A mum who started getting beauty treatments in her teens is fed up with being an “unrecognisable Barbie doll” – having now spent £120,000 to reverse her surgeries and ditched the Botox and fillers for good.
For years, Tracy Kiss has battled “soul-destroying stares” from women who think she is “after their husbands” because of her “super-sized doughnut breasts”.
The 36-year-old from Buckinghamshire also suffers unwanted comments and looks from strangers both online and offline – which meant going to the beach with her kids or doing the school run was always tough.
Over nearly two decades, Tracy has undergone five boob jobs, a chin liposuction, an upper eyelid lift, a rhinoplasty, a BBL, labiaplasty, teeth straightening and more.
She also got quarterly Botox and facial fillers, plus other beauty treatments like semi permanent make-up top-up or eyelash extensions.
Tired of being scrutinised, Tracy has spent the last year stripping back her appearance.
“People judged me negatively and assumed that I would be self-obsessed and uneducated,” Tracy, who has 1.2m Instagram followers, told Need To Know.
“They believed I was unhappy and hated myself so had to turn to surgery and aesthetics to feel ‘beautiful’ – which wasn’t the case.
“What started off as a very innocent ‘treat’ to have pretty nails and a nice tan for summer in my teens ultimately turned me into an unrecognisable Barbie doll in time.
“But I feel that I had to reach that point of fake-ness in order to bounce back, wake up and return to my natural self.
“I realised my choices over my appearance were only taking me further away from my authenticity and personality, so removing it feels like returning home.
“Now I actually look like my own children and receive so many compliments for looking much younger without makeup and ‘not trying too hard.”
Tracy started in August last year when she got her breast size reduced – paying £4,500 for the operation in Turkey to go from 32H to 32C.
Since then, she’s also had her fillers – which she gets in her chin, jawline, nose and lips – dissolved.
The mum has cancelled her Botox appointments and ditched her hair and nail follow-ups.
Tracy said: “It’s all too easy to spend £60 per week on lashes and nails, which then becomes hundreds per month when you factor in hair appointments, tanning, Botox and fillers top-ups.
“Before you know it, you suddenly have huge thick eyebrows, big lips and a motionless face with the smallest of imperfections becoming blindingly obvious.
“I realised that the woman staring back at me in the mirror isn’t the person that I know myself to be.”
Now, she is more confident in herself – and feels good about being able to go out wit her kids this summer without being stared at.
Tracy, said: “I feel far happier and healthier rolling out of bed and enjoying life without spending hours in the mirror fretting over signs of ageing.
“I live life for myself, as an individual, without the need to impress or compete with anybody because of my appearance.
“I don’t need beauty to feel beautiful, I just have to be myself.”
