Makeover shows are popular all over the world, and many envy their participants because of their work with professionals and a complete change in style and appearance. Some change only their style and hairstyle, others participate in shows with plastic surgery and a more radical transformation of their appearance. But not everyone is happy with the changes, and some even admit that participation in the show ruined their lives.
Laurie Erias was a member of the popular American show The Swan, where participants are transformed not only new image with clothes, hairstyle and makeup, but they also do plastic surgery with a complete transformation appearance. In Russia, there was a similar program "10 years younger", which is also a domestic adaptation of the Western format.
Excess weight and permanent stress
Laurie has a difficult fate with a difficult childhood, in which there were many humiliations and constant stress and worries. She suffered from excess weight for a long time, from which she then managed to get rid of with great difficulty, applying incredible willpower.
Once she lost more than 60 kg, but this did not solve the problem of self-esteem, but only added worries. The woman admitted that she suffers from very low self-esteem due to the fact that after a strong losing weight, her whole skin sagged, tissues have lost elasticity, which makes her face and body look extremely and unaesthetic.
She cried and did not know what to do, because she believed that it was simply unfair: she worked so hard on herself, and as a result she got even more problems! And in 2002 her husband died, and Lori finally broke down. She wanted to start a new life, but it was impossible to do it in that body. Her story attracted the interest of the producers of The Swan, and she was invited to become a member. She was in seventh heaven!
A find for a show of transformations
The specialists perfectly conjured over Lori, who set a kind of record on the show. She has experienced the largest number of plastic surgeries in the entire history of the project! There seems to be no part of the body that would have remained the same. Lori did not just tighten the skin on her face and body, removing imperfections - she had a completely new figure and face!
When she saw herself in the mirror on the show, the reaction was the same as everyone else's. She seemed very happy, seeing herself, at last, beautiful - with different facial features, with a taut oval and a completely different figure without excess skin and new shapes.
But that was just a reaction for the public and the cameras... Behind the scenes of the show, Laurie wasn't just not happy - she was terrified! She screamed and cried, repeating:
“Get my face back! I want my face back! "
Alien face (and body)
According to plastic surgeons, this first reaction is common for many women who have experienced a transformation of this magnitude. With time and gradual habituation, self-awareness levels out, and a person grows together with a new appearance.
A few years later, in an interview, Laurie admitted that the transformation really greatly added to her self-confidence, which she lacked so much. But at the same time, the new life was not what she expected. First, relatives and friends who knew her before began to envy and shun her. Moreover, Laurie's sons said:
"She doesn't look like our mom anymore."
And secondly, Laurie was never able to relate to her appearance... On the one hand, she enjoyed life in a new body and gladly accepted compliments from others, remembering her old self, first with excess weight, and then with saggy skin. On the other hand, all this was not hers - someone else's face, someone else's body...
The new appearance, which she so dreamed of, played a cruel joke with the heroine and in the most negative way affected her self-awareness and appearance. Because very soon she began to gain weight again.
Vicious circle
Her mood was constantly jumping from plus to minus, Laurie fell into a real depression. She stuck to stress out of an old habit, and the result was not long in coming. She gained weight, which she lost with such difficulty before the transformation, having gained more than 40 kg! In an interview a few years after the show, the heroine admitted that she feels the same nightmare and again thinks about losing weight and plastic.
More than one year has passed since then. Laurie no longer posts any fresh photos, and on her social networks there are photos of the time when she was already transformed, but did not gain so much weight.
