Former Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby, 32, just got real about lip filler in the latest episode of her podcast Always On in which she opens up about why she got her own dissolved last year. Despite numerous headlines that suggest Charlotte reversed the treatment in reaction to online trolls, the television star reveals that the biggest influence over her decision was her daughter.
'I did not get my lips dissolved because of trolls, because quite frankly, I've been trolled for so long about them and I did not care,' she tells her listeners. It was only after watching herself on screen for the Geordie Shore reunion that Charlotte began to consider what her daughter Alba would see when she looked at her mother.
'I looked ridiculous,' Charlotte says, 'and obviously I've had a little girl now, you know what I mean? I thought to myself when I was watching myself on TV, and when I'm up in my little girl's face and I'm doing all these silly noises, can she even see us over them humongous lips? Can she even see who I am as a person?'
Charlotte explains that she has booked in for lip filler once a year for the past eight years. 'It took the arrival of Alba to make her think, "it's all got to go",' she says.
Charlotte explains that during pregnancy her lips swelled and retained a lot of water after she gave birth. 'At the very end they were just too big, far too big, ridiculously big,' she says, 'honestly I looked absolutely pathetic. I must admit and that's a first for me to admit.'
It's not the first time that a filler loyalist has traded in their fuller look. Former Love Islander Faye Winter explained her experience of dissolving filler for the very first time to her fellow islanders on the show in 2021, while the likes of Molly Mae also reversed the treatment after sharing her regrets with followers, 'I made that many mistakes when I was younger I'm still trying to correct them now,' she said in a YouTube video.
The process of dissolving filler involves injecting an enzyme called hyaluronidase or hyalase into the area, which breaks down the cross-linked hyaluronic acid filler and turns it into a liquid, which gets reabsorbed by the body. Any cosmetic treatment like this should always be administered by a doctor or medical professional. If you're considering it yourself, do your due diligence and cross check your practitioner against the list of accredited professionals on the Joint Council for Cosmetic Practitioners website or on the Save Face website.
The rise in people choosing to forgo lip fillers makes us question whether this is the end of the trend for fuller lips as a whole, or the Kylie Jenner Effect, as it was once called.