Meet the Body Freaks mum who’s hooked on growth hormones jabs to keep herself young and makes a fortune from her selfies
Jacqui takes 100 selfies a day and injects illegal drug to stay young
A MUM who takes 100 selfies a day has admitted she risks her life by injecting herself with human growth hormone to stay young.
Jacqui Ryland’s selfie-obsession has earned her a fortune as strangers shower her with gifts including wide-screen TVs, an Apple Mac and even a £5,000 Rolex watch.
But the 29-year-old mum admits that her obsession with her looks means she is putting her health in danger.
Speaking on Channel 5’s Body Freaks: Make Me a Perfect 10, she said: “Every morning I inject growth hormone. The side effects mean your heart can grow, which is dangerous.
“It makes your skin look better, makes you look younger and your nails and hairs grow and shed fat.
“The side effects are that your heart can grow... and if you have a cancerous cell in your body you are going to multiply that cell at a really quick rate. Is it addictive? Yes, because the results you get are addictive.
“If I stop taking it, after the two weeks when it’s leaving your body, you put weight on easier, you feel more tired and you feel less positive and more depressed.
“I have been told it is crazy and a massive risk. But if someone tells me not to do something, nine out of ten times I will go and do it.”
She added: “It’s an addiction. I don’t think I’ll ever stop. Until I’m dead. Then I’ve got no choice.”
The mother-of-two, who had her first boob job at 17, felt ugly as a child.
She said: “When I was at school I hated my appearance. I hated the fact I was flat-chested. I wanted to have boobs. I hated my hair. I hated everything about myself and then I started to change it.”
But the single mum admits regretting having three boob jobs, after her PIP implant ruptured leaving her with silicone collecting in her armpit and wonky breasts, and forcing her to go under the knife again
She admitted: “When it came to my third boob job I had kids and I remember thinking if you die on this operating table, you’ve done that through vanity. What are your kids going to think?”
“But you get to a certain level and then you get to the next level, so you think, 'How can I get to the next level?'"
Jacqui, from Worcester, takes over 100 selfies a day and now has 100,000 followers on Snapchat and 94,000 on Instagram.
She said: "If I’m in the gym I take a selfie. I go to bed at night, I take a selfie. I got somewhere, I take a selfie. Not without a filter though.
“To me taking a selfie is the same as taking a breath of oxygen.”
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Jacqui’s selfie obsession has filtered down to children Grace, nine, and James, seven.
“Even when I’m with my kids they’re like ‘Let’s do a selfie,’” she said.
Now Jacqui is showered with gifts by complete strangers – thanks to her boobs.
She said: “My boobs have got me noticed, there is not a day that goes by on the internet when someone doesn't mention my boobs.
“I have a wishlist that I publish on social media and the people just buy things and send them to me. The majority of the time I have no clue who sent it.
“My widescreen TV just turned up. The Apple Mac, which was about £1,500, tablets, shoes, handbags, Louis Vuitton sunglasses then really expensive items like a Cartier bracelet.
“I cringe to be one of the world's biggest selfie takers but I can't complain as it has taken me where I am today.”
Body Freaks: Make Me A Perfect 10 is on Channel 5 Tuesday at 10pm
