Former boxing promoter Kellie Maloney has said she feared that her head would explode after her agonising facial reconstruction surgery went drastically wrong.
Maloney, 61, who is around 18 months into her transition period to change gender, reportedly suffered internal bleeding and required emergency surgery after she had a reaction to the operation at a Belgian clinic.
'I just felt my head inflating like a balloon. It was getting bigger and bigger by the second, I could hardly see. I feared it was going to explode,' she told the Sunday Mirror's Matthew Drake.
Maloney, who has three children, has been hooked up to a tube to drain the excess fluid from her head, and worries about what her face will look like once the swelling has subsided.
Maloney, who announced earlier this year that she was now living as a woman, has already undergone hormone therapy, electrolysis to remove excess body hair, counselling and voice coaching.
The Celbrity Big Brother star said she had undergone previous facial surgery in Spain without any issue, so felt confident before going to hospital for surgery on her nose, eyelids and cheeks, as well as a facelift.
However, Maloney said she is still determined to have the final operation to become a woman, and is set to have a breast augmentation operation and gender reassignment surgery in February at a private clinic.
She added: 'I am living really well now, I am pleased that the public are really good to me and my daughters are great. The operation will be the final piece of the jigsaw, then I can start living my life properly.
'Most of my friends are retiring but I am living life all over again.'
Kellie is also sharing her story and supporting others within her support group, talking at events and helping other transgender people.
She even revealed that she's toying with the idea of getting back into boxing to prove that women can do it too.
'At least it will stop me shopping,' she joked.
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