Vienna Girardi was all smiles Sunday as she made her first public appearance since her nose job last month.
The 25-year-old sported a noticeably smaller and straighter profile while posing for photogs with boyfriend and “Bachelorette” alum Kasey Kahl at this weekend’s Disney ABC press party in Beverly Hills.
“I look in the mirror, I notice the difference and I love it,” she gushed to TooFab. “That’s what really matters.”
The former “Bachelor” winner opted to go under the knife in July, admitting to Us Weekly that her nose had long been source of self-esteem issues.
“I always felt like I had this little face with, like, a Mr. Potato Head nose!” she told the mag. “It’s something I’ve wanted since I was 9 or 10.”
“In school,” she said, “they called me Pinocchio.” And things only got worse once she entered the public eye. “After ‘The Bachelor,’ bloggers called me ‘horse face.’ Evil names. I even went blonde because my dark hair made my nose look bigger!”
As for others thinking about cosmetic surgery, Girardi says to each her own.
“Sometimes our beauty is seen differently from within ourselves than what reflects in society’s mirror,” she told Us. “I went through life questioning myself in the mirror, but my reflection smiles now. “If it makes you feel better about yourself, then I say do it.”
Girardi’s ex, “Bachelor” Jake Pavelka, hadn’t yet seen his former fiancée’s new nose, but offered his support nonetheless.
“She looked fine before it,” he told the mag. “Whatever makes her happy.”
