Daniella Westbrook has opened up about her next surgery, revealing that doctors will take part of her ribs and use them to reconstruct her face.
The former EastEndersactress, 52, spoke candidly about her feelings during an interview with Vanessa Felt’s new YouTube show, At Home With Vanessa.
Explaining she has already had six, but will need four more, she confessed: ‘I’m at that stage now where I come around from surgery with the last two and I’ve been like no more.’
‘I’m feeling okay,’ said Danniella: ‘I just got a phone call today actually for my next surgery date in October.
‘So that’s when they redo, make this bit [points to her nose] skinny and pull it up and they put the ribs in the side and stuff and everything to support it [her nose].’
Shocked Vanessa replied: ‘Bits from your ribs are going in the side of your nose. B****y hell. How many ops so far?’
‘I’ve had I think, six,’ Danniella replied as she said she has at least another four to go.
She explained: ‘I trust my surgeon implicitly. I really do trust him. But I do feel like I’m 52. I put my body through enough and then putting your body through anesthetic and it’s not short surgery. It’s like five or six hours each time.’
‘And the recovery from that. I’m really feeling the recovery if I’m honest. I just feel absolutely exhausted.
‘I feel like I’ve got nothing left. When I come around, I’m like, “Please just let me sleep.” I’ve got nothing left.
‘I’m at that stage now where I’ve come around from surgery with the last two and I’ve been like no more. This is just going to have to be how I look. I don’t want to do it anymore.
The actress is on an 18-month journey to repair her face after struggling with a collapsed septum following years of drug abuse.
2026-08-21 13:42:00
