Megan McKenna suffered body dysmorphia after looking at old photos of herself before she got lip fillers.
The distressing situation reached a head for the 27-year-old reality TV star when she auditioned on \'The X-Factor: Celebrity\' and Louis Walsh commented on her transformation.
Appearing on \'Loraine\' during Friday\'s show (25.10.19), Megan said: "Honestly, I look back at myself and think, \'Oh, my God, what was I thinking?\'
"I honestly think I had a massive dose of body dysmorphia.
"What I would like to say to my younger self is, \'You really need to accept the way you look.\'
"I know all this Instagram thing, looking online and wanting to look like other people, I was doing that massively. You lose yourself a bit. I feel I looked awful.
"My mum used to say to me every morning, \'Megan, your lips, they\'re so big...\'"
Megan first found fame on reality TV but has subsequently decided to pursue a career in the music business.
However, she worries her lip injections are overshadowing her musical aspirations.
She added: "Every single thing that I would do that would be linked to my music, every article would be about my lips. That really hurt me.
"I feel I\'d been working my whole life to be doing music, and everything is being taken away from that because of my big lips."
Meanwhile, the singer has received backlash for appearing on \'The X-Factor: Celebrity\' after already releasing a country album.
Megan - whose album is called \'Story Of Me\' - hoped her time on the ITV show would help boost her singing career.
She said: "Hopefully this can be my crossover point, where people stop thinking of me as a reality star and start thinking of me as a musician.
"I want people to see that I\'m not just about reality TV - music is what I\'ve always wanted to do."
