Why ‘SLOMW’ Star Jessi Draper Says She Looks “F--king Hideous” After Plastic Surgery
Jessi Draper Ngatikaura is sharing an update on her plastic surgery results.
After the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star documented her recovery following multiple cosmetic procedures—including an upper and lower blepharoplasty, which “removes excess skin from the eyelids,” according to the Mayo Clinic as well as facial fat grafting to restore the lost volume in her face—she shared that she isn’t satisfied with the final outcome.
“I want to tell everyone that I am extremely unhappy with my results and I didn’t quite understand what I was getting into, to be honest,” she said in a Mar. 6 TikTok video. “I went in for a lower bleph and then I asked about an upper bleph and ended up getting that. [I] Did not want fat grafting, to be honest. I just listened to a suggestion, not really understanding what it was, what it would do, what the results were gonna be, what the recovery was gonna be.”
“And I really wished I would have asked more questions,” she added. “I wished I wouldn’t have done it. I wish I would have said, ‘No.’”
Jessi also noted that the grafting was “put in [her] lips,” which she didn’t “ask for [and] didn’t want,” causing them to appear “really lumpy.”
In an attempt to correct the results from the graft, the 33-year-old said that she got Kybella—injections that are used to reduce fat under the chin, according to Mayo Clinic—to slim her face down.
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The reality TV star—mom to Jagger, 5, and Jovi, 3, with husband Jordan Ngatikaura—also shared how the surgeries have taken a toll on her mental health.
“I’ve really been struggling,” she added. “I genuinely feel like this this last surgery ruined my life,” later adding of her appearances in the upcoming season of Mormon Wives, “I look f--king hideous all of season 5, I do. My face is swollen. My eyes look crazy. I don’t look like how I used to and I hate it.”
And while she initially got plastic surgery to boost her self-esteem, the results have made her realize just how much she preferred her appearance before the procedures.
“I have such self-confidence issues,” she explained, “and looking back I can totally see how I was blinded by those and I was beautiful and I wasn’t able to say that a few months ago and I can say that now. And unfortunately, I went way too far because of those insecurities.”
“It’s like the biggest learning lesson of my whole life that I’ll never touch my face again outside of botox,” she quipped. “And I really wish I would have been able to see my inner beauty earlier.”
For more stars who have been open about their plastic surgery journeys, read on…
The Love Is Blind season three alum shared that she had gotten a boob job amid her divorce from husband Brennon Lemieux.
"I'm officially day five post-surgery and I feel pretty much back to normal for the most part," she shared in her January 2026 TikTok video. "I did a lift and an implant. Recovery hasn't been as tough as I thought that it would be. This is a surgery that I have been wanting to do for quite some time now, really, since I stopped breastfeeding my daughter. My girls just never set the same as they did before."
The Uncut Gems actress shared that she sometimes regrets the reasons she underwent her past cosmetic surgeries, which include liposuction, a rhinoplasty, veneers, Botox and fillers.
“When I see someone and I can tell they've never done anything,” she told Allure in August 2025, “I wish I could go back and be that person. I was so hung up on this idea that I needed to be attractive to men so that I could survive.”
Still, she admitted, “I probably will [get more work done one day], but I'm just not as concerned with it right now.”
The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum reversed her under-eye filler—which she got right after turning 18—on E!'s makeover series Botched Presents: Plastic Surgery Rewind.
"My skin is tighter," the reality star noted during the July 2025 episode. "I feel more youthful, more beautiful, more confident than ever before."
The 90 Day Fiancé alum debuted a jaw-dropping transformation after deciding to remove her gigantic breast implants on the July 30, 2025 episode of E!'s makeover series Botched Presents: Plastic Surgery Rewind.
"This reversal has been one of the most liberating and healing decisions I’ve ever made," Larissa exclusively told E! News after downsizing from 1,500 cc implants to 700 cc implants.. "It feels like I reclaimed a part of myself that I had put aside for the sake of an image, for expectations that weren’t truly mine."
The Shark Tank star shared a laundry list of plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures she's undergone over the years in a June 2025 Instagram post.
The Watch What Happens Live host, who had been open through the years about never getting Botox, revealed in March 2025 that he had embarked on his cosmetic journey and finally got the injectable procedure, which aims to reduce wrinkles.
"I just got it for the first time in my life," he said during the season 11 reunion episode of Married to Medicine. "About a month ago. They gave me a little."
After years of denying cosmetic procedures, the lifestyle expert confessed in a February 2024 episode of her eponymous podcast that she gets Botox, fillers and lasers to tighten her skin. "I don't think a lot about age," she explained, "but I don't want to look my age."
The One Tree Hill alum discussed her cosmetic procedures—including Botox and getting breast implants—on her Whine Down podcast in February 2024. During the episode, she confessed her one qualm about her boob job.
“My biggest regret with my boobs is that I don't know if I solely did it for me,” Jana said. “My biggest piece of advice is it has to be 100 percent for you.”
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In a Vanity Fair video released September 2024, the Wicked actress shared, "I've had fillers in various places and Botox, but I stopped like, four years ago. And that is the extent."
The Teen Mom 2 alum, a mother of seven, underwent a Brazlian butt lift and tummy tuck in 2016, and another tummy tuck, liposuction and breast reduction surgery in December 2024.
A month later, she spoke candidly about wrestling with her body image.
"I pray that my kids never struggle with their body images enough to mutilate their bodies to be skinny," she said on Instagram. "I think a little nip and tuck in terms of a nose job, or like a boob job is OK. But to go through this to be skinny is mental illness, truly. And I say that with the most respect to anyone going through it."
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Blanchard underwent a rhinoplasty and septoplasty (nose job) in April 2024, three months after she was released from prison (where she served seven years for her role in the murder of her mother Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard).
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The Real Housewives of Dubai star publicly documented her November 2023 face lift and the recovery on social media.
"I wanted people to see how, when you come out, the scars and the cuts and what it really looks like," she exclusively told E! News of the procedure. "I literally looked like I'd been in a car crash and the car had won, but five days later you're presentable. Ten days later I was in a restaurant completely fine."
As for why the Bravo star was so open about her face lift journey? As she noted, "Being on a reality TV show, obviously it's going to look weird if I come back next season looking 10 years younger, which I do, obviously."
