Socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson has been talking about getting her nose fixed for ages; she was even hoping to get her damaged conk sorted out before the royal wedding in April.
A few months on from then, and six weeks after nasal reconstruction surgery, TP-T is ready to show off her new nose and tell the world that she couldn’t be happier with the results. Speaking to She magazine about her new hooter, the 39-year-old explained that getting her nose fixed has changed her life.
“I can’t tell you how wonderful I feel - like a different person. Before, I didn’t want to go out, I didn’t want to date. And now I want to go out, I want to date again. I feel 10 years younger. I feel really excited. I feel I’m symmetrical again - inside and out.”
The sensitive socialite also admitted that rumours about her misshapen nose being the result of her using drugs again hurt her feelings, as TP-T has now been drug-free for years.
“What hurt most is the people writing about what was actually a disfigurement on my face. It destroyed me. My confidence was wrecked. When I first had my nose rebuilt in 2006, I only had three of the 12 aftercare sessions that I was meant to have. Stupidly, I started to play around with fillers. In the first operation, they used cartilage from the ear to rebuild my nose, which is quite delicate. Since then, I’ve had a series of breakages and fragmentations, and it became misshapen. I was asked to do interviews in the run-up [to the royal wedding], but when I refused they started to focus on my nose. I think people assumed the damage had come from doing more drugs. I was in the darkest place I’ve ever been.