Geordie Shore star Vicky Pattison has revealed how years of having her hair styled for television and red carpet events has left her with bald patches – and she’s so worried they’ll be visible on her wedding day that she’s undergone a radical cosmetic procedure to try and fix it.
The 30-year-old visited celebrity doctor Dr Tijion Esho, who’s based in London’s Harley Street and is a regular on Channel 4’s Body Fixers, to try and combat the thinning with a new treatment that involves stimulating hair follicles with her own blood.
Vicky, who is due to marry her fiance John Noble next summer, admitted she is keen to get her hair looking lustrous before their wedding, and opted for the radical platelet-rich plasma (PRP) treatment – despite her fear of needles.
Vicky Pattison, 30, has revealed she’s suffering from bald patches, and is so worried about it that she has had her own blood injected back into her scalp in a bid to encourage hair growth (seen visiting celebrity doctor Dr Esho in London’s Harley Street in a video posted to YouTube)
Dr Esho is then seen explaining that he will use a needle to squirt the blood cells across her scalp before using a derma pen to microneedle it in
Vicky Pattison and John Noble seen at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, on 08 Jul 2017. They are due to get married next year and announced their engagement last summer, 10 years after first meeting.
The procedure is a three-step medical treatment, in which a patient’s blood is drawn, processed, and then injected into the scalp to stimulate an increase in hair cells.
Speaking about her bald patches and hair thinning in a video posted to Dr Esho’s YouTube account, Vicky admitted: ‘I’ve become increasingly concerned about my hair.
It’s been under a lot of pressure from all the hair extensions and styling and I’ve started to suffer from traction alopecia – basically bald patches and thinning.
‘I’m only 30 and it can only get worse from here so I’m hoping treatment will work (ahead of my wedding).’
Explaining his treatment to a nervous looking Vicky, Dr Esho says: ‘We will begin by taking a blood extract.
‘This will then be processed with the platelet-rich plasma – a yellow serum – being taken from it and injected into your scalp with a micro-needle’.
As a terrified Vicky asks whether it can just be ‘rubbed in’, Dr Esho explains: ‘It can’t as by microneedling it causes a small micro injury which encourages blood vessels to grow in that particular area. This will hopefully encourage the growth of hair’.
Continuing to explain the treatment, Dr Esho highlighted that it may not work for everybody.
She has opted for PRP treatment- despite her fear of needles. The process, ‘platelet-rich plasma’, is a three-step medical treatment, in which a patient’s blood is drawn, processed, and then injected into the scalp to stimulate an increase in cells.
Vicky then added: ‘So can we just clarify – we’re going to take my blood, mix it up, then put it back in my head? So I am technically a vampire and a cannibal?’.
Dr Esho replied: ‘Your own body is healing itself!’, to which Vicky replied: ‘I’m like a starfish!’
Vicky can then be heard screaming dramatically as Dr Esho takes blood from her arm, before processing it.
He then holds up Vicky’s blood which has been separated into three sections, with the all-important PRP seen at the top.
He is then seen explaining that he will use a needle to squirt it across her scalp before using a derma pen to microneedle it in.
Vicky can then be heard screaming dramatically as Dr Esho takes blood from her arm, before processing it. Her impressive engagement ring from John is seen in the shot as she tries to relax on the chair.
In the video Dr Esho can be seen holding up Vicky’s processed blood which has been separated into three sections, with the all-important PRP seen at the top- ready to inject back into her scalp
As a terrified Vicky (left) asks whether her blood cells can just be ‘rubbed in’, Dr Esho (seen right) explains: ‘It can’t as by microneedling it causes a small micro injury which encourages blood vessels to grow in that particular area. This will hopefully encourage the growth of hair’.
Looking lovely! Vicky’s lustrous chestnut hair in a recent post on her Instagram account
Former Geordie Shore star Vicky Pattison, who is due to marry fiance John Noble next summer (both seen above), admitted she is keen to get her hair back into shape before their wedding in 2019
Bringing the treatment to the end and joking about Vicky’s screams, she responded: ‘I thought I was pretty brave actually! It wasn’t that painful, just slight discomfort and I can’t wait to see how my hair looks’.
Vicky is set to marry John Noble in Newcastle during the summer of 2019, after he popped last July- a decade after they first met as friends.
And Vicky’s nuptials won’t be a star-studded affair as she admitted her Geordie Shore castmates haven’t made the guestlist because she only wants the people she is ‘closest to’ in attendance.
During an exclusive interview with Daily Mail Australia, the television personality revealed the couple could have their first baby as early as 2020.
‘We range from getting that (contraceptive implant) out the day before the wedding and have a wedding night baby, to a more measured approach of going on our honeymoon and travel a bit and get it out and see what will happen,’ she said.