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Mormon Wives' Jessi Breaks Down In Tears As She Regrets Latest Cosmetic Procedure, Says 'Terrible' Results 'Ruined My Life'!

Mormon Wives' Jessi Breaks Down In Tears As She Regrets Latest Cosmetic Procedure, Says 'Terrible' Results Have 'Ruined My Life'!

Jessi Draper, AKA Jessi Ngatikaura, isn’t happy with the way she looks post-surgery.

Back in January, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star revealed she got plastic surgery on her face — a whopping $25,000 worth of procedures! Wow! She underwent an upper and lower blepharoplasty, an eyelid surgery to remove excess skin, and she also did fat grafting. For those who don’t know, Jessi explained that she dissolved her facial fillers and injected fat from her outer thighs into the areas where she lost weight in her face to help “produce collagen” instead.

She knew it would take time for the swelling to go down, and that she had to “look worse” before looking “better.” But months later, Jessi is fully regretting going under the knife because the results aren’t what she wanted! The 33-year-old reality star took to TikTok on Thursday to share an emotional video about her plastic surgery.

Related: Jennifer Garner Reveals The Plastic Surgery Promise Her Kids Want Her To Make!

According to Jessi, while doing press for Season 4 of Mormon Wives, she has been receiving a lot of hate comments about her appearance — “rightfully so.” Her words, not ours. No one should ever bully someone over their looks. It’s mean, rude, and unnecessary. Jessi doesn’t deserve that kind of hate, and it breaks our hearts that she thinks she does. However, the Hulu personality agrees with the haters because she herself is very “unhappy” about her results:

“I want to tell everyone that I am extremely unhappy with my results, and I didn’t quite understand what I was getting into. I went in for a lower bleph, and then I asked about an upper bleph and ended up getting that.”

Jessi then shared she “did not want” to get fat grafting, but she “listened to a suggestion [without] really understanding what it was, what it was going to do, what the results were gonna be,” and “what the recovery was gonna be.” She now wishes she had never gotten it done, adding:

“At the end of the day, like, I wished that there had been more information.”

More than that, she wishes the doctor had only given her what she wanted! Jessi revealed that grafting was also “put in [her] lips,” which she didn’t “ask for [and] didn’t want.” OMG?! She continued:

“It’s made my lips really lumpy. I have one that dips. I’m getting a lot of comments about my lip filler, and I agree, it looks awful. My face looks terrible.”

That is not OK if what she said her doctor did is true! WTF! Jessi went on to say she looked “more swollen” while filming the video because she got Kybella to try to remove “some of the fat.” However, she explained that “grafting is extremely hard to remove in the face.” And in tears, she expressed how she is feeling “really insecure” now:

“I understand that I look really different, and I hate it. I look back at how I used to look [and] I watched season 4, and I’m like, ‘Damn. I looked really good.’ I wish I could have seen that. I’m gonna cry talking about it. I had such self-confidence issues. And looking back, I can totally see how I was blinded by those. And I was beautiful. I wasn’t able to say that a few months ago, and I can say that now.”

Oof! We wish Jessi could see how beautiful she is even now!

Jessi recognizes that she went “way too far” and knows to “never touch” her face again — “outside of Botox.” She then asked everyone to be kinder towards her:

“I really wish I would have been able to see my inner beauty earlier, and I wanted to share this because I’m getting a lot of hate. I just wanna encourage you that if you’re gonna leave a hate comment for someone? Please try to remember that they’re a real human being and they have feelings and emotions and they’re probably dealing with, you know, that self-hate more than, more hate than you could give them, you know?”

She also urged anyone who wants to get work done to think long and hard about it and do their research first:

“Also, I wanna share this because any of you that have insecurities, I still do say that if you have insecurities and you wanna get something done, do it. But think about it long and hard, and do your research and give it time before you do it. And I just think that it’s important for everyone to know that, yes, I condone getting things done if you’re unhappy, but I also am now learning that it’s okay not to. And it’s okay to be beautiful in your own skin and reach a level of confidence where you don’t feel like you need anything anymore. And I wish I would have realized that before I did my last one.”

Because now Jessi feels she “ruined” her whole life, explaining:

“I’ve really been struggling. I genuinely feel like this last surgery ruined my life. And I know that sounds dramatic, but my whole life is my image. I am on camera, I’m on a TV show, I’m having to do press interviews, and now I’m getting ripped apart by everyone. And when you watch season five, it’s gonna be even worse. I look f**king hideous all of season five. Like I do. My face is swollen. My eyes look crazy. I don’t look like how I used to, and I hate it. I’m very self-conscious, and I’m dreading the next season after this one coming out because of how I look. And it’s ruined my career in a sense because I don’t feel comfortable doing anything. I don’t feel comfortable taking opportunities. But I have to. I’m trying to push past it. I tried to just be brave and do press even though I don’t feel confident with how I look. I’m filming this season, not feeling confident, and I’m getting ripped apart, and it sucks because it’s not what I wanted.”

This make us so sad. We’re sending so much love to Jessi. Hopefully, fans will listen and treat her with more kindness going forward. Watch the video (below):

@_justjessiiii

Don’t know what’s going on with my nose with this filter.. but be kind ????????

♬ original sound – Jessi Draper

[Image via Jessi Draper/TikTok/Instagram]

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Mar 06, 2026 12:41pm PDT