Devyn Aiken has felt since she was a young child that people spot her nose first, and not in a good way. She wondered how different life could be, and for years she dreamed about chnaging it.
That dream has now come true at the age of thirty. Devyn has had the transformation she has always wanted after saving $11,000 for a rhinoplasty for over ten years. She didn’t expect, however, how much the transformation would affect her outside of the mirror.
Devyn Aiken has always felt awful about her appearance.
Although her 61,500 TikTok followers frequently misunderstand it, Devyn Aiken never thought of herself as ugly before to her operation in November. She didn’t select to have a rhinoplasty to transform her self-esteem, despite what many people believe.
“I thought I was a pretty girl. I didn’t think I was ugly,” she said.
“You could ask anyone—they would say I was very confident, very secure with who I was. I just thought I had a huge nose that I hated.”
The woman is sure that her nose job was the “best decision of her life.”
The 30-year-old Aiken has altered her TikTok into a forum for conversations on plastic surgery since having her rhinoplasty, uploading everything from before-and-after photos to recovery updates. By doing this, she has accidentally settled herself as a leading authority in cosmetic operations.
Supporters’ words of encouragement, questions from prospective rhinoplasty candidates, and, of course, criticism from those who object to her decision are all blended together in her comments area. Aiken, however, is still committed to her objective: openness.
“I documented it from day one. I posted a video when I was still in bed recovering,” she said.
“I just thought, ‘Wait, this might help other people.’ I wanted to document everything about the journey.”
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Devyn becomes staggered with emotion when she talks about her journey.
Aiken discovers her metamorphosis without hesitation. She often shares “before” pictures of herself from the first thirty years of her life, showing her appearance before to having her nose rebuilt at the end of last year. However, her pre-surgery nose was greatly peformed in the everyday footage she posted with her modest TikTok.
“I left all my videos up, my photos, and I’m just owning it. I got a nose job,” she says.
“I’m not going to erase who I was. And I love posting the before and after because it’s such a significant difference.”
Devyn is deeply thankful for this life opportunity.
Aiken understood that more and more how much attention her nose attracted in any situation as she grew older and went past the hurtful remarks of middle school. She couldn’t remove the impression that her most noticeable facial feature was always the first thing people saw, whether it was through muttered comments she wasn’t presumed to hear or subtle looks she received when shopping.
Devyn can say for sure that her big dream has come true, and it came with a little bonus.
“I just feel so happy every time I look in the mirror,” she shared.
“It’s literally life-changing … Now I can just shop in peace. I can go out in peace and I don’t have to worry if someone’s making a comment. I feel relieved.”
“I was a little nervous putting myself out there because I get nasty comments every day. Every time I log onto my social media, there’s a disgusting comment,” says the TikTok star.
“People just have a misconception that [with] plastic surgery, you’re like this fake bimbo. You’re making yourself into someone else. That’s not the case. I’m just enhancing and improving myself.”
