Chloe: “I can’t sit down yet – but my new bum is worth it”
Former X Factor star Chloe Khan talks about her recent five-hour butt lift – and controversially reveals she did it because her body shape was ‘not in fashion any more’
She’s transformed herself S from an X Factor wannabe to making a multimillionpound fortune – and along the way, Chloe Khan has drastically altered her looks.
Since her appearance on the talent show in 2010 – when she was known as Chloe Mafia – she’s had two boob jobs, two nose jobs, veneers and countless lip fillers. Just recently, she ticked off a Brazilian butt lift on her extreme nip/tuck wish list.
“I’ve always been top-heavy and I liked my out-of-proportion look, but it’s not really in fashion any more,” Chloe, 25, explains. “I love Kim Kardashian’s bum but I wouldn’t want mine to be that big, although I do idolise her body shape. For me, having a butt lift was also about contouring my body and making my waist look smaller.”
paying the price
Chloe went under a general anaesthetic for the five-and-a-half hour operation, costing £5k, which began with fat being sucked out of her stomach, upper arms, back and sides and then injected back into her bum through small incisions.
“My bum used to look really flat,” she says. “It wasn’t that I wanted to have a bigger butt – I just look so much better in jeans now. I’m happy to look like a Barbie doll and I enjoy it. I just feel that to get the perfect look, it takes more than simply going to the gym.”
But a bigger bum comes with a price. Chloe can’t sit down for six weeks after the operation, but surprisingly she reckons the discomfort will be worth it.
“Because it’s a fat graft, the cells have to take, so I can’t sit on it or I’ll ruin the results. It means I can’t dine out and can only stand at a bar. I also can’t drive and I have to lie face down to sleep, which is uncomfortable – but I’m used to it. The surgery wasn’t that painful – compared to my nose jobs, this was a walk in the park.”
her ‘perfect’ daughter
While Chloe is thrilled with the results, surgery isn’t a path she ever wants her daughter Destiny, eight – whose dad is Chloe’s ex-boyfriend Ian Hough – to go down.
“No. Absolutely not,” she insists. “People are like, ‘How can you say that and
‘I’m happy to look like a Barbie doll’
have surgery yourself?’ but she’s perfect already. I don’t think she notices when I have anything done because I don’t speak about it and she doesn’t bat an eyelid over my changing appearance.”
Despite the post-op inconvenience, Chloe – who made her fortune from setting up a webcam business and working as a model – says she plans to have a butt lift top-up next year as she says between 20 to 30 per cent of the implanted fat will not take to the graft.
She reveals: “I understand surgery’s not for everyone, but I look a million times better after this procedure. I really don’t care what people think.”
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