Geordie Shore’s Charlotte admits she chose surgery over counselling

It all kicked off on Loose Women today when Geordie Shore's Charlotte came under attack for the speed with which she chose to go under the knife.

The reality star, who has undergone extensive surgery since she first appeared on our screens in 2011, was forced to explain her actions when confronted by broadcaster Janet Street Porter.

Stunned that the 25-year-old opted for cosmetic surgery in order to feel confident in her own skin, Janet questioned: "When you imagined you had a big lump in your nose, that you imagined that no one would talk to you and you would be a social cripple, why couldn't you have had counselling?"

"Why didn't you seek some kind of therapy to live with the face you had rather than moving it all around five inches?" she asked a rarely speechless Charlotte.

Looking somewhat flummoxed, Charlotte told Janet that there was "too much to think about it" and then admitted that in a way she did attempt to talk through her emotions prior to surgery.

"I did. I mean, I feel like I had that counselling off my mam every day before I went to do it and it didn't really work," she told her co-panelists.

Charlotte insisted that she stood by her decision to have a nose job and lip fillers, saying: "I can understand your point completely but it was my decision at the end of the day."

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