Tulisa's agonising health battle that transformed her appearance before lip filler and face tattoos

As Tulisa Contostavlos makes her eagerly-awaited TV instrumentality connected I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, the Mirror takes a look astatine the achy wellness ordeal she's had to contend with, which has resulted successful changes to her carnal appearance

Shortly earlier arriving Down Under for her stint successful I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! Tulisa Contostavlos opened up astir an agonising wellness conflict that wholly transformed her appearance.

The N-Dubz rapper was erstwhile 1 of the astir celebrated faces connected British television, sitting down the judges' array connected The X Factor during the 2011 and 2012 seasons. She past launched her awesome solo career, with her debut single, Young, soaring to the precise apical of the UK charts.

Although Tulisa has continued to bask occurrence successful the tract of music, with N-Dubz releasing their 4th workplace album, Timeless, successful the summertime of 2023, she has kept a comparatively debased illustration successful caller years. Now she's backmost connected our screens with a bang, wielding her signature Female Boss limb motion arsenic she prepares for the, nary uncertainty grisly, trials ahead.

Fans were delighted erstwhile she joined this year's star-studded I'm A Celeb lineup, wherever she'll beryllium sharing campy supplies with the likes of Coleen Rooney, GK Barry, Jane Moore and McFly vocalist Danny Jones, but sadly determination has already been immoderate unpleasantness online.

Although galore person been cheering the 36-year-old connected arsenic she keeps her eyes fixed connected that jungle crown, determination person been those who've taken purpose astatine her appearance, noting that she looks antithetic than she did arsenic a prima connected the emergence successful her twenties.

Hitting backmost astatine the trolls, TV presenter Rylan Clark, who is pals with Tulisa, tweeted: "Also, earlier radical commencement going for appearance, Tulisa has been done a batch health-wise the past fewer years, truthful let’s not marque s*** jokes astir her connected Twitter, yea x."

Shortly earlier her jungle escapade began, Tulisa sat down with Olivia Attwood for an occurrence of her So Wrong It’s Right podcast, wherever she spoke openly astir her struggles with Bell's Palsy, a information that near her with swelling, and difficulties moving her face.

Camden-born Tulisa told Olivia: “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."

Gesturing to her face, Tulisa explained, “As I was coming to the extremity of the 7 months, my look was inactive not right… I would spell and get fillers to effort and equilibrium retired the symmetry. So I’d beryllium similar right, if you enactment immoderate successful that feature to lucifer the swelling connected that feature and past if you enactment immoderate present to assistance this up truthful my articulator isn’t down there. You tin ideate the vicious cycle."

To her large relief, Tulisa past went a afloat 2 years without a Bell's Palsy attack, and she began to announcement 'low-level swelling' successful the aforesaid cheek, comparing the frightening sensation to 'ants crawling' successful her face. She recalled: “'I would person similar tingling sensations similar small ants crawling successful my face. I started seeing doctors each astir the UK – 'Something's incorrect with me, what's incorrect with my face' – it was truthful scary. This went each the mode up until this twelvemonth it was horrific.

"I perpetually felt similar my feature was connected fire. I'd person bully days and atrocious days and connected immoderate days, I'd instrumentality steroids, which would bring it down. When I was doing that N-Dubz tally it was astatine its worst, truthful you mightiness spot an interview, I look normal. And past you spot different interview, it's like, what the hellhole is going connected with my face?"

Tulisa continued: “It was scary, and past what happened was due to the fact that I had this low-level swelling. I past dissolved each the filler, and I would lucifer the inflammation by putting filler successful the different side. So you person this broadside swollen, and this broadside is filler to lucifer the swelling."

According to the NHS, Bell's palsy is simply a information which results successful a diligent experiencing impermanent weakness oregon deficiency of question that tends to impact conscionable 1 broadside of the face. Steroid attraction tin help, and astir radical get amended wrong six months.

Tulisa has since had the filler removed, and present claims to conscionable person filler successful her lips. Ahead of her I'm A Celeb appearance, she's besides reportedly had her lips tattooed. A root told The Sun: 'Tulisa was determined to look and consciousness her champion earlier going into the jungle. She's been doing Tibetan Rites astatine location and besides sessions with a idiosyncratic trainer successful the gym including boxing. Tulisa has besides had her articulator liner tattooed connected arsenic she knows she volition beryllium going makeup-free for a bully fewer weeks."

In a connection made earlier heading to Australia, Tulisa told followers: "If maine being my authentic aforesaid connects with radical successful a wide way, past it indispensable mean I'm doing thing close successful life. But I americium not going to spell looking for it. This isn't a vocation determination for maine either. I volition ever spell backmost to N-Dubz, and this is simply a one-off experience."

The 2024 bid of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! continues this evening (Tuesday, November 19) connected ITV astatine 9pm.

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