Just days after revealing she recently had a face lift that made her look like she’d ‘been in a car crash,’ her husband Sergio Carrallo shared a new video chronicling her healing and recovery process.
The 29-year-old Carrallo and 47-year-old Stanbury jointly shared a new video on Thursday, revealing what the Real Housewives of Dubai star and good friend of Prince Andrew looked like after the face lift.
The former Real Madrid star broke down in tears in the video, while also recording his reaction when seeing her for the first time.
‘This was probably one of the hardest moments of my life. Seeing the person that you love with all your heart suffering and in pain how she was .. it was very hard,’ Carrallo said in the caption of his Instagram post.
‘As a husband I will always support her and be here for her and as much as I was against it, she really wanted to do it,’ he added.
Face lift: Just days after revealing she recently had a face lift that made her look like she’d ‘been in a car crash,’ her husband Sergio Carrallo shared a new video chronicling her healing and recovery process
New video: The 29-year-old Carrallo and 47-year-old Stanbury jointly shared a new video on Thursday, revealing what the Ladies of London star looked like after the face lift
‘So, I was there for her, supporting and helping her day to day. I am very proud of you and I just seeing how happy you are with the result, it makes me very happy. You look absolutely beautiful @carolinestanbury the only problem, now … I am the oldest in the relationship!!’ Carrallo joked.
He concluded by thanking Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Steve S. Kim, ‘for taking the best care of my wife. Amazing job!’
The video begins with Carrallo waiting in the car the day of the surgery, as he reveals she’s been under the knife for four hours, adding in the video caption they, ‘didn’t allow me to go inside with her,’ adding he was, ‘just waiting, very stressed.’
He added in the video that he got her flowers, a card and her, ‘favorite Hailey Bieber smoothie’ from Erewhon.
The next part of the video shows a view of him from his phone as he walked into the recovery room, showing his reaction to seeing her after the face lift.
He stated in the video caption, ‘I didn’t realize I left the phone recording the first time I saw her after the surgery.
Sergio’s walks into the room and says, ‘Oh my God… how are you, honey?’ but he backs away from the room, captioning the video, ‘I was shocked.. the hardest thing to see.’
Carrallo then shares video from their car where he fights back tears as he says, ‘I love her so much,’ which is captioned, ‘One of the hardest moments of my life.’
Didn’t realize: He stated in the video caption, ‘I didn’t realize I left the phone recording the first time I saw her after the surgery
Shocked: Sergio’s walks into the room and says, ‘Oh my God… how are you, honey?’ but he backs away from the room, captioning the video, ‘I was shocked.. the hardest thing to see’
Hardest: Carrallo then shares video from their car where he fights back tears as he says, ‘I love her so much,’ which is captioned, ‘One of the hardest moments of my life’
He keeps fighting back tears and says, ‘It’s OK,’ as Caroline gives a brief thumbs up to the camera.
He takes another video from Day 1, showing them walking around as Caroline has a bandage still wrapped around her head as Sergio jokes, ‘It’s probably like a fashion show around here,’ adding she is, ‘looking amazing, I love you honey.’
Sergio then shared a video from Day 2, adding, ‘I thought yesterday was bad but today is actually very bad.
He added her eyes are swolen and she ‘cannot really open her eyes,’ adding, ‘hopefully tomorrow will be better, but this is crazy.’
They show Caroline on Day 4, in much better spirits though she admits she still looks like, ‘a pumpkin patchwork doll’ but she can move her face now.
The video shows Day 5, revealing the ‘small stitches’ coming out, as they show her out after Day 5, showing significant improvement.
Sergio jokes, ‘So my wife looks like Porcelanosa,’ adding in the caption, ‘Her skin looks like a 25 years old.’
Caroline laughs and says, ‘He said my skin is too smooth,’ as Sergio adds, ‘It’s way too smooth, honey. I’m the oldest in the relationship now.
Fashion show: He takes another video from Day 1, showing them walking around as Caroline has a bandage still wrapped around her head as Sergio jokes, ‘It’s probably like a fashion show around here,’ adding she is, ‘looking amazing, I love you honey’
Very bad: Sergio then shared a video from Day 2, adding, ‘I thought yesterday was bad but today is actually very bad
Day 4: They show Caroline on Day 4, in much better spirits though she admits she still looks like, ‘a pumpkin patchwork doll’ but she can move her face now
Out: They show the staples coming out, as she admits in the car later, ‘it’s a little tight, but everything is out
Done: They show the staples coming out, as she admits in the car later, ‘it’s a little tight, but everything is out
They cut to Day 10, with Caroline showing even more improvement, as she adds the staples come out the next day and she’s, ‘very very nervous.’
She was wearing a baseball hat with her hair down over her cheekbones, but she lifts her hair up and it shows bruising and other marks.
‘It still looks pretty good. We’ve been through like crazy stuff,’ Sergio begins, as Caroline adds, ‘And now I’m back,’ as Sergio adds, ‘Now she is starting to look normal.’
They show the staples coming out, as she admits in the car later, ‘it’s a little tight, but everything is out,’ as Sergio says he’s ‘so proud of her’ and they went through’ some crazy stuff.’
They also share a video with Dr. Kim showing all the stitches are out as the next video shows Sergio saying, ‘The face is done,’ though Caroline adds the face is, ‘a little stiff.’
The final video features Sergio saying, ‘My wife is back to being her,’ as they take a walk.
In a new podcast, Stanbury described her experience, saying: ‘I decided to have a face-lift with no information whatsoever. I skipped into that surgery like I was having a mole removed. This is LA – so, unlike other places where you’re sort of taken to hospital and feel like you’re having a medical experience, here you’re taken to a back room of an office just as if you’re having a filler. They put you to sleep and remove your face.
Love: Caroline with her husband Sergio earlier this year before the surgery
‘I looked like I’d been in a car crash and the car definitely didn’t win.’
Stanbury, who has three children, says of the ordeal with the unnamed doctor: ‘He managed to cut off three inches on my neck and then the full width of my ear from my face. The shape of my face is completely wrong for a human: the top half is wider than the bottom half, and my neck is too thick. I have stitches at the front and back of my ear and on my eyelids.’
Explaining why she went under the knife, she said: ‘I wanted to look exactly like me but fresh. I did my upper lip, my eyelids, where they take off the excess skin because I’m 47. I did lower neck, and my neck is so tight right now. I really thought it was a half face-lift and I only had one appointment and paid the money.’
She says of the results: ‘There is no sign of my face in that face – which is petrifying. I wanted to sue my doctor because when you slightly look at your face everything is in the wrong place. Obviously after surgery, things swell differently, on each side, nothing looks even, and my neck doesn’t move so it’s like a tree trunk.’