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Privacy NoticeActress Danniella Westbrook is preparing to undergo a major makeover as she sets her sights on a big career comeback eight years after leaving EastEnders. In these exclusive photos, the former soap star can be seen with a large bandage covering her nose following what we’re told was exploratory check-up before a string of planned cosmetic surgeries. The former reality star and actress, who’s turning 51 in November, is no stranger to the surgeon’s table and has had a number of operations in the past – including a surgical thread lift in Turkey last year that she said left her with a gaping wound in the side of her head. But after years of difficult and painful surgeries, as well as her well-publicised battles with addiction, sources tell us the London-born mum is more confident than ever and is determined to do what it takes to get the results she wants.
We’re told she had a check-up on her nose recently
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“Danniella underwent an exploratory procedure last week and she’s scheduled for surgery on her neck and face in the next few weeks,” our source told us. They also said that Danniella, who first had issues with her nose back in the late nineties because of her excessive drug use, was feeling “enthusiastic” about having another “minor aesthetic enhancement and breast augmentation” as she looks to revive her career on the stage and screen. “Having experienced a lack of confidence with her facial appearance over the past few years, she wants a change to restore her self-assurance,” they claimed. “She plans to return to work once she feels confident in her appearance again.”
A source said she’s planning to go under the knife again
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Danniella, who played Sam Mitchell alongside Walford legends Steve McFadden and Grant Mitchell as big brothers Phil and Grant, has battled addiction for much of her adult life, but had a 14-year stretch of sobriety before relapsing during a difficult time. After going to rehab in 2019 and staying clean and sober, our source says the former Celebrity Big Brother contestant is in the best place she’s been and is determined to look and feel her best. “She just wants to look the best she has done in years before returning to TV and Theatre,” they claimed. “She’s doing it for work and to feel good in herself again. “Her confidence is rebuilding, and she’s already been through worse pain with surgeries but after these procedures she’llll be feeling 100% confident again and back to herself, and ready for work again and do what she’s best at.” This latest planned round of surgeries follows a traumatic facial reconstruction surgery in Turkey last year, which Danniella described afterwards as a “living nightmare.”
She’s determined to look her best for her big acting comeback
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She travelled out to the plastic surgery hotspot in early 2023 to have a surgical thread lift, where temporary stitches are used to essentially lift the skin, and a fat transfer to fix a past botched surgery on her face. At the time, she said the aim was to remove fat from her back, stomach and sides, and use this to make her face “more symmetrical”, but she said it “ruined my body” and was going to take “a lot of work to get it back to how I was”. After waking up in “unreal pain”, she later flew to Portugal to relax but the nightmare didn’t end there as two days later she says she discovered some of her 200 stitches had come undone and she needed urgent medical treatment. According to another source, Danniella was left “traumatised” by the experience but won’t let it stop her achieving the results she wants. “She’s had work done on her face ever since her nose collapsed back in 2000,” they claimed. “And last year she had her face surgery that went wrong so she is planning another surgery to fix that nightmare in Turkey. “Obviously she was traumatised by that and is terrified of things going wrong again, but she knows she has to get everything fixed.”
The actress has already been through a lot when it comes to surgery
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Earlier this summer Danniella sparked concern with her fans after speaking openly about her ongoing battle with depression, revealing she’d been unable to leave the house. She first talked about her experiences during the Covid pandemic in a bid to help reduce the stigma surrounding mental health, saying: “Depression is in all of us and none of us can escape it. It’s just how it manifests sometimes.” But in one of her most recent television interviews ahead of her 50th birthday, Danniella looked and sounded almost unrecognisable to the person she was in some of her lowest moments. Speaking to Allison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary on This Morning, she said: “I’m happy to be alive, after everything I’ve put myself through, I’m just excited to hit 50.” She also revealed plans to release a third autobiography, following on from her 2006 and 2013 publications. “I’m just so happy with this chapter that I’m in and I think I just needed to get there myself,” she said. “All the recovery stuff is great, but it’s just about learning how to like me a little bit.”Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnBig BrotherEastEndersThis MorningDanniella Westbrook
