Zara McDermott revealed she has had her jaw filler dissolved as she opened up about her past insecurities in an update on Friday.
Admitting that it made her ‘sad’ when she ‘looks back at herself,’ the TV personality, 29, urged others to ‘find ways to love yourself naturally.’
Speaking in her latest YouTube vlog, Zara discussed her journey with tweakments and feeling like she ‘didn’t quite fit in’ with beauty standards.
She began: ‘I’ve really wanted to get some of my jaw filler dissolved. For context, I started getting a little bit of jaw filler when I was 20 and I didn’t know a lot about it.
‘When you’re younger, you can have these insecurities. And I went to an injector when I was 20 or 21.
‘She basically talked to me about like doing a bit of profile balancing and I got into all of that when I was in my early twenties.’
Zara McDermott revealed she has had her jaw filler dissolved as she opened up about her past insecurities in an update on Friday
Admitting that it made her ‘sad’ when she ‘looks back at herself,’ the TV personality, 29, urged others to ‘find ways to love yourself naturally’ (before, pictured left in 2018)
Zara continued: ‘I did that for a few years and the problem with that is the filler doesn’t actually dissolve internally from your face as quickly as you think it does.
‘I was like, “Well, I need a top up after a year when I need to top up after a year.” Anyway, I feel like I ended up with a lot of filler in my face and a lot of volume.
‘I’m jaw filler-less now. I forgot what this part of my body felt like naturally. And I wish I didn’t insist on getting all these top ups.
‘My face has like literally completely changed since I was in my early twenties. As I’ve got older it just hasn’t definitely just did not age well with me.
‘That’s one thing I will say about any kind of cosmetic treatments is that first of all it is so important to love yourself before you start finding ways to love yourself artificially.
‘So, I think that I look back at myself wanting to have any kind of surgery or wanting to change my face because I didn’t feel like I quite fit in with the other beauty standards. And I feel sad about that.
‘I feel really sad that that’s that was a feeling that I had and I feel sad that I was trying to change and adapt myself to be somebody else.
‘Don’t undergo cosmetic tweakments and treatments when your face isn’t fully mature yet. Just wait and think about it and really take your time.’
She explained: ‘When you’re younger, you can have these insecurities. And I went to an injector when I was 20 or 21’
Zara added: ‘I feel really sad that that’s that was a feeling that I had and I feel sad that I was trying to change and adapt myself to be somebody else’ (pictured on Love Island in 2018)
‘I did not remember what I looked like without it, which was a scary concept. So, I would say to anyone this is a big lesson that and I the reason why I’m sharing this,’ she concluded
Zara added: ‘I would say I was still very much a teenager in my mindset when I was a a in my early 20s. I was impulsive and just didn’t think things through properly in my early twenties for sure.
‘Now I’m now nearly 10 years older. I’m a lot more measured. I am a lot more thoughtful. I’m a lot more empathetic towards myself and a lot more understanding. I know myself better.
‘So, I would say I think that the most important thing is that you take your time with these things because it can become a bit of a snowball effect and it can become a bit of a lifeline for people and people think that in order to love yourself and accept yourself, you need to change yourself physically.
‘Realistically, what I’ve learned is the fact that you can change this all you want, but if you don’t feel worthy and you don’t feel like you have that unconditional love for yourself and self-acceptance, then none of this makes a difference when you look in the mirror.
‘Unfortunately with that negative mindset about yourself, you’re always going to continually want to change something and and it will never be enough.
‘I’m not against anyone doing whatever they want with their bodies, with their faces. I’m very, you know, liberal like that. I don’t judge anyone.
‘I did not remember what I looked like without it, which was a scary concept. So, I would say to anyone this is a big lesson that and I the reason why I’m sharing this is because I really hope that I could help someone maybe reconsider going down that route if they’re not doing it for the right reasons.’
Zara recently took her fans for a trip down memory lane as she shared a series of throwback snaps from a decade ago
Zara recently took her fans for a trip down memory lane as she shared a series of throwback snaps from a decade ago.
The former Love Island star took part in the new ‘2026 is the new 2016’ viral trend currently sweeping social media.
TikTok and Instagram users have been sharing snaps of themselves from 10 years ago which is seen as a more innocent time for the internet with viral dances and quirky memes dominating people’s feeds.
In one snap, Zara looked nearly unrecognisable as she posed in a white lace top and black denim short shorts along with a matching choker.
Alongside the photo, she wrote: ‘The chokers were a VIBE’.
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