I'll Suffer Any Pain to Be Beautiful ; How Far Would You Go for the Perfect Body? Leah Hardy has Been Zapped, Peeled, Waxed, Plucked and Injected Until She Screamed. So Why Does She Say She'd Happily Do It All Again? [Eire Region]

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THE French, of course, have a saying for it. Il faut souffrir pour etre belle. It is necessary to suffer to become beautiful. This is something I found myself muttering as I lay on a doctor's couch a few weeks ago, with something the size of a crochet hook snaking its way under the flesh of my jaw, bumping against the bone, squirting out synthetic filler as it went.

You see, I'd do just about anything to look better. I'd be, and have been, lasered, lipo-ed and injected, my teeth veneered. And if it hurts, well, it hurts.

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I'll Suffer Any Pain to Be Beautiful ; How Far Would You Go for the Perfect Body? Leah Hardy has Been Zapped, Peeled, Waxed, Plucked and Injected Until She Screamed. So Why Does She Say She'd Happily Do It All Again? [Eire Region]

In fact, I have to confess, I tend to think that if it feels good, it won't work. These days treatments are hardcore. Forget pampering -- the new beauty is punitive.

We have gone from facials involving stroking and moisturising to treatments such as the e250 facial by celebrity favourite Joanne Evans, which incorporates lasers and intense pulsed light, that are effective but far from relaxing. Where there used to be health farms where you could waft about in a dressing gown getti...

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