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12/17/03 - Mother gives teenager nose job Christmas present - Ananova.com

A 17-year-old girl has been given a nose job as an early Christmas present from her mother.

Natalie Miller's mother used an inheritance to pay for the £4,000 cosmetic surgery despite initially objecting, because her daughter was so self-conscious about the way she looked, reports the new issue of Closer magazine.

Natalie, from east London, said: "I felt too unattractive to be anyone's girlfriend. I tried to do everything to disguise my nose, from make-up to wearing my hair down."

Her mother, Clare, 47, said the money was well spent despite her initial worries.

"For a year she wouldn't go out and just stayed indoors so I agreed," she has told Closer magazine.

The student, who had the two-hour operation at the St John and St Elizabeth Hospital in London in November, said the problems started when she was 13 and a boy called her "big nose".

"From then on my nose made me unhappy and paranoid."

She dreamed of having cosmetic surgery but her mother, a carer, was shocked.

"There were rows and tears as I became more miserable," said Natalie, who is about to start a college beauty course.

"Finally, after seeing how upset it was making me, she changed her mind."

Natalie said she was not nervous about the operation, which removed a bump by shaving the nose, but excited about getting her new nose.

"When I had the plaster cast off, it looked wonderful and I started laughing and crying at the same time," she said.