In Kyiv, Ukraine, a woman named Anastasia Pokreshchuk is absolutely obsessed with getting hyaluronic acid cheek filler injections a few times a year. She’s so addicted to enhancing her facial features that she doesn’t always visit a doctor to get her injections. That’s right; sometimes, she does them herself. Anastasia takes a syringe filled with hyaluronic acid and injects her cheeks while looking in the mirror. And she not only “enhances” her cheeks.
“I regularly inject other parts of my face myself. I understand that they look weird for other people, but I don’t mind,” she says.
As you can imagine, many folks feel that her enhancement goes way over the top, but Anastasia says she feels much more confident than she did before the injections. And while she may have her critics, she also has the “support” of over 230,000 followers on Instagram who say they love her new look. Recently she made an appearance on the British TV talk show, “This Morning,” to explain why she enjoys getting fillers injected into her face. She also explained why she’s not worried when she injects herself and how she’s now getting more romantic attention today than before her transformation.
@DailyMirror This is so sad Someone tell her she is beautiful as she is & no need to do anything more Her friends & family ps help b4 it’s too late #AnastasiaPokreshchuk #beautyiswithin #Loveyourself https://t.co/4PFvCcuQXi
— Betty-May Johnson (@betsy4670) October 13, 2020
Anastasia says she did not like how she looked before her injections. While her mom thought she was “naturally beautiful” before her new look, Anastasia and her “friends” believed she “looked like a grey mouse” before her injections. While we have to disagree, the only person’s opinion about Anastasia’s appearance that really matters is her’s. And she says that she feels a lot more confident now.
“My nose was too big,” she says. “Now I have lips and cheeks and it looks okay.” The change in her lips is not as extreme as the change in her cheeks, but it is apparent that she’s also used fillers to make them plumper.
#Tendencias | Anastasia Pokreshchuk se puso sus primeros rellenos de labios a los 26 años y desde entonces no ha dejado de inyectarse la cara https://t.co/Hm0egcNqJc
— TN8 Nicaragua (@canaltn8) October 29, 2020
And what does her mom think about all this?
“My mum thinks this is a little bit crazy, but what can she do? No regrets, never any regrets, I’m happy with my cheeks,” shares Anastasia. In the end, it’s not her mother’s call to make, but we can only imagine it must be hard to see your child’s face change so much because they were so unhappy with how they looked before.
How about her doctor? What does he think about Anastasia giving herself injections?
Dr. Alex Karidis also appeared on The Morning Show with Anastasia; he said:
“There’s a reason why injectable fillers are administered by experienced practitioners, there’s a huge amount of skill and knowledge required,” he warned Anastasia. “There’s always complications that can occur even in experienced hands.”
This Ukrainian Instagram model was not being tongue in cheek when she said she wants even larger features.
Anastasia Pokreshchuk, 30, claims to have the “biggest cheeks in the world” but wants to pump them up with fillers even further.
“I need to refresh them again soon”
SICK! pic.twitter.com/4NimAOFsbd— Dr. Thomas Hoke (@hoke_thomas) October 14, 2020
However, despite her doctor’s warnings, the young lady said she’s not concerned.
She says she understands the dangers of injecting herself but isn’t worried because “I am learning online.”
Watch The Weird News of 30-year-old #Instagram model Anastasia Pokreshchuk who has the biggest cheeks https://t.co/K2bA04tWJ0 #fashionnova
— Unkle Aboki (@Unkleaboki) October 17, 2020
You see, she’s been following online tutorials, and as far as Anastasia’s concerned, that’s good enough for her.
But what about infections?
Anastasia says she’s not really too worried about that because she thinks she’s careful.
“An infection is not good, but everything is sterilized when I’m doing this,” she shares.
But even if she does get an infection, she’s still not concerned.
“[I won’t] die, no. There is an antidote,” she says.
Anastasia Pokreshchuk is making her rounds in the media again because she feels as though her cheeks are still too small despite being the owner of the world's largest cheeks.
Anastasia said she has lost count of how many facial procedures she has had. pic.twitter.com/oxZuuZnfTg
— The Cosmetic Lane (@TheCosmeticLane) October 15, 2020
However, her faith in modern medicine seems to be more based on her desire to continue getting injections than solid science, but hopefully, she’ll never have to have that faith tested. Anastasia says that she feels more attractive, and others think so as well.
“Of course, I have more attention with my filler, romantic also. But it’s not to do with my cheeks—it’s because I have become more confident,” she says.
And she claims that she now has the biggest cheeks in the world.
“You may think that they are too big but I think that they’re a little bit small, I need to refresh them again soon,” says Anastasia
That said, one can’t help but wonder if she’ll ever reach a point where she feels she has enough? According to Anastasia, she started getting injections in 2016.
Curiosidades… as maiores bochechas do mundo: as da digital influencer ucraniana Anastasia Pokreshchuk – https://t.co/A6j9YlDijs pic.twitter.com/B1eFDpAtpr
— JornalismoTL (@JornalismoTl) October 15, 2020
“I love them, I want them to look like this and I’m very happy,” she says.
But, at first, the fillers were not very noticeable, and by 2018, it didn’t look like she was on her way to having the world’s biggest cheeks.
There’s also a dark side to her newfound celebrity.
She says that folks online often tell her all kinds of ugly and downright vile things based on how she looks.
“I’ve had people tell me I am an ugly [expletive] and that I should kill myself but when I see it I just laugh it off and ignore it,” she says.
Anastasia also gets lip injections and in the corners of her mouth. She’s also had Botox on her forehead. And she says that so far she’s had so many procedures that she’s lost, count. And these procedures are much more than simple injections.
Esta #Modelo ucraniana tiene un récord singular: es la mujer con las mejillas más grandes del #Mundo y para ello se ha gastado una fortuna. https://t.co/Jh1rfJE0CL
— cuballama.com (@cuballama) October 29, 2020
She says that she’s had her jaw and chin reshaped, and from looking at some of her photos, it appears she’s recently had breast implants as well.
“I want to get a boob job because nature didn’t give me any breasts at all,” she said in the past.
You can watch Anastasia’s full “This Morning” interview in the video below.