At the height of her fame, Tulisa Contostavlos dominated the charts and was a fan-favourite judge on The X Factor. And in the run-up to her joining I’m A Celebrity, the N-Dubz singer made sure she’d pulled out all the stops for her big comeback.
Before flying to Oz, she told her followers that she was going through an injectable hyaluronic acid treatment that can help increase firmness in the skin. Tulisa, 36, has previously admitted to having her lips done, and recently opened up on Love Island star Olivia Attwood’s So Wrong, It’s Right podcast about using fillers in an attempt to counteract a brutal health condition.
She spoke candidly about being diagnosed with Bell’s palsy in 2020, which causes weakness or paralysis on one side of the face. She explained that she’d started using fillers in an attempt to ‘balance out’ the effects of the condition, but that she’d still suffered with abnormal swelling in her face. In the end, it turned out Tulisa had chronically infected cysts in her cheek, which she recently had surgery to start removing.
The star has been facing questions about surgery for more than a decade, and in 2014, she hit back, saying, ‘It really bugs me when people say I’ve had a nose job. That’s just make-up. So, losing a stone, filler in my cheeks, my lips done and the contouring, people think, “Oh gosh, you look so different.” But I’m happy.’
And despite her amazing figure, Tulisa has said she won’t be strutting her stuff in the jungle shower, joking that she’d rather someone held up a towel to cover her. She added that she’d packed just three plain black bikinis ‘as I don’t want to draw attention to myself’. When it comes to diet, Tulisa also fasts a lot, which she reckons will help with the meagre portions in camp.
‘I always like fasting for health purposes,’ she said. ‘Sometimes, I spend a week eating lentils, so I don’t think it is going to bug me as much as others.’