Terry Prone has shared the catastrophic injuries that she has sustained after being involved in a horrible car crash in her 30s.
The PR guru was involved in this crash, which left her face disfigured and her body "broken".
"Every single bit of me was broken, except my right arm. Every bit of me - legs, face, arms, everything, ribs. Ribs are so painful when they are broken", Prone said of the crash.
Speaking to Fergus Finley on the Grey Matters podcast, the Clinical Communications boss was awarded compensation for this accident, and chose to get cosmetic surgery on her face, which left her "lobsided".
She explained: "Afterwards - too long afterwards - I got compensation and I thought, "I need to go and get something done about my face" because my face was then completely lobsided. It still doesn't work right, but I have to live with that".
Terry Prone went on to say that she soon noticed a striking hypocrisy when she later chose to have a brow lift to reduce forehead wrinkles, while people approved of reconstructive surgery after trauma.
Prone said: "The issue is that I went and I had what is now called cosmetic surgery, and it tilted my face a bit better. I had an implant put into one cheek that had fallen in... and what I discovered was that whenever I said to people I had plastic surgery because of a car crash..."
'Then later on when I looked at the end results, I thought wow, "I might have a brow lift" so that I wouldn't have train tracks wrinkles going across my forehead, nobody approved of that".
She asked: "People disapprove of you having surgery. What's wrong with vanity? And what's wrong with older vanity?'".
Prone then went on to add that Botox between her eyebrows had transformed workplace relationships, not through a sense of vanity, but because her employees were "no longer frightened of me, because they always had assumed that I was cross with them, because I was always frowning".
She also explained how filler around the mouth can stop her face from looking "so sour" or "so angry", which can have a positive impact on professional relationships.
