Married At First Sight’s Eden Harper has revealed a traumatic incident that forever changed her appearance.
Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, Eden, 28, said her distinctive full lips are not a result of filler, but a freak accident which left her face partially paralysed.
The blonde beauty, who was paired with Jayden Eyneud on the show, underwent surgery on her mouth several years ago after she fainted and cut her face open.
‘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 explained.
‘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 has revealed a traumatic incident that forever changed her appearance. Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, Eden, 28, said her distinctive full lips are not a result of filler, but a freak accident which left her face partially paralysed
‘I had a hole, probably the size of a stretched out 20 cent coin. And in order to stitch it up there’s obviously a hole there and the surgery lifted my whole mouth upwards and it’s given me that giant upper lip look that I have.’
Eden said the injury killed some of her face muscles and her visage will never be the same.
‘It essentially killed the muscle in my mouth and has frozen all movement in the lower half of my face, which is quite unfortunate,’ she said.
‘It looks so different to how it used to look and I remember when it first happened, just every time I’d look in the mirror and I’d be like, I’m never gonna look the way I used to and I just had to accept that.’
The blonde beauty, who was paired with Jayden Eyneud on the show, underwent surgery on her mouth several years ago after she fainted and cut her face open
Eden said she tried to share the story on the Channel Nine dating show, but it didn’t make the cut.
‘(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,’ she said.
Eden’s scare is visible above her top lip
‘The only one you can still see though is the one above my mouth. It was the worst one.’
She said she was keen to speak out because of all the speculation around what cosmetic procedures she had undergone.
‘I do get Botox in my forehead and that, that kind of thing. But the lips. The lips is because of my scar…. I don’t even get lip filler anymore. 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..’
