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Skye Wheatley just got candid about her surgeries. She told us the exact price tag.

Celebrities and influencers are opening up about their cosmetic procedures like never before.

First, we had Kylie Jenner candidly detailing the specific details boob job — from the name of her surgeon to the exact measurement of her implant.

Then reality star Kristin Cavallari admitted on a podcast that she had "her boobs done", not once, but twice.

Now, I'm A Celebrity! winner Skye Wheatley has joined the trend, sharing exactly how much she's spent on cosmetic enhancements over the years.

Speaking on her new Nova podcast Skye & Callum with co-host Callum Hole, the 31-year-old estimated she's forked out close to half a million dollars on her face, if you include both plastic surgery and injectables.

"Honestly, I would say all up maybe $200,000," she began, referring to plastic surgeries.

But after factoring in the cumulative cost of laser treatments, Botox ($300 to $400 per session), fillers (about $500 per session), and a long list of other tweaks, the total ballooned.

"If we're going off my life, I'm going to say $500,000," Skye said.

Skye then walked listeners through every procedure, with Callum joking a book listing them all "would be like a bible".

That list began with a breast augmentation surgery in Thailand after her Big Brother stint in 2014 — a procedure that she says nearly ended with her having "three boobs".

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Since then, she's had a nose job and a breast revision after the birth of her two sons.

She's also undergone blepharoplasty, also known as eyelid surgery that removes excess skin, and the now-infamous fox-eye canthoplasty, which took her to Türkiye to see a surgeon she was recommended.

"It was very nerve-wracking," Skye said.

"I woke up from surgery fully blind. I couldn't see. The nurses would come in speaking their language and I'm trying to talk to them and we could not understand each other. No English."

Skye was bedridden for several days.

"I couldn't walk, couldn't move, fully blind. I needed to vomit, and I was screaming help," she said, adding she was grateful a friend was there to assist her.

The recovery, she noted, can take up to a year.

Skye Wheatley.Skye's a big advocate for being transparent about her cosmetic work. Image: Instagram/skye.wheatley.

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Skye is clearly not the only celebrity getting honest. She's just one in a larger trend of popular faces breaking the taboo around cosmetic surgery.

On one level, that transparency can help dismantle the impossible beauty standards we are fed constantly in magazines and on our Instagram feeds.

It's a candidness that works to remind us of one big fact: that picture-perfect faces often come at a serious cost.

That's the message Skye hopes to share.

"I would hate for my boys to think they need to change what they look like," she said.

"I know that it's a serious issue. I've been open and honest about struggling with how I look and I always have."

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She added: "The only thing that upsets me is when people are like, 'I don't want my daughter to follow you now, it's not a good look.'"

"I totally understand where they're coming from, but I also want to be completely transparent, open and honest about what I'm having done because I don't want young girls to look at other people online and think, 'Wow, they're so f***ing perfect. Why or how?'

"Well, this is the reason, babe. "I wasn't born like this and I'm not going to get online and fake it."

But it's also a double-edged sword.

Sharing these details so casually risks making invasive, often risky procedures feel like just another 'self-care routine'.

And when the details are as specific as those shared by Kylie Jenner, it creates a sinister blueprint young girls could take to a plastic surgeon to carbon copy.

And for girls and young women already bombarded with messages that they're never quite good enough as they are, this kind of disclosure can subtly reinforce the idea that the path to self-worth lies under a surgeon's knife.

Mamamia has contacted Skye for additional comment.

Feature image: Instagram/skye.wheatley.

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