Gemma Collins is thrilled to have shed the pounds over the past few years, but the TV personality is disappointed with the unwelcome side effects to her Mounjaro weight-loss jabs. The 44-year-old revealed she’d lost more than two stone since she started on the NHS-approved weight-loss medication.

But last week, the former TOWIE star shared her concerns that she’d started “looking older” since she started taking the jabs since late last year. She revealed to her 2.2million followers on Instagram, she said: “I really don’t know what’s happened to me, I really don’t. It’s just come on me overnight. But it has been a year since I’ve had any little tweakments.”

She revealed that the lines around her eyes had gone “next level”, before questioning if the changes might be linked to her weight loss. Gemma explained: “I don’t know if it’s since I’ve been losing weight. I sure haven’t got ‘Ozempic face’ yet, but it would be the dream right now.

“I’ve always had a fuller face, as you know. I do like expression around my eyes. I want to look natural still. But this just isn’t right. What has happened? I am 44 but this is taking it to levels that I never, ever imagined it’d get to.”

The term ‘Ozempic-face’ is a term used to describe a hollow or gaunt look usually caused by rapid weight loss. A source close to the TV personality, who is engaged to business Rami Hawash, made light of her “next level” lines, she was genuinely shocked by the dramatic change.

They also claimed that while she’s still taking the jabs, she’s managed to make healthy lifestyle changes too. The insider went on: “She’s eating really healthily and has broken some of the bad habits with food.

"It was a bit of a shock to her to really see the effect the weight loss has had on her face. She doesn’t want to suddenly look older than she is, which is why she’s sorting it and being honest about it.

“Gemma’s always been really open and honest about her relationship with her body and she’s been through some really horrible times with it, but that’s all in her past now. The wrinkle tweakments are all part of her wanting to feel and look good.

"She knows there’s no point losing all the weight and just being unhappy, so she’ll happily make little changes to keep herself feeling her best.”

Gemma previously said she was a size 26 at her heaviest and is hoping to fit into a size 16 by summer, telling The Sun that she was also hoping to “give birth to twins next year” if she can conceive at a healthy weight.

She also admitted that she once secretly went under the knife to have a gastric balloon fitted, but begged doctors to remove it after experiencing crippling pain. She confessed: “It was scary. I should never have done it – I thought I was going to die.”

Earlier this year, she announced she had signed up with Yazen, a company that provides a treatment plan of weight loss jabs, to put an end to her years of yo-yo dieting.

She has often spoken public about her struggles with weight, which she admitted at once point had left her feeling suicidal and stuck in a "toxic dieting chain."

Speaking at the time, she said: "I will finally be free. I will finally be able to live my best life and just be free from all the upset and stress and turmoil that comes with constantly trying to lose excess weight."