Married at First Sight Australia 2024‘s Eden Harper has opened up about a former injury that caused her “giant upper lip” after fans trolled her looks.
During the 11th season of the marriage experiment, photos of a young Eden resurfaced, revealing the Queenslander with dramatically thinner lips than today.
Viewers flooded the comment sections on social media, expressing that she looked “much better before the lip fillers”.
However, Eden has since revealed that her enlarged lips are the result of a drastic injury in her early twenties rather than a cosmetic procedure.
“My lips are definitely my biggest insecurity, and the thing that gets me down the most when I look in the mirror is the scar above my mouth and the lack of movement in my mouth,” she told Daily Mail Australia.
“I fainted when I was, I think, 21 or 22. And I landed on glass, and it split my whole face open, and that’s where the scar on my face is from.”
Married at First Sight‘s Eden Harper reveals injury has ‘frozen all movement’ in the lower half of her face
Eden said that while she had “a few gashes” from the injury, “the most notable was probably the size of a stretched out 20 cent coin from above my nose past the end of [her] mouth”.
“In order to stitch up the hole, the surgery lifted my whole mouth upwards, and it’s given me that giant upper lip look that I have,” she recalled.
The 28-year-old added that the surgery has since had lasting impacts on her face.
“It essentially killed the muscle in my mouth and has frozen all movement in the lower half of my face, which is quite unfortunate,” Eden said.
“It looks so different from how it used to look, and I remember when it first happened. Every time I’d look in the mirror, I’d be like, I’m never gonna look the way I used to, and I just had to accept that.”
Eden Harper’s injury story was her confession on MAFS
Eden explained that she actually shared her injury story during the experiment but it didn’t make the final edit.
“[The accident] was my confession letter on the show, which didn’t actually make the cut, but it was probably the hardest six months of my life because my face was in a bandage for six months, and I just thought every time I looked in the mirror I’d burst into tears because of all the scars and whatnot,” the TV bride confessed.
“The only one you can still see, though, is the one above my mouth. It was the worst one.”
MAFS’ Eden Harper opens up about cosmetic surgery
Eden said she wanted to open up about her injury due to speculation she had excessive lip fillers.
“I do get Botox in my forehead and that kind of thing. But the lips. The lips is because of my scar…. I don’t even get lip filler anymore,” she admitted.
“I used to when I was younger, definitely. So in those old photos, I actually was getting filler then, and I don’t get it now.”
Case closed!
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