Geordie Shore's Sophie Kasaei reveals she’s ‘addicted’ to lip filler despite having a botched procedure - as doctors warn her she needs to stop

  • Geordie Shore star Sophie Kasaei has admitted she's addicted to lip filler
  • First starting trying to plump up her pout aged 20 with disastrous results 
  • She's been advised to stop having the injections by a plastic surgeon
  • 26-year-old appears on this week's Celebrity Botched Up Bodies
  • Said it will be hard to stop as she's under pressure to look good 

By Lucy Waterlow for MailOnline

Published: 11:32 EST, 6 October 2016 | Updated: 16:11 EST, 6 October 2016

Geordie Shore star Sophie Kasaei has admitted she's addicted to lip filler after being advised to stop having the injections by a plastic surgeon.

The 26-year-old from Newcastle reveals on this week's Celebrity Botched Up Bodies that she first starting trying to plump up her pout before she was famous with disastrous results.

Despite having a bad reaction to the cut-price filler that left her looking 'like the Elephant Man', she wasn't put off and regularly continues to have the beauty treatment.

Geordie Shore star Sophie Kasaei has admitted she's addicted to lip filler as she feels under pressure to have the perfect pout

Geordie Shore star Sophie Kasaei has admitted she's addicted to lip filler as she feels under pressure to have the perfect pout

Sophie appears on this week's Celebrity Botched Up Bodies where she admits filler has made her lips hard and lumpy - but she still doesn't have to stop having the beauty treatment

Sophie appears on this week's Celebrity Botched Up Bodies where she admits filler has made her lips hard and lumpy - but she still doesn't have to stop having the beauty treatment

Now she's been warned by consultant plastic surgeon Niall Kirkpatrick on the Channel 5 show that she should quit the habit for the sake of her health, but she said it is hard due to the pressure she's under to look good in the public eye.

'It is addictive you want to get more and more, it is so hard to stop,' she said.

'I live in this social media world where you have got to look amazing, you get more work and you get sponsored if you look amazing, so I feel like I have to look amazing all the time.'

She added: 'There is a massive pressure with fame to look good, you have to look perfect in all the pictures you put up on Instagram and Twitter or you get grief.'

Niall warned Sophie that she was taking a big risk with the injections as the industry is unregulated. 

He said: 'Very few fillers have gone through any clinical trials so those who use them do so with a degree of unknown risk and complications can be severe. 

The 26-year-old has had adverse reactions to filler, pictured, but she said that won't stop her

The 26-year-old has had adverse reactions to filler, pictured, but she said that won't stop her

'Everyone is at risk of reacting to something injected into them so there is no safe filler.'

This is something Sophie has already discovered to her cost.

At the age of 20, before she joined the cast of MTV's Geordie Shore, she had cut-price filler at a friend's house which led to her lip severely swelling.

She admits she was a 'stupid girl' to have had the £50 injections - as she had no idea what what substance was put into her body. 

'I remember leaving that woman's house thinking my lips look great and then realised it wasn't even filler that I was getting in my lips, it was silicone or saline,' she said.

Sophie said she was stupid for having cut-price filler in the past as she had no idea what was injected into her. She has been told, as the industry is unregulated, there is no safe way to do it

Sophie said she was stupid for having cut-price filler in the past as she had no idea what was injected into her. She has been told, as the industry is unregulated, there is no safe way to do it

Plastic surgeon Niall Kirkpatrick has told Sophie she needs to stop having filler as she has 'lost sight' of what is a normal lip size

Plastic surgeon Niall Kirkpatrick has told Sophie she needs to stop having filler as she has 'lost sight' of what is a normal lip size

'At the time I thought I was big and clever and looked amazing but in reality I just looked like the Elephant Man,' she said.

'They were massive it looked like I had a fight with Mike Tyson. My lips were horrendous and lumpy it wasn't even. What an idiot, I didn't know what it was.'

However, the experience didn't put her off and she went on to have more filler after it was offered to her for free by beauty salons once she became famous. 

'When I was offered more for free of course I snapped it up, who wouldn't when it is free?' she said.

Sophie said it would be hard to cut down on filler as she worries about losing work if she doesn't look perfect

Sophie said it would be hard to cut down on filler as she worries about losing work if she doesn't look perfect

But as her lips kept becoming lumpy and sore, she eventually saw a surgeon who injected an antidote to dissolve the filler. 

Since then, she has plumped them up again and admits she still isn't happy with them.

She saw Niall in the hope he could help, but instead he advised her to stop using filler altogether.

You have lost sight of the base line of what is normal,' he told her of her hang-up over the size of her lips.

'I would suggest stop using filler. You don't need them.'

When Sophie said it would be hard to quit - but she would try to reduced the number of times she gets filler a year - he suggested she seek counselling. 

Celebrity Botched Bodies is on Channel 5 Thursdays at 10pm 

 

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