Molly-Mae Hague candidly reflected on her “filler scandal” on Saturday as she celebrated being “injection-free” for almost five years.
The former Love Island contestant, 25, has been documenting having her fillers removed since 2020 and has spoken about how “blessed” she feels to be able to “fix” the excessive amount of filler she put in her face.
Molly-Mae previously admitted she didn’t recognize herself when she turned 21, having undergone a variety of cosmetic procedures.
Now her lip and jaw fillers have been dissolved and her composite veneers removed, and she said she was “terrified of herself” when looking at past photos.
Speaking on her Instagram Story, the TV personality gushed that she has “come a long way” on her “filling journey.”
Molly-Mae Hague candidly reflected on her “filler scandal” on Saturday as she celebrated being “injection-free” for almost five years.
The former Love Island contestant, 25, has been documenting having her fillers removed since 2020. Pictured in 2019 (left) and in the post where the fillers were dissolved (right) in May 2022.
Molly-Mae explained: “The other day I was having a moment of reflection about my filler journey and I realized that I haven’t had filler in the last five years, over four years.
“I haven’t had any filler put in my face, which, if you think back to my filler debacle, my filler scandal, is not a huge accomplishment, but it’s quite a journey to reflect on.” It’s been so long.’
Promoting a new L’oreal product, she added: “I recently fell in love with a new skincare product and I really feel like it’s products like these that have helped me on this journey and steered me away from injectables.” . ‘
Molly-Mae first had her lips injected when she was just 18 and said this caused a “vicious cycle” of supplementing treatment.
In May last year, she said she looked five years younger after having lip and jaw fillers dissolved.
she said in The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett’s podcast: ‘I wouldn’t say I became addicted, but at 21 I didn’t seem like the same person.
“He literally seemed like a different person. Now when I look at the photographs, I am afraid of myself. I was like, “Who was that girl?” I do not know what happened.
“But there was a crucial moment where I went and got a bunch of filler and I posted a video on YouTube and I hadn’t let the filler set and it was very swollen and a screenshot of that video, it was trending on Twitter for weeks .’
Speaking on her Instagram Story, the TV personality gushed that she has “come a long way” on her “filling journey.”
Posting a video to her YouTube channel in October 2020 documenting her journey, Molly-Mae explained that she had been getting filler since she was 18 (left in 2019, right in 2021).
The influencer continued: ‘It was horrible. It was absolutely horrendous. My face was literally horrible. That was the moment for me too when I thought: I think things need to change.
‘I thought: one day my lips will dissolve. It was a process. I went and had my lips dissolved and posted it on YouTube and wasn’t expecting the response I got. It was huge.’
She explained: ‘At the time I started reversing my image and dissolving the filling and dissolving my lips, I actually had a full set of composite on my teeth, they took them off too.
“I literally took it to the extreme and just stripped naked and strangely felt prettier than ever once it was all gone.
“I feel like I was about five years off my age and it was like it was a really significant moment for me.
‘I didn’t realize how much respect that would give me. I didn’t do it out of respect, I did it for myself. I didn’t do it for anyone else, I did it because I knew I needed it.’
Molly-Mae recently took to her Instagram Stories to show off her transformation as she shared a photo of herself taken at London’s Winter Wonderland in 2019.
She followed up with a photo taken at this year’s holiday event after having her fillers dissolved.
‘It’s time for me to age two years…’, she wrote next to the first photo where she appears wrapped in a brown wool jacket while enjoying a box of Churros.
In the second snap, Molly-Mae had her eyebrows raised more dramatically as she wore the same jacket along with a white turtleneck top and dark gray jeans.
The influencer has documented her decision to adopt a more natural look, sharing videos explaining the move.
She said: “I feel like I’m definitely still going through the process of trying to make everything as natural as possible.”
“I made so many mistakes when I was younger that I’m actually still trying to correct them now.
“That’s as far as I got a few years ago: it’s not just a few appointments to correct that level of mistakes I made.”
The social media star also revealed that she only “randomly” dissolved her fillers, because she had originally only planned to undergo laser hair removal.
She said that in addition to the hair removal procedure, I had also booked a consultation to talk about how to dissolve the rest of the filler that I feel is still in my face, and then I decided to go ahead and have it done. today’.
Molly-Mae revealed the results of another filler dissolution procedure in October 2020 in a YouTube video.
In May last year, she said she looked five years younger after having lip and jaw fillers dissolved.
Molly-Mae previously admitted she regrets getting filler at the tender age of 18, joking that it left her looking like she had a ‘double chin’.
At the start of the video, the reality star showed fans what her lips looked like before dissolving and admitted she was “really nervous” about going to Leeds for the procedure.
Molly-Mae said: ‘I remember my lips before the filler, there was nothing there. I literally had no lips!
‘Do you realize how unnatural they are, look at how much padding, they feel very hard? It was time for them to go!
Molly-Mae revealed that she had around a total of 5ml of filler in her lips and was last refilled in 2019.
Showing the dissolving process being carried out, the reality star admitted the surgeon had to use a “record amount” of solvent.
Before and after: Molly-Mae looked fresh and natural (pictured on the left in October 2017 and on the right in March 2019)
Last year, Molly-Mae admitted she regrets getting filler at the tender age of 18, joking that it left her looking like she had a “double chin”.
In another YouTube video, Molly-Mae said: “I’m really scared for the kids growing up now.” At 18 I felt like I needed to do that. “Kids growing up now will think it’s the norm.”
Molly-Mae revealed online trolls cruelly mocked her for the shape of her jaw, joking that it looks like she had a “double chin” when she now looks at old photos of herself.
It makes you look worse in the long run. What she did was make him look bigger. It looked like she had a double chin. He had a ‘square head’, ‘dumb’.
‘People called me Quagmire from (Family Guy). The worst thing is that I look like an X-Box controller!’