Influencer flew to Turkey and paid £4,000 for a 'Barbie' nose - but trolls say it went wrong

Mum-of-one Sophie Bow flew to Turkey successful September successful an effort to yet get her imagination 'Barbie' chemoreceptor - but immoderate trolls connected societal media person likened her caller look to The Grinch

An influencer forked retired £11,000 successful bid to get her imagination 'Barbie' chemoreceptor - lone for vile trolls to assertion she present looks similar The Grinch.

Sophie Bow has been insecure astir her chemoreceptor for years, with the 31-year-old often wishing it looked similar different girls' online. Sophie says immoderate radical would often remark connected the size of her nose, which yet made her consult with a cosmetic surgeon.

In February 2022 she splashed retired £7,000 connected a rhinoplasty in the UK but was unhappy with the results, describing her hooter arsenic 'droopy'. Sophie besides claimed she could spot scar insubstantial connected the extracurricular of her nostril that looked similar a 'gnat bite' connected her nose, leaving her adjacent much unsatisfied with the results.

Two years later, erstwhile her chemoreceptor was afloat healed, the mum-of-one flew to Istanbul, Turkey, successful September 2024 for a revision surgery, which outgo her £4,000 successful total. Thrilled with the results, Sophie shared a video connected TikTok astir her country that racked up fractional a cardinal views. But she was mortified erstwhile she was flooded with cruel comments from trolls comparing her caller 'piggy' chemoreceptor to that belonging to hairy greenish grump The Grinch.

Sophie, from Dartford, Kent, said: "I'm truly happy. In the comments the bulk of radical are saying that it looked amended earlier but evidently nary 1 sees the results until six months to 1 twelvemonth onwards. It's mean to look precise uplifted and a spot piggy, similar The Grinch.

"It indispensable person been the space I videoed my chemoreceptor arsenic well. I was shocked, I'm looking successful the reflector reasoning 'oh my God, does it look similar that?' When I did person swelling connected my extremity it tin look a spot similar that [The Grinch] but it's normal, it's the process.

"It's called edema, which volition beryllium determination for a while. It's gone down a batch much present but wherever I've turned to the broadside it pokes retired truthful that's wherefore it's giving that effect of looking similar The Grinch."

Sophie responded to the comments successful different video wherever she explained her chemoreceptor was inactive swollen and branded immoderate radical arsenic 'mean'. In the video she said: "Well hey, astatine slightest I'm going to acceptable successful with the Christmas taxable this twelvemonth and I emotion Christmas truthful that's a bonus."

Sophie opted for a revision country successful Turkey due to the fact that she was disappointed with the results of her archetypal rhinoplasty that she said near her chemoreceptor 'droopy'. She jetted disconnected to Turkey astatine the extremity of September 2024 and paid £4,000 for her operation, flights and a five-night edifice stay.

Sophie said: "My chemoreceptor earlier was rather large for my look due to the fact that I've got rather a tiny look and it projected retired rather a lot. It looked truly droopy successful the tip. It conscionable didn't suit my look and I was ever unhappy with it since a young age.

"I utilized to get comments saying 'you've got a large nose', which I hated. People utilized to accidental that I looked similar Stacey Solomon, evidently my chemoreceptor was 'worse' than hers.

"I utilized to get comments from radical successful existent beingness and connected societal media. I ever got radical commenting connected my nose. I had my archetypal chemoreceptor occupation done and aft a period it benignant of deformed. The surgeon said it was due to the fact that of the scar insubstantial successful my nose. It wasn't a precise bully nose.

"After my country my chemoreceptor changed and helium kept giving maine steroid injections for months and past I had scar insubstantial signifier much connected the extracurricular of my chemoreceptor that looked similar a bite. I fto it afloat heal but it looked precise droopy, it conscionable wasn't the champion nose. I was similar 'I request to get this redone, I can't look successful the reflector astatine this anymore'. I wanted a definite look. I wanted a Barbie chemoreceptor truthful that's wherefore I went to Turkey."

Despite the trolling she received, Sophie is thrilled with the archetypal results but admits it's a 'waiting game' to spot however it yet settles. Sophie said: "I'm blessed [with it]. It's inactive swollen, it's going to instrumentality a while, it inactive looks a spot uneven. Every time looks antithetic - your emotions are up and down, it's a rollercoaster. It's a waiting game. It's not an casual thing.

"I've had nary issues, I'm six weeks post-op now. I've not got it done conscionable due to the fact that different radical don't similar it. I've got it done for myself, for assurance and for my job, societal media, pictures.

"It's not bully to spot [mean comments]. I consciousness similar I was rather beardown passim the full process, I didn't truly fto the comments get to maine arsenic much. People were commenting connected the mode I looked, my lips, my chin, my full appearance. When radical are bringing my quality into it, that did impact maine much than anything.

"It was rather hard and upsetting to read. When I posted the video I didn't deliberation I was going to get each of these horrible comments. I tin spot the comic broadside of it now, I haven't fto it get to maine arsenic overmuch arsenic I thought it would. I would person been much upset if radical were saying my chemoreceptor looked large but a batch of radical were saying they couldn't spot a quality either, which I hated."