Caroline Stanbury Says She Shared Her Facelift Because It's 'Rubbish' When People Deny Cosmetic Procedures

• The Real Housewives of Dubai star Caroline Stanbury says she opted for a face lift after fillers and botox gave her ‘one crazy brow’
• Stanbury, 48, shared that she documented her facelift on social media because she didn’t want other women her age to compare their skin to her “unnaturally” smooth skin
• The reality star said people always ask about her scars, but she said they’ve healed well

Caroline Stanbury was looking at before and after photos of women who had facelifts when she noticed something.

“You get books [with pictures of] 80-year-old women who suddenly look like they’re 70 or 60. And that’s not me. I couldn’t identify with them,” the The Real Housewives of Dubai star tells PEOPLE.

“I wanted to find someone else my age,” she explained, “who did it, but she didn’t look terrible. She just wanted to look better, right?”

Caroline Stanbury and husband Sergio Carallo.

Caroline Stanbury/Instagram

That’s why Stanbury decided to document her facelift she had last November.

Stanbury told PEOPLE that she noticed fillers and Botox — which she said she started using at age 26 — weren’t achieving the look she wanted, explaining, “I had one crazy eyebrow. My lips got a little weird. My face only [got] rounder and rounder and bigger and bigger, because I just kept pumping filler into my jaw.”

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She melted away her filler and “I thought the cost of doing this every year is, you know, a facelift.”

Once, her friend, podcast host Catt Sadler, got a facelift and —”she looks amazing. She looks really refreshed”—Stanbury knew she was going to get one, too.

But she didn’t need to be convinced to share the process with the world.

“I have a podcast called Uncut and uncensored. So if I censor my life then, what’s the point?” Stanbury says. “Also, I participate in a reality TV show. This is my reality.”

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But beyond that, she says she felt a responsibility to women her own age.

“I have a very young husband,” she told Sergio Carralla, 29, adding “it’s not that he wanted me to do it, but these are the things that women go through.”

“I don’t want women to see me and think at 48, I look like this and they look like s—t. It is an unnatural thing.”

Sergio Carrallo and Caroline Stanbury pose 16 days after her facelift.

Sergio Carrallo/Instagram

The founder of the line of supplements Bust the Label said that she had a deep face lift and removed excess skin from her eyelids. However, she hasn’t raised her eyes, which she says has made a “huge difference” – and instead relies on Botox for her forehead.

“People’s necks are breaking. You can’t suddenly have this soft baby smooth skin and think it’s natural. You tell people that their skin looks like this, but theirs doesn’t. That something is wrong with them, which doesn’t make sense.”

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“It’s rubbish,” she says. “That’s not what skin looks like in your forties unless you’ve been pulled within an inch of your life by a very clever surgeon.”

Fans have praised Stanbury for her candor and honesty — and, she says, they always ask her the same question.

Caroline Stanbury shares her facelift scars.

Sergio Carallo

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“Everybody wants to know what the scars are like,” she tells PEOPLE — sharing it these days is doing well.

“The one behind the ear takes the longest to heal, but 1723795165 it’s just a little red light mark that can be covered with makeup,” she says, adding, “the body heals in an amazing way.”

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