Season 1

The team investigate the realities of the the boob job, the nation's most popular cosmetic procedure.

Christian meets Rachel, who tells the cautionary tale of a breast op that went very wrong. Rachel awoke after her breast lift and augmentation operation to find one breast higher than the other. She was told that everything was fine and the breast shape would improve in time. Six months later there was no improvement as the implants still sat high on her chest, with her breast tissue left drooping below. Can revision surgery from The Ugly Face of Beauty's team of surgeons finally give her the breasts she wanted?

Journalist Polly Hudson heads to a cosmetic clinic in Spain to find out why Brits travel abroad to go under the knife. She meets Natalie Rooney, 19-year-old cousin of Wayne Rooney, who wants the biggest boobs in Britain. But Natalie controversially decides that she also wants some liposuction, despite barely having any fat on her size 8 frame. Regardless of warnings from the surgeon and pleas from Polly she is determined to go ahead.

Meanwhile, writer Andrea Thompson goes undercover on Harley St to test out just how far cosmetic surgery clinics will go with the hard sell, special offers and sales patter to get her to sign up for a breast augmentation. As an experiment the show deploys similar techniques on unsuspecting members of the public at a fake walk-in clinic in Southend. Just how willing are people to sign up for surgery when presented with a too-good-to-be-true package? The results are shocking...

This time the team investigate the tummy tuck, one of the most sought after procedures both for men and women.

Women who have experienced significant weight loss, or mums who want to get their pre-baby bodies back often resort to the tummy tuck. Mother-of-two Kelly tells her story of how a tummy tuck and liposuction performed in Germany left her with a life threatening infection that came close to killing her. Can the Ugly Face of Beauty's team of expert surgeons help?

Meanwhile Dr Christian presents teens at a London secondary school with the reality of a tummy tuck gone wrong, and invites them to suggest surgical procedures that might be contemplated for a size 10 woman.

Dr Christian also meets Nanette, who suffered at the hands of a Belgian surgeon when he left her with a botched breast enlargement. Christian tracks down the man responsible to get answers for Nanette.

And over in Spain, journalist Polly Hudson meets Essex wife Hayley who has travelled to the Spanish clinic to have her second breast enlargement. With her husband by her side, Hayley is very relaxed about the surgery, so relaxed in fact she decides to have her nipples removed and recreated too.

The team look at one of the most invasive cosmetic procedure of all: the facelift.

Mother of six Kim signed up for a half facelift in 2007 in a bid to reverse the wear and tear on her 52-year-old face. But after waking up to find staples in her forehead, Kim was told that her surgeon had made the decision to perform a full facelift - whilst she was under the anaesthetic. Ever-faithful, Kim went home happy with what she thought was an even better deal, but a few days later her husband noticed that one of her eyebrows wasn't moving, and it emerged that a nerve in the right-hand side of her face had been damaged. Kim's surgeon has since tried to correct her partial paralysis and failed - will Dr Peter Arnstein be able to restore symmetry to Kim's lopsided face?

Meanwhile, unhappy AA cup Julie always wanted bigger breasts so once she'd saved up she went in search for the perfect boobs. After months of research, just six days after her first consultation she went under the knife, but wasn't pleased with the results. During her revision surgery her silicone implants were replaced by cheap PIP ones - now all but banned in the UK. Two years and three surgeries later Julie is hoping Dr Douglas McGeorge will be able to sort out the 'double bubbles' where her implants bulge out from underneath her breast muscle.

Dr Christian makes it his mission to get the pupils of Quintin Kynaston Secondary School to re-consider their attitudes towards cosmetic surgery. Tonight, he talks face lifts, hoping that by showing them how and why skin ages, they'll discover that there's plenty they can do to take better care of their skin and avoid the need for surgery.

And over in Marbella, journalist Polly Hudson joins yummy mummy Sarah on a mission to restore her C cup boobs to their former E cup glory. But after being warned of the 5% chance of a haematoma- blood pooling where the surgery was performed - Sarah unluckily becomes one of those statistics and has to have drains inserted

In the final episode of The Ugly Face of Beauty, Dr Christian follows the story of Marion, and the horror that entailed when she travelled to Belgium for a cheap tummy tuck. After being promised the stomach of Britney Spears, Marion was operated on and then turfed out of the hospital just hours later. She was left to bleeding in a hotel down the road when her wound broke open, the resulting months of hospital treatment to deal with the infection have now left her with a huge rock hard scar, over which hangs the original apron belly that she wanted to get rid of.

Surgeon Dr Peter Arnstein goes to enormous lengths to remove the scar and return Marion to her normal life- but can it be done?

Elsewhere, journalist Andrea Thompson takes an inside look at the unregulated world of fillers, and sees just how far people will go to secure a sign-up when she is cornered at a glamorous cosmetic surgery open evening.

Meanwhile Dr Christian meets two ladies who had permanent fillers injected without checking to see if they were approved - see the results for yourself in this shocking series finale.