All I want for Christmas is a nose job

A 17-YEAR-OLD British girl got a nose job as an early Christmas present from her mum after suffering years of taunts and misery.

Natalie Miller’s mother used an inheritance to pay for the 6,000 cosmetic surgery, despite initially objecting, because her daughter was so self-conscious about her looks.

Natalie, from east London, said: “I felt too unattractive to be anyone’s girlfriend. I tried to do everything to disguise my nose, from make-up to wearing my hair down.”

Her mother, Clare, 47, said the money was well spent despite her initial worries.

“For a year she wouldn’t go out and just stayed indoors so I agreed,” she told the latest edition of Closer magazine.

The student, who had the two-hour operation at the St John and St Elizabeth Hospital in London in November, said the problems started when she was 13 and a boy called her “big nose”. “From then on my nose made me unhappy and paranoid,” Ms Miller said.

She dreamed of having cosmetic surgery but her mother, a carer, was shocked.“There were rows and tears as I became more miserable,” said Natalie, who is about to start a college beauty course.

“Finally, after seeing how upset it was making me, she changed her mind.”

Natalie said she was not nervous about the operation, which removed a bump by shaving the nose, but excited about getting her new nose.

“When I had the plaster cast off, it looked wonderful and I started laughing and crying at the same time,” she told Closer.