Laura Summers was addicted to plastic surgery – until, a day after a lip jab, she woke up looking like this. The model, who had spent £60,000 ($90k) on procedures, said: “I looked in the mirror and screamed. All I could see was a monster looking back at me.”

Her lips had ballooned to four times their normal size after a botched jab that was meant to make them sexily plump. Now Laura, once branded the vainest woman in Britain, wants to warn others about the risk of cowboy cosmetic companies.

Her nightmare started when she had the fillers put in by injection. It only took a few minutes, and it all seemed really professional. But soon, her whole face was numb and she began dribbling uncontrollably. The next day she woke up to the horrifying swelling and went straight to hospital. However, medics could do little as they did not know what had been used as the filler.

She was eventually prescribed antibiotics to help the swelling but it took months for her lips to begin to go down. Even now, more than 20 months on, her lips are still not back to their normal size.