Tulisa left 'tearing into her face and created gaping weeping holes' over health battle

N-Dubz vocalist and erstwhile X Factor justice Tulisa Contostavlos antecedently opened up connected her wellness conflict that near her picking astatine her look each time for years

Tulisa Contostavlos revealed her concealed 12-year wellness conflict earlier I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.

The N-Dubz vocalist is competing successful this year's bid of the ITV amusement successful the Australian jungle. Viewers person shared their excitement of her being backmost connected screens erstwhile again aft taking a hiatus pursuing her relation arsenic a X Factor judge. She sparked a immense absorption with her caller look arsenic she got her lips and eyebrows tattooed earlier the show.

Tulisa besides topped up her articulator filler and eyelash extensions. Her pal Rylan fired backmost astatine those leaving antagonistic comments on her quality arsenic helium said: "Also earlier radical commencement going for appearance, Tulisa has been done a batch wellness omniscient the past fewer years truthful let’s not marque s**t jokes astir her connected twitter yea x."

The vocalist was diagnosed with Bell's palsy successful 2020, which is simply a neurological upset that causes paralysis oregon weakness connected 1 broadside of the look erstwhile the facial nervus is damaged oregon stops moving properly. She had her archetypal onslaught erstwhile she was 24 and had besides been diagnosed with dermatillomania years before.

Writing successful her publication Honest: My Story So Far successful 2012, Tulisa described however she would self-harm by "tearing into her face" with nail clippers. Dermatillomania, besides known arsenic tegument picking disorder, is wherever you cannot halt picking astatine your skin, according to the NHS. The information tin beryllium triggered by accent oregon anxiety.

Tulisa antecedently said she had anxiousness that was caused by her mother's schizoaffective upset - a premix of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. "My vexation and slump astatine that constituent successful my beingness led to the enactment of immoderate unusual and damaging habits that stretched close into my big life," she wrote.

The singer's tegument picking worsened implicit clip and continued into her clip with N-Dubz. It flared up whenever she felt pressured oregon anxious, oregon went to enactment with her parent again. Tulisa shared: "Picking astatine my look was my mode of zoning out, I guess, and sometimes I would spell into the bath and conscionable prime astatine my tegument for hours, not realising that I'd developed an anxiousness upset of my own: dermatillomania.

"As acold arsenic I was concerned, it was conscionable thing I did to get distant from my mum, but it got truthful atrocious that yet I was tearing into my look with nail clippers and tweezers, conscionable to get astatine immoderate infinitesimal blemish oregon invisible small bump nether my skin." She confessed to picking her tegument astir each time for years.

Before her jungle debut past week, Tulisa besides spoke astir having Bell's Palsy portion appearing connected Olivia Attwood's So Wrong It’s Right podcast. She revealed: "When I was astir 24, I had my archetypal Bell's Palsy attack. So I sat astatine home, and I had a monolithic burst of inflammation, and it went down, but my full look dropped – eye, everything. I couldn't determination it; my look remained similar that for 7 months; I didn't spell out; I conscionable hid successful the house."

Bell's Palsy occurs erstwhile determination is simply a impermanent weakness oregon deficiency of question affecting 1 broadside of the face. Symptoms tin include, weakness connected 1 broadside of the face, a drooping eyelid oregon drooping successful country of the mouth.

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