Mum spent £1,300 having holes cut in her cheeks because she wanted dimples

A mum has forked out £1,300 on surgery to get 'cute' dimples like her 11-year-old son.

Beauty blogger AJ Weir,44-year-old, from Lincolnshire, said she thought her friends with dimples were able to use their adorable grins to get their own way.Around 10 years ago, she started investigating dimple surgery – called dimpleplasty –because she loved the features so much.

So it wasn’t until September this year that she finally had the controversial procedure.
She explained:

 “For a long time, I wanted dimples. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I think they are really cute.If somebody has dimples, I will try to stick my finger in their face. It’s really weird, but I just love them.“I see them as a sign of being cute.”

 Under a local anaesthetic, surgeons took a chunk out of the inside of her mouth and then they stitched that to her cheek.

She said:

The surgery itself was painless and because you’ve not had a general anaesthetic, you don’t feel groggy afterwards.
“I did start to swell up and looked a bit like a chipmunk, so I got some funny looks on the train. Over the next few days, the swelling started to go down and the bruising came out a lot more. It started to become quite sore and painful, but I never regretted having it done.”

When it had healed around a month later, friends and colleagues started to notice the difference to her face.

She explained: “Most people say I’m absolutely bonkers to have had it done. I went back to work the next day and I did get some funny looks. Within two weeks, people said I looked really good and that I had healed so well.
“Some people do notice that I have dimples now and didn’t before, but there’s no point going through all that if people don’t see them.
“My husband and my son think I’m absolutely bonkers and I can understand that. I can agree that is unnecessary to an extent - it’s not going to make me more successful, but it was just something that I wanted. I’m delighted with the results and a lot of people have told me they want it done too.
“My dimples look really natural. You wouldn’t think that I’ve had surgery.”

Culled from Daily Mirror