If the beautiful White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood can be mocked on American TV for her charmingly natural British teeth, imagine the daily lives of people with far more extreme facial differences. Actually, there’s no need to imagine because a new Channel 4 series, Love My Face, introduces a whole host of people who society treats differently because of the way they look.
This four-part series features a clinic in Yorkshire “far away from the pricey clinics of Harley Street and Hollywood” (as narrator Lucy Beaumont puts it, as if introducing a fairy story). Here top surgeons and doctors are available, free of charge, to help people find ways of either adjusting their looks, or building the confidence to literally face the world.
We’re not told anything about how this clinic operates, how it’s funded and how many people it treats, other than it seems to be a charity set up by an admirable individual called Jono Lancaster. He was born with the genetic condition Treacher Collins Syndrome that impacts the development of facial tissues.
Mia L’s friend said her alopecia made her ‘look like an egg’ (Photo: Channel 4)First to be welcomed by a homely receptionist were Mia L, Mia R and Terry. Mia L’s severe alopecia had resulted in complete hair loss, which a “friend” remarked made her “look like an egg” (Mia has apparently since made some new, rather more supportive sounding friends).
Terry, a builder from Portsmouth suffered severe facial burns after being set alight by a petrol-can wielding schizophrenic uncle, while barista and skateboarder Mia R (who was categorised as male at birth) wants some facial feminisation surgery to soften a strong jawline as part of her transitioning process. They each have an introductory chat with Lancaster before meeting some impressively lettered medical specialists.
And then we fast forward 18 months as the trio make their way back to Yorkshire for the big reveal – just like the before and after shots on Interior Design Masters. Though Terry likens this part of the process to Stars in Their Eyes (“this evening, Matthew… Terry has turned up”, as he amusingly put it), his transformation was indeed astonishing.
Terry likens the experience of the clinic to Stars In Their Eyes (Photo: Channel 4)Less successful, initial appearance-wise at least, was Mia L, whose hair has started to regrow only in patches after she had to miss some treatments for unspecified personal reasons. Her self-confidence however is utterly transformed.
Mia R meanwhile looks a million dollars, and indeed I can’t but help but ask how much the services of “oral, maxillofacial and aesthetic” surgeon Natasha Berridge BSc (Hons), BDS, BM, MFDS (Eng), MRCS (Eng), MSc, FRCS (OMFS), would cost on the open market. An underlying message here is the paucity of availability on the NHS for these sorts of treatment.
But this isn’t Surgeons: At the Edge of Life or Saving Lives in Cardiff. In fact, Love My Face is more similar to another recent Channel 4 docuseries, The Fear Clinic: Face Your Phobia, where the backstory to that Amsterdam clinic took a very distant second place to the patients’ “journeys”.
Mia R’s facial feminisation surgery was a success (Photo: Channel 4)This one was precision tooled to bother the tear ducts, complete with tinkly piano soundtrack and the sort of warm interactions between staff members that you find on For the Love of Dogs with Alison Hammond.
I would have liked to see more of the role-playing tactics suggested by Lancaster – how they might arm themselves with ready replies when faced with insensitive and intrusive questioning. After all, this was about confidence building as much as facial reconstruction; the invitation to Love My Face not so much directed at viewers as at the clinic’s patients.
Or, as Terry puts it: “I have to love myself before anyone else is going to accept me.”
‘Love My Face’ continues next Thursday at 10pm on Channel 4
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