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Irish Daily Mirror
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
Alan McGarry shares reason he reversed cosmetic procedures on US reality show
Content creator Alan McGarry has said he is in a "very good place" since reversing his plastic surgery on a US reality TV show. Alan is set to star in Botched: 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 he wishes he didn't get plastic surgery when he was 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 he 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," he added.
Irish Independent
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Dubliner Alan McGarry hails ‘life-changing' experience on surgery reversal show with US reality stars
Botched: Plastic Surgery Rewind follows nine celebrities and influencers as they consider whether to reverse previous plastic surgery work and go back to a more natural look. The new reality show sees McGarry, alongside celebrities and personalities including singer Aubrey O'Day and Kim Zolciak of The Real Housewives of Atlanta fame. It is hosted by RuPaul's Drag Race judge, Michelle Visage, and plastic surgeon, Dr Terry Dubrow. Dubliner McGarry (35) said they didn't think the likes of O'Day and Zolciak would 'have time to chat' to them, but the other participants on the show had plenty of time for them. 'To be in a house of people that don't know me, living an A-list lifestyle in LA, it was so nice for those people to say nice things. It was a shock, because I'm not used to hearing good things. 'For them to sit with me and have a cup of coffee and tell me all the good things about me meant a lot.' While McGarry had work done in an effort to look better, they said it had the unintended consequence of attracting attention in public. 'I was so involved in how I wanted to look and present myself to people, the aesthetics and getting work done. 'People used to look and stare at me. It was a horrible feeling. I just wanted to have people stop looking at me and to feel and look normal. When I walk down the road, I never stop and stare at anybody.' McGarry has been getting work done since the age of 19 or 20, and that path started with how they were treated growing up in Ballyfermot. 'I went to an all-boys primary school and people used to pick on me for being very flamboyant, and I suppose the bullying affected me in so many different ways. 'I started to change my look. And what I started to do was colour my hair consistently, because the ginger thing was a very big thing for me growing up. 'I know it might be funny now when people read it. Right now, it's a lovely thing to be ginger, but back then it just wasn't a great thing.' Motivated to join the show by regrets over a Brazilian butt lift (BBL), McGarry said the experience became about many other aspects of their appearance. 'It was all about the butt lift. I didn't realise that deep down, there were other things that I wanted to get rid of.' 'It took me maybe a week or so in the house to realise the show was actually helping me decide my journey. If I didn't go on this show, I think I'd still be in a position to be going out and doing things to myself to make myself look better.' They said their experience at the Hollywood 'rewind retreat' proved to be a journey of self-discovery. 'The show changed my life and my perspective in life. If I wasn't on the show, I don't think I'd know who the real Alan was. Since leaving the house, I'm living the true me.'
