I had worked in the cosmetic surgery industry for many years.

‘At the end of the day they said, “We have some filler or Botox left” and I said, “Yes, put it in.”

‘Then I would just look strange. As a result, I had to undergo many corrective treatments.

‘It’s all about learning, especially with filler and Botox. Now I would honestly say to girls: please, please, please don’t take filler.

“Botox, fair enough, it’s fine. I still get Botox and a little bit of filler in my lips, but I pumped filler everywhere I could.

‘Then I had to straighten all that out, have it taken out and I had loose skin.

‘Now I have put a lot of work into research into a healthy lifestyle.

“It’s all about drinking filtered water, taking probiotics, and not trying to fix things by shoving things in my face and putting a lot of makeup on them.”

Now she also chooses not to openly discuss her treatments on Instagram with her 75,000 followers, as “I have a lot of younger followers,” she told MailOnline.

Instead, the podcast host and entrepreneur whose company Cosmetic advice Skin launched today, talks about the procedures on a ‘subscription platform’.

The mum-of-three added: ‘I’m really happy with the results of my facelift. No more filler for me.

‘I just had under-eye fat transfer a week ago, fat transfer to your face instead of filler, which is going to be the next big thing.

“I don’t want my girls to make the same mistakes I made when I was younger.”

Earlier this month, she also told Olivia Atwood’s So Wrong It’s Right podcast that she was initially rejected by surgeons from the dramatic procedure due to fears she was too young.

But “they ended up losing 1.5 inches on each side of my face,” she added.

‘They were squeezing filler out of my face for hours. I just lost definition in my face.

“I didn’t look like myself anymore because I had been stuffed and stuffed back in.”

‘Of course I was pregnant several times in a short period of time.

‘And if you have fillers and you are pregnant, fillers retain water.’

She told MailOnline that she chose the podcast because it was a chance to “really be open about everything” as she “gets questions all the time” about the treatments she has previously opted for.

“I’m not a performing monkey,” she added.

“I don’t want to look like Kim Kardashian, I just talked about it. As women we are shut down and made to feel stupid for wanting these treatments.”

Fillers – usually injections of collagen or hyaluronic acid – are offered in beauty clinics for as little as £75.

They are said to add volume or reduce wrinkles, with effects lasting up to 18 months.

Yet dermatologists have previously told MailOnline that excess facial filler in younger people can ‘often look unnatural’.

Dr. Emma Wedgeworth, dermatologist and spokesperson for the British Skin Foundation, said: ‘Fillers were originally used to compensate for volume loss in aging faces.

‘When they are used for augmentation in younger people or to change original features, they can often look unnatural.

‘Our eye interprets this as looking older, in the same way as seeing heavy makeup on young children: it looks slightly inappropriate and out of place.’

She added: ‘It is not yet known whether there are long-term effects of having fillers from a very young age.

‘But as fillers become more common among young people, I think we’re definitely starting to see a real distortion in the standards for ideal facial proportion.

‘Fillers are an excellent treatment when used in the right hands, but it is important that they are used with caution.’

Speaking on the So Wrong It’s Right podcast, Ashley also revealed that the surgeon who performed her nose job had since been axed.

She said: ‘On the day of my 18th birthday I booked an appointment to have my lips done. No one really did it then.

‘The man who did my nose was actually turned away. A bad rhinoplasty can literally ruin your life.

‘The thing we have to remember with cosmetic surgery is that you already have a problem with yourself because you’re going to get something done. You can’t deny that.

“So if you get something done and it goes wrong, the consequences are dire.”