Mother-of-three Ruby Tuesday Matthews has been accused of being a terrible influence on young women after she got a Korean facelift at the age of 33

Ruby Tuesday Matthews has been criticized by followers after undergoing an endoscopic facelift in Korea despite being only 33 years old.

The mother of three is currently sharing her recovery on Instagram after having the $16,000 procedure done at a plastic surgery clinic in Seoul last Friday.

She told fans she wanted to be “transparent” about getting a facelift, but many have criticized her for being a bad influence on young women.

The backlash started this week when Ruby started sharing videos showing her swollen and bruised face as she went through post-surgery recovery.

She also shared a montage clip of herself “jumping on a 14-hour flight to Korea” and going through the surgery process.

“I could have said nothing and quietly entered my Benjamin Button era, but transparency felt more interesting,” she captioned the video.

“People will have opinions, the media will have headlines and I will continue to share the unfiltered reality of my life.”

Ruby then thanked Beauty Hopper, a medical tourism provider, and her surgeon Dr. Moon Hyung Suk from Ilchi Plastic Surgery.

Followers flocked to the comments to condemn Ruby for getting a facelift at such a young age and promoting it online.

“It’s kind of chic not to give young women a step-by-step guide to getting a facelift,” one person wrote.

“Can we stop normalizing this?” said another, while someone else commented: ‘Why do women get facelifts at such a young age?’

Someone else wrote a long message ‘to all the young girls’ who watch Ruby’s video, telling them they are ‘beautiful, magical and gorgeous’ in their ‘natural’ skin.

“No facelift or cosmetic procedure will ever change the way you actually see yourself,” she added.

“That’s something only true inner work can do (like breathwork, meditation, getting closer to Source/God/Universe).”

“Only then will you truly see your beautiful BEAUTY, instead of constantly chasing external changes that will only last a short time until you ‘need’ your next fix,” they added.

‘WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL and we deserve to really learn to feel that instead of using band-aids from outside.’

Ruby responded to the post, saying she agreed with the message that “young women need to know that their worth has absolutely nothing to do with how they look.”

“But I also think we need to show them that two things can be true at the same time. You can love yourself deeply, respect your aging body, know your worth and still choose to make a change simply because it makes you feel good,” the influencer argued.

“Self-love doesn’t require you to turn down Botox, surgery, makeup, or anything else, and having it doesn’t mean you’re broken or looking for validation.

‘I’m not trying to become someone else or avoid growing older. Life has left a few chapters on my face that I would like to stop rereading, and I wanted to feel refreshed.

‘That choice can exist alongside self-acceptance, and not instead of it.’

While some criticized Ruby for her Korean facelift, others praised the influencer for being transparent about the process and recovery.

‘I lived for this content and updates! [Applause emoji] for being so open and honest xxx,” one person commented.

“I appreciate you sharing your journey,” said another, while someone else wrote: “Sharing unfiltered is so brave. Well done.’

‘Let’s be honest: if a lot of women had the money to do this (myself included), we would do it. Haters gonna hate,” one user commented.

Ruby has said she had an endoscopic facelift because she wanted to have “damaged skin again” without changing her physical appearance.

The surgery is considered minimally invasive because doctors use a tiny camera with tiny incisions hidden in the hairline to lift and tighten certain areas of the face.

“Initially I thought I would also need an eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) to get that fresher, more awake look,” she explained on social media.

‘After my consultation, my surgeon felt that only the endoscopic lift could achieve what I wanted, so we decided not to do the bleph.

‘The goal was never to change the way I look. I wanted to keep my face and my facial features. Just look a little fresher and more awake, while addressing some of the volume loss through my face.”

Ruby spent four hours under the knife and shared videos of her return to the clinic the next morning to have her drain and facial tape removed.

However, she said she ran into some problems and had to make an emergency visit to an Apple Store as the facial recognition on her iPhone prevented her from accessing her phone while her face was swollen and bruised.

“I literally had to go to the Apple Store in my pajamas and restart my entire phone because there was no way it would recognize my face, and I have so many locks on my phone that I couldn’t do it without facial recognition,” she said.

Ruby spent the first three days after surgery with a very swollen and bruised face. The first day she had difficulty speaking and opening her mouth properly.

‘My face is normally twice as big; Apparently this is the worst day, so let’s hope it starts to drop tomorrow,” she said on the third day.

The influencer then showed fans the small incisions made in her hairline and said she was happy to see that there were no scars on her face.

“It’s actually crazy that I only have that little dot there… no scars on my face, literally just in my hairline and they’re as neat as a pin,” she said.

“I look absolutely damn crazy, so I just have to trust the process.”

She went on to say that she was open and honest about her facelift journey “because there’s no point in pretending that I just woke up ten years younger.”