Bec Judd — mother-of-four, media personality, speech pathologist and all-round superwoman — is in hiding after undergoing an extreme beauty treatment.
Opening up on The 3pm Pick Up with Monty Diamond, the 34-year-old detailed her experience with the ‘fraxel treatment’ — a laser resurfacing treatment that many dermatologists use to combat anything from acne scars to age spots and wrinkles.
The costly treatment does, however, have a downside: it usually requires around three to four days of downtime, in which the skin may experience with swelling, redness and peeling.
Her co-host likened her post-treatment appearance to having “been blasted with a torch of fire.”
And, horrifyingly, the beloved television presenter agreed with the awful description.
“That’s kind of what it felt like! So this is the thing, you go in and you get numbing cream put on for an hour and it’s this medical grade numbing cream,” she explained.
“You can’t feel anything when you touch it with your fingers. But then they kind of torch you with this laser and you can really feel it then.”
She added: “So it was still really hot and uncomfortable but tolerable.”
Bec explained that her dermatologist had begged her to go under the laser for years, but she wasn’t able to due to pregnancy.
“You know that saying, you’ve got a face for radio? That is me!” she continued.
“There’s no chance of this face, this noggin, on my Instagram alright?”
The lifestyle blogger recently confessed that her daughter is beginning to become obsessed with something rather odd for her age – her looks.
“All of a sudden [Billie] has started caring about her appearance so much. It’s really scary,” she began.
“I don’t know where it’s come from because at home, I wear active wear pretty much, sneakers, chuck my hair up and barely put on any make-up.”
Bec, who shares Oscar, six, Billie, three, and twins Tom and Darcy, 10 months, with AFL star Chris Judd, went onto explain how her daughter “hates” her curly hair to the point where she “screams in the mirror”.
“She’s got this brush and she’s started standing in front of the mirror and she brushes and brushes her hair,” she explains.
“She’s got this curly hair, so it… springs back up. And she screams at the mirror… She’s just furious.”
“I said ‘Billie what are you doing, just let it go babe you’ve got curly hair’ and she says ‘Mummy, I don’t like my hair I want straight hair like you’.”
Billie’s behaviour, Bec says, has made her and her husband’s focus shift to praising qualities far more important than physical appearance.
“It really makes Chris and I think OK, we’ve got to put so much emphasis on being a kind human and be strong and being smart.”
“Girls, they are tricky!”
