It’s not often that I’m taken aback on the internet, but I have to admit these pictures of 25-year-old Bulgarian lady Andrea Ivanova gave me a bit of a fright.

Just look at these lips:

Now, I don’t want to say that Andrea looks “freakish” or “ridiculous” or “terrifying to children”, but I will say that it looks like she’s been hanging around with our good friend Macaulay Culkin in My Girl and been viciously attacked by a swarm of bees in the woods. But I guess that’s always going to be the case when you spend £20,000 on 43 lip filler procedures.

Still, Andrea insists she’s happy with her lips, and that’s all that matters. Although she does admit that she’s finding it difficult to find love (via Daily Star):

I am a girl with a different and an extravagant appearance and this is strange for many men.

Of course there are many men who like me very much, but there are also those who do not like me.

They think that I am strange and crazy.

Men write me private messages on social networks and offer me dates, money, trips to their countries, which is great.

It makes me happy that there are people who like me and want my company and attention.

However, I will be happier to meet the love of my life but I don’t know when it will happen.

Andrea’s dream is to go on a show like The Bachelor in which a host of men compete for her affections, though she concedes that even that might not be enough to find the man of her dreams:

I don’t know if he will like girls like me with artificial beauty.

He may turn out to be a connoisseur of natural beauty and that’s okay as everyone likes different things.

But I am keen to surprise him with my good and kind behaviour and my good manners.

This will also be a personal experiment to see if a bachelor would like a girl like me with ‘enhancements’.

And there I was thinking this was going to be a tale of buyer’s remorse – a warning to other young girls out there not go overboard with the lip fillers if you want to find the man of your dreams. I’m not sure how these fillers work exactly, but at 25, I’m sure there’s a way for Andrea to get rid of them all and return to her natural form:

That’s a perfectly nice-looking young lady! Although I guess if your goal in life is to be known as the woman with the biggest lips in the world, sacrificing your natural beauty is just something you have to go through with. Fair enough really. Good luck to Andrea on her search for love!

P.S. Could have saved herself a pretty penny if she’d just used the Kylie Jenner shot glass technique. Oh well.