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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
We were talking about this facelift that Chris Jenner got
the other day, and then we found out that Kim happily.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Over in Perth.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
She is the hairdresser owner of Bojo Blonde Salon. She's
been absolutely killing it in that respect, but then recently
headed over to Turkey to get the facelift.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Kim joins us right now from Perth. Hello, Kim, welcome,
will we.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Hi, thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
So great to have you on, mate. It's fascinated.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It's fascinating setup because there's so many questions that we
have to ask about this because I think the first
thing that came up obviously you're brought to our attention
by the producers.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
So you're you're thirty seven years old, right.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I am. Yeah, I'm thirty eight in December.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Nice happy birthday. So I suppose the big question for
me is why did you get a facelift at thirty seven?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I suppose yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
So for me, I think, you know, I've had a
child put on way, I've lost weight, and I'm in
front of the camera a lot. So I kind of
just started to notice some insecurities around like my lower face,
and I just sort of looked into the idea of
having it. I went to two consultations here in Perth,
and the doctors here in Australia are very by the book,
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I would say, and they straight away just said, no,
you're too young, not doing it. So then I sort
of started to look over in Turkey and found that
it was actually a lot more common that people in there,
probably later thirties, earlier forties were getting this procedure, and
I think you'll see as well that it will become
a lot more common now. But yeah, I just kind
of started to feel a little bit not as confident
in front of the camera. So I kind of decided, well,
I'm in a position to do something about it, so
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let's do it.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Was this the first time you've felt that insecurity around
the way you look, only like after having a child?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah, yeah, I definitely have very thick skin.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
And it's really funny because still as a person, I
don't really mind so much about the way that I look,
which is quite contradicting to having a facelift. But I
do get a lot of let's say hate on TikTok.
TikTok's quite overroad place, so I do get a lot
of advice people's unwanted advice on TikTok. But it was
something that I was saying to feel a little bit
more insecure about as I was getting older. And I
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think that that's just probably like an anti aging thing
for a woman. It's probably quite common that late thirties,
early forties starts to sort of creep in.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, sure can I can? I ask you if you
feel comfortable sharing. How much did it cost to get?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yeah, So essentially I had I had chin LiPo, I
had buckle fat removal, I had a temporal lift, which
is like a forehead lift. I had a deep plane
neck and facelift. And they also pinned my ears back,
which TikTok was very happy about.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
And so that cost me.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
A total of it was forty thousand Australian dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Okay, probably it's probably less than I thought. It's a lot.
It's a signal. Christ Jana one was one hundred k.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yeah, I think they'd hear her coming and put the
price up. But in.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Australia, I think for what I've had is probably looking
out there more about sixty sort of seventy thousand, and
so it is still substantially cheap. Of it's quite I
think for what I had done, it it was you know,
it's a lot of money, but you know it was
worth it for me.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So hey, Kim, can I ask that.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I think it's fascinating that, you know, in the past,
we were just saying before that cosmonic procedures. I remember,
you know, some of the big ones that we've sort
of seen and sort of entered the zeit guys. So
now my partner will say to me, you know this
this person had this done, or it looks like this
person had this done. And in the past, I feel
as if that was quite covert, like it was almost
something to be embarrassed about.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
It wasn't discussed.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
People would deny it, like I remember when Renees Elwegger
got one and it was so obvious and ever I
got it, you know, and ever she was like, no,
I didn't actually do it, and it was like you
you look very different. But now all of a sudden,
it's sort of changed from being something which is to
be hidden covert, into something which you know you're on
here on the on the radio and you're almost not boasting,
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but proudly talking about it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Why do you think that's changed.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I think that we're living a life of documenting our
life now. I think with social media that's very much
become apparent where we document what we do and we
get paid to do it, so well, you know, certain
people do. I think for me, the reason that I
wanted to do it is because when I was trying
to do my research, and this is my son's generation sixteen,
they don't go to Google anymore.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
They go to TikTok. That's how they research things.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
So when I was trying to research you know more
so like the healing, recovery and stuff of a facelift,
there was just nothing out there, you know, video sort
of footage that I could find. So for me, that's
why I decided to do it. I have seen a
lot more of a spike in people sort of documenting
their procedures.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Now.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I would like to think that it's so that other
people can see what's sort of happening, but there is
an element to it that well, yeah, look, it boosted
my brand and got me a lot of jobs, and
I got paid and stuff. So you know, there's that
element that's your world.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Let's not like let's not like that's your world.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
By the way I appreciate it. We're going to go
to a song we've got. Kim Happier joins this from Perth.
She has just had this procedure that everyone's talking about
at the moment called a facelift.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Learning a lot.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I think we need to talk a little bit about
the actual procedure itself, because the photos from Turkey.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Are why when you're talking about everything around that.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Obviously there's a massive discussion about the role of because mesis,
I should say, particularly with women and young women in particular.
Here's Chris Jenna talking about it after she had a facelift.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Alia.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
I filmed a facelift fifteen years ago, and I've done
everything from a hip replacement surgery that was brutal. I
filmed that. I think that it really is somehow my
way of showing people and trying to inspire others not
to be afraid of you surgeries that you need, that
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are necessary, or even something you want to do because
you want to feel better about yourself, and don't be
afraid of it.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Kim, there's going to be a portion of our audience
that hear that and shudder and that are very afraid
of what she's saying there, particularly with you, Like I
can imagine my mum's generation YEA, being like appalled that
the messages. Don't be afraid of changing yourself if you
want to change yourself.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
How do you feel about that sort.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Of line of argument, which is that, you know, sort
of changing yourself physically is ultimately a short term fix
to a mental or problem.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Yeah, Like, I think there is probably some truth behind that.
I'm sure that there are some certain people that you know,
change the way that they look, maybe because they're not
fulfilled within themselves. I mean, I can only speak for
how I feel, and I just think that it's actually
been quite the opposite, like quite empowering as a woman
to get a procedure that's actually made me feel better
about myself internally, and you know how amazing that there's
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something that we can do to do that. We go
and we do these beauty treatments and stuff, and they're
essentially not drastically changing the way we look, but they
are improving the way we feel because of the way
we look. So Yeah, for me, it's just kind of
like that internal sort of satisfaction. And I think Christiana's
just she's iconic, and I think that she hit the
nail on the head where she said, essentially, if she
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feels more confident, then she performs better in her everyday
you know, job and business and everything. And I think
that that's exactly what it's done for me. So I
think there's a lot of old mindset. My mum was
definitely like that. It was her first time. I feel
so bad. It was her first time leaving the country
and it was to come to Turkey to get a
facelift with me after me, I know, and she.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
With you she got one too.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
She did not get one. He was hanging off her
face and he say you're next, and she said nothing.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
So she definitely had that mindset, and she has since
then been like, oh my gosh, I wish I did
it at your age, like it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
So I'm not surprised you to your mum over there, though,
because I imagine the recovery would have been pretty hectic.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Kim.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I've got a photo in front of me, and it's great,
amazing that you documented the entire thing. But there's a
photo I'm looking at here, which looks more like the
photo of someone who's been through a shark.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Attack, Like, yeah, it's not great.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
The stitches on the side of the face. Can you
run us through a little bit what it was like?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Yeah, So the first three days I was scared that
I would have this intense pain for the rest of
my life.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
And you know, what have I done?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
It was quite honestly, you know, I've had a baby,
I've been through it, and it was the most painful
thing I've ever experienced. I think a lot of regret,
and I think not to brush over that lightly because
I am seeing a lot of content, you know, online
where people are having a facelift and a couple of
days later they're up and walking around and they're amazing.
That was not the case for me. As quick as
the pain was there, it was gone. And by day
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five I was on no pain relief at all. I
always said, anyone the messages me, just get through the
first three days.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Is it scary to know that? I was, well, Kim,
that you'll probably have to go back for a relift,
and do you know when well, you know, this is
the thing, this is the thing.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Everyone's like, why do you do it now?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
And I'm like, well, right now I'm in front of
the camera, I care what I look like. I'm probably
as vain as I'm ever going to be. I hope
that when I'm sixty, I'm drunk in my garden, not
caring about what anyone getting to look like. And so
I hope that I'm probably not going to want to
get one. Then, you know, I'm I think that I'm
going to be pretty happy with this our age gracefully.
You know, Bob's your uncle.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Off I go.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
If I get another one, I get another one, Like,
I'm not opposed.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
It's also in fifteen years, is that right, Kim? Like
that's like, I mean, like who knows, Like I mean,
I can't really ever plan more than two years ahead,
Like who knows what's going.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
To happen to be honest, exactly that And that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Well, you look beautiful, Kim. It's been it's been awesome
to talk to you. Thanks so much for just being
so candid as well. I think that's what I find
so interesting about this conversation.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
At the moment.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
It's kind of hard to knock or dis or have
anything nasty to say about people. If they're honest about
all of this. Yeah, really interesting, isn't it. You just
front up, You're like, yeah, this is what I wanted
to get. I was insecure.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I got it. I paid a lot of money for it.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Here I am.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I'm back.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Yeah glad I did it.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Nice? All right mate, Well appreciate it. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Thank you for having me. Guys, have a good weekend.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
See Kim Kim Kim happily there from Perth. Facebook Fridays
could be a thing. Gotta feel next feel to it.
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