‘I’m looking my most fabulous’: US woman ‘living in van’ after forking out for $21k facelift

A 50-year-old woman has revealed she underwent a pricey facelift at the cost of her home – but she has no regrets and says she looks “outstanding”.

Kelly Beasley, 50, sold her house and used the earnings to pay for a plastic surgery overhaul. Picture: SWNS

A 50-year-old woman from the US has revealed that she underwent a facelift at the cost of her three-bedroom house — selling the property in Arizona so that she could afford the $US14,000 ($A21,000) procedure, according to South West News Service.

Kelly Beasley, a blogger who lives in Lake Tahoe, California, now travels in a van since selling her house but has a fresh new face to show for it, and wants to end the shame surrounding plastic surgery, the New York Post reports.

“Around 48, my face started dropping fast,” Ms Beasley explained to SWNS.

“The changes were astounding.”

She claimed that getting other injectables, like fillers, which she had been getting for the past 15 years, wasn’t going to “make a difference”, so she sold her pad as a “cushion” to cough up the cash.

“The results are beyond what I expected,” she said.

“I didn’t expect to look younger.”

Kelly Beasley, 50, sold her house and used the earnings to pay for a plastic surgery overhaul. Picture: SWNS

She said that she looks younger now than she did when she was 30-years-old. Picture: SWNS

In the end, she went for an extended facelift, neck lift, lip lift, and fat transfer from her thighs. Picture: SWNS

“I’m loving my look and looking my most fabulous that I can,” Ms Beasley added.

The 50-year-old explained that when she came to the conclusion that she wanted to get the procedure, nearby plastic surgeons quoted her work at $USD50,000 ($A74,000) to $US60,000 ($A89,000).

Then, she saw a woman on TikTok who had the procedure done in Tijuana, Mexico, for just $US14,000 with great results — so Beasley joined a Facebook group for EOC Plastics, an organisation that helps others co-ordinate plastic surgeries in Mexico.

She started looking at other women’s experiences and decided to sign up to be put on a cancellation list.

Ms Beasley was notified of a cancellation this past January but didn’t quite feel ready.

“A month later, they had another cancellation,’ Ms Beasley explained.

“I thought, ‘let’s do this’.”

“It was on February 14 – Happy Valentine’s to me.”

In total, the procedure cost $14,000. Picture: SWNS

Beasley said that the results are “beyond” what she had expected. Picture: SWNS

Ms Beasley travelled to Tijuana on February 13, just one day before she went under the knife, and endured a four-hour surgery, which involved taking fat from her thighs and putting it into her lips and her face.

In the end, she went for an extended face lift, neck lift, lip lift and fat transfer from her thighs.

She spent six days recuperating in a hotel in Tijuana and then drove back home to the US.

Ms Beasley compared the whole ordeal to being on a “vacation”.

“I woke up with (my) head wrapped in a giant crazy bandage,” Ms Beasley recalled to SWNS.

“I started taking pictures immediately.”

The 50-year-old claimed that she didn’t feel any pain, and instead, only experienced “discomfort”.

Beasley claimed that she wasn’t in much pain post-surgery. Picture: SWNS

So far, she is loving her new appearance, although she admitted that it does take some time to get used to the changing looks.

“After about a week-and-a-half I had a minor ‘oh crap’ moment,” she said.

“Your brain is having a hard time adjusting to your face.”

But now she’s a big fan and believes that the procedure took 20 years off her appearance.

She even said that she prefers her looks now than when she was 30, and is “having fun” putting on makeup again.

Ms Beasley wants to share her journey in hopes that others will stop the shame surrounding plastic surgery.

“If we do too much – we’re vain or insecure,” she said.

“If you don’t do anything, wear make-up or do your hair, they say ‘you’ve let yourself go’.”

The plastic surgery patient described the pressure as “exhausting”.

“I’m going to do what I want to do,” Ms Beasley said.

“Why not live the most fabulous life? Part of that for me is having plastic surgery.”

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and has been reproduced with permission.