Tulisa spoke out about her cosmetic enhancements in an unearthed interview, where she claimed her appearance is part of her ‘business’.
The former N-Dubz star, 36, who returned to screens on Sunday with the launch of I’m A Celebrity, showed off a new look that sparked reaction from viewers.
And as pal Rylan came to her defence, an interview from 2016 with Glamour Magazine resurfaced in which Tulisa discussed her relationship with her looks.
When asked if she is ‘done’ with fillers, Tulisa said: ‘Oh I get my lips done. I still love beauty and I still love treatments.
‘At the end of the day, it is a business for me. I do separate work and like is said, my home bubble and my reality. So I know my looks and my figure is a part of my business.’
Prior to her I’m A Celeb stint, Tulisa underwent a pre-Jungle makeover, getting her lips and eyebrows tattooed and topping up her lip filler and opting for long eyelash extensions.
Tulisa spoke out about her cosmetic enhancements in an unearthed interview with Glamour in 2016, where she claimed her appearance is part of her ‘business’
The N-Dubz star, 36, returned to screens on Sunday with the launch of I’m A Celebrity, showed off a new look that sparked reaction from viewers
Yet while she was looking stunning Down Under, Tulisa recently opened up about a health battle that left her in ‘horrific’ pain and fearing for her face.
The singer was diagnosed with Bell’s palsy in 2020 – a neurological disorder that causes paralysis or weakness on one side of the face when the facial nerve is damaged or stops working properly.
Yet she soon became locked in a vicious cycle of having filler to even out her appearance and her face becoming inflamed and swollen.
Speaking on Olivia Attwood‘s podcast So Wrong It’s Right this month, Tulisa admitted the problems were particularly bad around the time she reformed with her N-Dubz in 2022, ending their 11-year hiatus from the music scene with a new tour and single release.
A doctor soon got to the cause after performing an ultrasound on her face, finding ‘three chronically infected cysts’ in her cheek, one of which popped during an ‘explorative operation’ due to being so bulbous.
Tulisa shared: ‘I’ve no idea what they were caused by, they weren’t filler, they were just self-occurring, but I came out of the operation and instantly my face was less swollen.
She added that after having her first Bell’s palsy attack aged 24, she attempted to use fillers to ‘balance out’ her face, causing her to be locked in a ‘vicious cycle.’
Two years passed where the condition was kept at bay, but she started to feel a ‘low level swelling’ in the same cheek, which rapidly increased.
During her chat with Glamour, when asked if she is ‘done’ with fillers, Tulisa said: ‘I get my lips done. I still love beauty and I still love treatments. At the end of the day, it is a business for me’
She told the publication that cosmetic enhancements ‘is a business to her’ and ‘her looks and figure are part it (left, in on I’m A Celeb; right, when she first found fame in 2008)
She explained: ‘I would have like tingling sensations like little ants crawling in my face. I started seeing doctors all around the UK – “Something’s wrong with me, what’s wrong with my face” – it was so scary. This went all the way up until this year it was horrific.
‘I constantly felt like my cheek was on fire. I’d have good days and bad days and on some days, I’d take steroids, which would bring it down.
‘When I was doing that N-Dubz run it was at its worst, so you might see an interview, I look normal. And then you see another interview, it’s like, what the hell is going on with my face?’
Tulisa also shared her belief that the painful cysts had contributed to a long list of medical concerns she has battled with for years such as sarcoidosis and immune disorders.
When I’m A Celeb viewers reacted to her change in appearance, Rylan was quick to speak out.
He took to X/Twitter to share: ‘Also before people start going for appearance, Tulisa has been through a lot health wise the last few years so let’s not make s**t jokes about her on twitter yeah x. (sic)’
While she was looking stunning Down Under, Tulisa recently opened up about a health battle that left her in ‘horrific’ pain and fearing for her face.
When Tulisa made her I’m A Celeb debut her pal Rylan was quick to get ahead of any negative remarks that could come her way (pictured together in 2018)
Rylan was quick to point out Tulisa had ‘been through a lot’ in the last few years and shouldn’t be the butt of cruel jokes
The singer was diagnosed with Bell’s palsy in 2020 (pictured) a neurological disorder that causes paralysis or weakness on one side of the face when the facial nerve is damaged
Tulisa added that after having her first Bell’s palsy attack aged 24, she attempted to use fillers to ‘balance out’ her face, causing her to be locked in a ‘vicious cycle’ (pictured in 2011)
The Young hitmaker raised eyebrows when she showed off an extremely plump pout back in 2014 – with Tulisa later revealing she suffered an allergic reaction to her lip filler
Tulisa rose to fame in the mid-2000s with London hip-hop group, N-Dubz, achieving huge success with two platinum-certified albums and eight top 40 tracks, including hits No Regrets, Say It’s Over, Number 1 and Playing With Fire.
She eventually parted ways with them in 2011, going on to land the coveted role of X-Factor judge at the age of 22 and remains the youngest judge in the show’s history.
She was hired by Simon Cowell to replace Cheryl Cole and guided Little Mix to victory, who have gone on to become one of the most successful girl groups in history.
However, her X-Factor success was tainted by scandal as a sex tape featuring the star emerged online, leaked by her ex-boyfriend which she has since said made her feel like her ‘world was ending’.
After quitting the X-Factor in 2013, Tulisa was caught up in a drugs scandal when she was arrested on suspicion of supplying class-A drugs.