Alan McGarry shares reason they reversed cosmetic procedures on US reality show
Content creator Alan McGarry is in a "very good place" since reversing their plastic surgery on a US reality TV show, the influencer has told.
Alan is set to star in Botched Presents: Plastic Surgery Rewind, which follows nine celebrities and influencers as they consider whether to reverse previous plastic surgery work and go back to a more natural look. The show, which streams on Hayu from July 10, also features singer Aubrey O'Day and Kim Zolciak of The Real Housewives of Atlanta fame and is hosted by RuPaul's Drag Race judge, Michelle Visage, and plastic surgeon, Dr Terry Dubrow.
Alan told Ireland AM hosts Alan Hughes and Muireann O'Connell on the Virgin Media breakfast show that they wish they didn't get plastic surgery when they were younger. Alan said: "Alan is in a very good place. I think I'm not as out there and looking for attention, probably for the wrong reasons or whatever.
"I feel really good now I think doing this show, and it sounds very cliche and very cheesy, but it did change my perception of life now, and changed me as a person 100 per cent because I just feel much more confident in myself. Don't get me wrong, I have my days like everybody else, where, you know, you don't feel good, but yeah, I'm feeling much better in myself now."
Speaking about why Alan started getting plastic surgery from as early as 19, the Dubliner said: "I suppose growing up, I was, you know, ginger, I was a bit more chubbier, and people used to pick on me.
"I just wanted to change my appearance. I just wanted to get away from all those kind of bad names. So I started getting into, like, fillers, because lip fillers, back years ago, were a really big thing. The Jenners were doing it, so I think that was an addiction so we all started doing the trend.
"And then, I think I didn't realise when enough was enough so I continued and continued to just enhance my appearance every time I walked into a clinic. But I think I just wanted to fit in. I don't know where I wanted to fit in. I think it was just more so because social media was a really big thing, and I think I just wanted to be a part of that kind of tribe.
"I think it was just when you see something, you get influenced very quickly and I just wanted to enhance something I didn't really have, I suppose, when it got a flat lip, I think, I suppose I wanted to have a bigger lip. I think that's the reason why I started doing it."
Speaking about wanting to go on the US show, Alan said: "It (The show) came at the right time for me. I was kind of like, not understanding why I'm consistently having work done and why I'm having some surgery, and I was approached to go on the show, and I loved the whole concept, because the concept for me was just like, actually, you know what? This couldn't have come at a better time for me.
"To be honest, I didn't even know these types of people were going to be in the house. I didn't even know it was kind of a celebrity show. I just thought it was just normal people, social media people so when I see Michelle Visage as the host, I do scream, because obviously, you know, it's Michelle Visage. She's an icon and amazing.
"These were people that I never thought would even have a conversation with me or have a cup of tea with me. We really had a good time. And I'm in touch with Kim (Zolciak) and Larissa from the show," they added.
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