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Why it's so hard to crack a face filler addiction: Ageing gracefully was too much to bear for KATE SPICER who's fallen off the wagon after four years cold turkey By Kate Spicer Published: 12:12 EDT, 24 June 2024 | Updated: 12:12 EDT, 24 June 2024 e-mail 6 View comments It was a Tuesday when my lunch date asked if I'd like some: 'Not for me,' I said. 'I don't do that stuff anymore.' But as my mouth said no, the word yes bounced around my brain.

I tried to ignore it. I was done with the needles and syringes, that was behind me. Come Friday, though, it was late afternoon and I'd had a glass of wine after work.



Inhibitions slightly loosened, I sent him a text, 'Actually, yes. But just a tiny bit.' We arranged to meet the next day at his hotel.

'Where are you off to?' asked my boyfriend. 'I've got to do a thing. For work,' I said vaguely.

My erstwhile lunch companion had a good-sized room in one of those small, chic hotels that smell of discretion, money and fresh flowers. Business was obviously good. Kate Spicer did not use Botox and filler for four years but has never been able to stop altogether There, after brief niceties, he looked at my face in natural light and drew on it with a soft wax pencil.

'I will treat your cheek, the mid-face, the nasolabial fold, the marionette zone, the chin and your jawline,' he said. Boom. Moments later the syringe hovered over my face and with one little prick of the needle, I fell off the wagon.

I have sworn off Botox and filler several times .

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