LINDA NOLAN ON HER INCREDIBLE
SUNDAY MIRROR
JUST one look in the mirror every morning tells Linda Nolan she did the right thing.
Gone are the lines of sadness and grief that 10 years of mourning her lost husband added to her face.
Gone is the weary and haunted look of a woman who fought and beat breast cancer only to see her sister taken by it.
Linda’s decision to have a £ 6,000 facelift has changed her life at 57.
And today, facing the world with her new look for the first time, she admits she feels like a new woman – and one finally ready to find love again.
She’s even laughs that she now looks younger than her Celebrity Big Brotherwinning sister Coleen, 51.
“I’m really happy with the results. It’s exactly what I wanted,” smiles Linda, who chose a lower facelift and extreme skin peel on the advice of her surgeon.
“It’s amazing to wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and feel better about yourself. And when I meet people I haven’t seen for a while, they’re amazed. In fact their reaction has been the best thing about this.
“I looked so tired before. I would look in the mirror and see everything I’d gone through in the past 10 years on my face. The facelift has enhanced my life. The sadness has gone.”
Linda has suffered enough tragedy. She lost husband Brian at 60 to skin cancer in 2007 and 52-year-old Bernie to breast cancer in 2013, having battled it herself in 2006.
SHINING
At her lowest, she contemplated suicide. And her sadness only deepened every time it was reflected in the mirror.
But now, four weeks after surgery at London’s Harley Street Skin Clinic, all she can see is positivity shining back. Linda was awake through her op, having a local rather than general anaesthetic for the lower facelift.
“I was given a relaxant that made me feel great. I recall the surgeon saying, ‘she says her nose is itchy, can someone scratch it?’ But I don’t remember much at all. I felt no pain.”
She jokes that the facelift and chemical skin peel left her looking like an “orange Malteser” at first.
“But in a few days the swelling had gone. I noticed the changes in my top lip – I no longer had very deep lines from smoking – and my jawline, because my jowls had gone,” she says.
“Day by day my skin felt better. And, the sadness in my face had gone.” The star has spent two weeks recuperating at sister Denise’s home in Blackpool. She wore support bandages around her face the first five days. “It was like wearing a balaclava,” she jokes. “But I was so pampered. Denise cooked for me and people popped in. It didn’t take long for