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Daily Mail
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Skye Wheatley's bombshell Ozempic confession: Aussie reality star exposes little-known influencer secret about the weight loss drug
Skye Wheatley has dropped a major Ozempic bombshell. The reality star took to her Instagram story on Wednesday to answer some of her fans' questions, with one opening a can of worms when it came to the diabetic drug. 'Thoughts on Ozempic,' one follower asked the Big Brother star, which saw her candidly reveal the truth behind its use in Australia. 'That most girls are taking it,' the 31-year-old shockingly confessed, seemingly referring to fellow influencers. 'But as soon as you stop, you're gonna want food more than ever eventually,' she added. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. 'Me after the jungle - hungry hungry binge eating girlie,' she wrote, alluding to the amount of food she ate after she completed filming on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! - a reality series on which stars are often given limited food. Ozempic is an anti-diabetic medication used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. However, the drug increases the level of incretins, making you feel full, which is why many are turning to Ozempic to manage their weight. Recently, Skye raised eyebrows after revealing the total amount she has spent undergoing cosmetic surgeries in her life. The I'm a Celebrity! winner spilled the personal detail to her co-host Callum Hole, 27, on the second episode of their new Nova podcast Skye & Callum. Skye estimates the total cost of her cosmetic enhancements is close to half a million dollars. 'Honestly, I would say all up maybe $200,000,' Skye said at first. However, after factoring in 'heaps of' cosmetic procedures such as laser skin treatments, Botox, which she says costs $300 to $400 per session, and fillers such as Profhilo which can cost $500 per session, she admitted the total would be more than double: 'But if we're going off my life, I'm going to say $500,000 '. Skye is a vocal advocate for transparency about her 'entirely unnatural' appearance in the social media space. The Australian influencer has courted controversy for admitting to having liposuction, rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty (where they cut the saggy eyelid skin and sew it together), multiple boob jobs, as well as her headline-grabbing fox eye lift in Turkey last September. Some of these procedures, she has previously admitted, were undertaken against the advice of her plastic surgeon. 'The latest surgery that I've had done is the temporal lift - so the fox eye - and I went to Turkey to have that done which is pretty traumatic if I'm being completely honest,' she told Callum. 'Overall, I'm stoked [with the result].' However, when she first woke up, Skye was 'blind for three days' and couldn't walk because she was catheterised and 'dosed up on morphine'. 'Couldn't walk. Couldn't move. I needed to vomit,' and what's more she couldn't speak to the nurses because 'no one spoke English'. 'I was screaming help. I don't know what I would've done if I hadn't gone with a friend,' she said. The fox eye lift surgery, designed to mimic the red carpet look of the same name, has pulled back the outer corner of her eyes to have the almond shape usually achieved with dramatic eye make-up.
Daily Mail
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Skye Wheatley reveals the eye-watering amount she has spent on cosmetic surgery
Skye Wheatley has revealed the shocking total figure she has spent undergoing cosmetic surgeries in her life. The I'm a Celebrity! winner, 31, spilled the personal detail to her co-host Callum Hole, 27, on the second episode of their new Nova podcast Skye & Callum. Skye estimates the total cost of her cosmetic enhancements is close to half a million dollars. 'Honestly, I would say all up maybe $200,000,' Skye said at first. However, after factoring in 'heaps of' cosmetic procedures such as laser skin treatments, Botox which she says costs $300 to $400 per session, and fillers such as Profhilo which can cost $500 per session, she admitted the total would be more than double: 'But if we're going off my life, I'm going to say $500,000.' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Skye is a vocal advocate for transparency about her 'entirely unnatural' appearance in the social media space. The Australian influencer has courted controversy for admitting to having liposuction, rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty (where they cut the saggy eye lid skin and sew it together), multiple boob jobs, as well as her headline grabbing fox eye lift in Turkey last September. Some of these procedures, she has previously admitted, were undertaken against the advice of her plastic surgeon. 'The latest surgery that I've had done is the temporal lift - so the fox eye - and I went to Turkey to have that done which is pretty traumatic if I'm being completely honest,' she told Callum. 'Overall, I'm stoked [with the result].' However, when she first woke up, Skye was 'blind for three days' and couldn't walk because she was catheterised and 'dosed up on morphine'. 'Couldn't walk. Couldn't move. I needed to vomit,' and what's more she couldn't speak to the nurses because 'no one spoke English'. 'I was screaming help. I don't know what I would've done if I hadn't gone with a friend,' she said. The fox eye lift surgery, designed to mimic the red carpet look of the same name, has pulled back the outer corner of her eyes to have the almond shape usually achieved with dramatic eye make-up. Skye's longtime partner Lachlan Waugh told her she looked 'f**king horrific' post op and her kids said she looked 'so scary.' 'That's horror movie spec,' Callum agreed. Skye was forced to address accusations of a plastic surgery addiction shortly after she announced she was travelling to Turkey last year. 'Really not being a hater - but YOU'RE the exact reason girls have self esteem issues,' one follower wrote on her Instagram. 'I want to be completely open and honest about everything that I'm having done because I don't want young girls to look at me and think I'm natural because I'm not,' Skye said. 'I don't want young girls to look at me and think they have to do that in order to feel beautiful. I wasn't born like this and I'm not going to get online and fake it. I'm honest about having body dysmorphia.' Body dysmoprhia, or body dysmorphic disorder, is a mental illness where sufferers obsessively focus on a perceived flaw in appearance. The flaw may be minor or imagined, but a person with BDD may spend hours a day trying to fix it. According to the American Psychiatric Association, people with BDD 'often seek unnecessary surgical interventions'. 'I've always been like this,' Skye admitted, saying her obsession with 'tweaking' her body began in primary school. Callum, who rose to fame on Love Island in 2022, joked that if Skye had a book of all her surgeries, 'it would be like a Bible,' and because of her propensity for surgeries 'Lachy's got a new girlfriend every couple of months.' After Skye entered the public eye on Big Brother in 2014, the first surgery she had done was a breast augmentation in Thailand that almost resulted in 'three boobs.' 'It was through some CosMedi tour. You know, the Australian companies that fly you over to Thailand because it's cheaper and it was a massive disaster,' she recalled. She then had her nose reconstructed before having her two sons, Forest, six, and Bear, three, before 'getting my boobs done again.' 'When I woke up, I felt like a truck had been dropped on my chest both times,' Skye said. Skye went back under the needle, less than six months after getting the 'fox eye lift' and several other beauty enhancement procedures in Turkey last year. The influencer starred in a promotional video for Gold Coast cosmetic injectables clinic, sharing the results of her new side profile to Instagram on after getting 'chin filler.' Chin fillers involve injecting temporary dermal fillers, which are gel-like substances, into the soft tissues of the jaw to create a stronger jawline. In addition to her fox eye lift, which she said made her look like an 'angry bird', Skye also had liposuction on her arms and inner thighs, a temporal lift and a blepharoplasty. A temporal lift is a fat transfer into the face to prevent the need for injectable dermal fillers and a blepharoplasty is an eyelid surgery. In Australia, the cosmetic surgery industry brought in a number of rigorous reforms backed by practitioners in July 2023 and further reforms will be introduced in September 2025 to restrict the number of under 18s undergoing procedures.
Daily Mail
03-06-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
Aussie entrepreneur announces shock decision to step back from fashion empire
Brittney Saunders has revealed that she is hitting pause on her fashion brand Fayt, telling fans she doesn't want the business to 'outgrow' her. The fashion founder, 32, who is now a multimillionaire after starting her size-inclusive fashion label, shared the shock news on her Nova podcast Big Business on Monday. She assured fans that the brand wasn't going anywhere and would still be open for business as usual, but she wasn't making any big moves for the future. 'In the last three years, we've opened four more stores, right? And that's a lot, especially for a company like Fayte where I'm the one funding it,' she said. 'I don't have a board of directors and a panel of investors or anything.' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. The 'solo-owned' business was an exciting adventure for the content creator, however she was 'mindful of the fact that I never want Fayte to outgrow me.' Brittney opened up about her fears regarding the company and its future in the fashion landscape. 'I don't want Fayte to grow so big that I end up hating the company or my job,' she said, noting that the more a business grows, the more stress it adds to your life. 'For my own personal sake and my own mental health, it's been great to kind of slow things down,' she shared. Brittney founded her online business in 2017 after noticing a glaring gap in the fashion sphere when it came to size-inclusive clothing. However, after starting the label in her early 20s, there were a few things Brittney was oblivious about when diving into the business game, particularly when it came to her taxes. Speaking on her podcast last year, she said there was a period where she hadn't paid her taxes in over two years, resulting in a staggering $100,000 tax bill. 'I didn't know how it worked, I was so used to working my Monday to Friday full-time job and getting my pay slip every week and seeing the tax being taken out. And then all of a sudden, I'm working for myself at 21 years old, I didn't know how tax worked,' she admitted. However, after starting the label in her early 20s, there were a few things Brittney was oblivious about when diving into the business game, particularly when it came to her taxes The YouTube vlogger added she didn't have a 'supportive family network' who knew about self employment. 'No one ever taught me about money, or how to save or tax or anything like that,' she said. 'So, for around two years, when I was an influencer and earning all this money, I just simply didn't pay tax. Because when you own your own business, or you're working for yourself. 'I didn't know how I was meant to pay tax, like, how do you do that? What do you genuinely do? Because when you're getting paid as a self employed person and you've got payments coming in, the money just goes into your account and that's it! 'Then you have to work out how you're going to pay tax on that. You don't pay tax every week the way that employees do. You have to collect [the money] all together, and then have an accountant, process that for you for the end of financial year.' Brittney said she finally enlisted an accountant after growing concern for her finances and received a phone call from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) for the outstanding payments, and was told she owed a whopping $100,000.
