I’ve spent £50K on surgery but my botched ‘fox eye’ lift has ruined my life – I’m permanently scarred, says Chloe Ferry
SHE has spent £50,000 on surgery since finding fame but now Chloe Ferry has finally admitted she has gone too far.
Earlier this year, the Geordie Shore star had to go to hospital after suffering a botched “fox” eye lift and now she says she needs a skin graft to fix the dent in her face.
The ordeal has also left her relationship — and mental health — in tatters.
The popular treatment, which costs around £800, involves lifting the edges of the brows using soft PDO (polydioxanone) threads in the face. The outer corners of the eyes are also lifted, creating an almond shape which is permanent.
The trend has been inspired by models such as Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner — and while they have never gone on record to say if they have had surgery, women in the UK are checking into clinics to recreate the look.
But Chloe, 27, has a stark warning. She says: “It’s probably one of the biggest mistakes I’ve ever made. I really regret it. I’ve had a traumatic seven months and it could’ve been avoided.
READ MORE FABULOUS
“I’ve been going through hell since I had it done.
“I’ve always had really good skin, I never get spots and now I have this dent on my face. It’s permanent.
BRAZILIAN BUTT LIFT
“It has actually ruined my life and made me so insecure. I can’t leave the house without make-up.”
Chloe had the two-hour procedure in January.
She says of the eye lift: “I don’t know why I got it done in the first place, because people kept telling me I didn’t need it — it just made me want to get it done more.
“Now I keep thinking, ‘Why have I done this to myself?’ It’s made me so self-conscious, and really affected me mentally. I’ve been botched.”
Most read in The Sun
Chloe is no stranger to going under the knife, having spent an estimated £50,000 on three nose jobs, lip, cheek and chin filler, Botox, veneers and two boob jobs over five years.
She has also had a Brazilian butt lift — widely considered the most dangerous cosmetic procedure after a number of deaths worldwide — and liposuction.
She says: “From past treatments I know what kind of pain to expect but with this I knew something wasn’t right straight away.
“On that same day it started pussing, I couldn’t quite work out what was going on but I just carried on with it. Then my skin started to ripple.”
Chloe began feeling really poorly five days after the treatment, and around two weeks later her mum Liz, 59, took her to hospital.
Chloe says: “Because I have a proper phobia of going to the doctor’s, I kept holding off going.
“But my migraine became unbearable even with really strong painkillers. I was getting really hot and cold, and I had a temperature.
“My mum took me to hospital and they said it was an infection and gave me antibiotics for it.
“No one knows why it went wrong but the doctors said it could’ve gone in my eye, which would be so much worse.
“Experts have said to try microneedling, and I might have to get a skin graft as well. I seriously regret it. It could all have been avoided.
“It’s not cheap as well, it’s about £800 — all for me to be botched.”
Warning her fans about her experience, Chloe posted close-up snaps of her face on Instagram and was shocked by the response.
She says: “When I come out about it in my Instagram Stories, I just wanted to make people aware. I had a flood of messages saying the same had happened to them, and some worse off than me. Someone I spoke to nearly got sepsis. It is actually so dangerous.”
According to aestheticians, the number of thread lift procedures being performed are at an all-time high. Data from clinics such as Essex’s Vie Aesthetics have seen the number of fox eye lifts more than triple since 2019.
Save Face, which runs a register of non-surgical practitioners, has received hundreds of complaints about problems from this type of procedure in the past two years.
Dr Omar Tillo, a plastic surgeon and founder of says: “Major complications include bleeding, double vision, inability to close the eye, severe infections and blindness. Minor complications include asymmetry, which is very common.
‘I’M IN A BAD PLACE’
“To avoid such complications, check that they (your practitioner) are board-certified and registered plastic surgeons and that they have good experience doing this surgery on a regular basis.”
Chloe’s mental health has been badly affected too, and it has even caused her to take a break from her relationship with boyfriend Johnny Wilbo, 24, an MMA fighter, who she began dating last year.
The owner of her own make-up range, Chloe Ferry Cosmetics, she adds: “I often film myself without make-up for tutorials and now I feel I can’t do that. It’s just so frustrating. It has affected my life and even my relationship.
“Me and Johnny went through a bad time because of what happened to my face. I was pushing him away.
“Everyone is asking if I am single, and I’m not — we have gone on a break. I’m in a bad place and I’ve taken it out on him. When I’m getting photos taken, he might point out the scar and it makes me stressed. I need to take photos. My looks are how I make my money.”
Chloe’s infatuation with cosmetic surgery began after she joined MTV’s Geordie Shore in 2015 when she was just 19.
She says: “People would pick out my faults. People would say I had saggy boobs, even small boobs and small lips. When you are that young, you haven’t even grown up and you start to believe it.
“I never even wanted to get my boobs done until people kept making comments. I thought I had amazing boobs. The comments just stuck in my head.
“Before Geordie Shore I couldn’t even afford bread but with my first pay cheque, before anything else, I got my lips done — it’s all I cared about because they were so small.
“But I realise now that trolls will comment on your looks regardless, if you have had work done or not. In the past I have definitely been driven to the brink with these negative comments.”
Despite previously vowing to give up on surgery, Chloe reckons she has been left with no choice but to have a skin graft to fix her face.
She says: “I just hope to God that the scar is going to come off my face. I should’ve done more research and maybe realised I didn’t need to have it done.
“I’ve learned that if you are going to try to change yourself based on something someone else says, it will never make you happy.
READ MORE SUN STORIES
Read More on The Sun
“I would pay to turn back time. But I can’t live in regret, I have to move on from it and learn.
“I want other people to learn from my mistake.”
CHOOSE THREADING EXPERT
DIRECTOR at Save Face, Ashton Collins, says: “Anyone considering a thread lift should only seek out an appropriately trained and insured healthcare professional.
“Although it is non-surgical, because of the invasiveness, thread lifts are a Care Quality Commission (CQC) registrable treatment, however, the regulation only extends to a limited group of healthcare professionals, it doesn’t prevent the untrained and uninsured from setting up as providers.
“More than 80 per cent of the complaints we receive are over treatments carried out by non-medics and because they are unaccountable, redress is very unlikely.”
Visit to find a fully qualified medical professional you can trust.
