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A CONTENT creator has revealed that she has spent £80,000 on surgery to get the ultimate, curvaceous figure.
But now, Zmeena Orr is debating getting a bum reduction, as she claimed that having such a large derrière can often be a big inconvenience.
Zmeena, who used to be an exotic dancer, explained that having a large booty can be a struggle, as she even needs help getting dressed because of it.
Revealing all to Truly, Zmeena admitted that she has undergone multiple surgeries to achieve her dream body – and it’s led to her making some serious cash.
The star, who has 4.3 million followers on Instagram, confessed: “I’ve spent over $100,000 [£79,400] on my curvy body.
“I love my curvaceous body but I’m honestly thinking about downsizing now.
“I’m considering getting a butt reduction because I literally have to get help to put my outfits on sometimes, aka to pull my pants up because my booty is so huge.
“I love it, but sometimes it can be a little bit of a struggle.”
The real estate investor, who grew up in The Bronx in New York, explained that she is often judged for her figure and high income, but she won’t let anyone get her down.
She added: “I always get a lot of hate, despite what others may think, I deserve it all.”
Zmeena shared that big bums became a trend and so she decided to go under the knife so she could partake.
She continued: “It was starting to become a trend growing up – huge hips, big butt, small, tiny waist.
“My mother used to call it the pear shape and she just idolised it and it really made me feel like I love that, I want that for myself.”
It was in her dancing days when she first had surgery, as she admitted: “I used to be an exotic entertainer and I felt like the girls around me, their bodies were super curvaceous, and I just couldn’t compete. I wanted to make bucks like them so I got surgery.”
But her bum isn’t the only thing she’s had done, as she acknowledged: “I’ve had my butt done over three times, I’ve had lipo about three times, my breasts done three times – I think three is my number.
I literally have to get help to put my outfits on sometimes, aka to pull my pants up because my booty is so huge
Zmeena Orr
“I also had fillers done, I’ve had my lips done. I love my lips.
“I’ve had jawline contouring done before – they kind of botched me and made me look kinda messed up, so right now I’m in the process of dissolving the rest of my fillers.
“Once I invested in my body and did everything I wanted to do to fix myself, my confidence went up and I was making fast money. I was able to pay to invest in my body.
Buttock enlargement surgery – known as a Brazilian bum-lift (BBL) – is used to make the bum look bigger, rounded and lifted.
Surgeons transfer fat, inject filler or insert silicone-filled implants.
It is the fastest growing cosmetic procedure but also one of the most dangerous, according to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS).
Many patients are travelling to the likes of Turkey or seeking out unregistered surgeons in the UK and are not given full information on the risks.
BBLs carry the highest risk of all cosmetic surgeries – with more than one death occurring per 4,000 procedures.
Due to celebrities undergoing such ops, many women are hoping to emulate their looks.
Consultant clinical psychologist Dr Anu Sayal-Bennett, a chartered member of the British Psychological Society, told the BBC: “Despite there being so much about body positivity, there are pressures for women – and men too – to look a certain way.”
Many people travel abroad for the procedure because it is cheaper and advertising is “terribly seductive”, combined with the idea of a beach holiday, added Dr Sayal-Bennett.
“The next procedure I plan on getting is a reduction, I’m not promising it, but I’m gonna go and see the doctor and see what the options are.
“My mother gave me my first $10,000 [£7,900] investment to get my body done, it was a really great investment. I was able to retire my mother because I made so much money with my new body.”
Not only has she enabled her mum to retire, but she’s also splashed cash on two Mercedes cars and a blue Lamborghini too.
It’s my body so I’ll get done whatever I need to get done to make sure I feel comfortable at all times
Zmeena Orr
But Zmeena shared her concerns on getting a reduction surgery, as she highlighted: “I think getting the butt reduction would probably make a lot of my fans angry and upset.
“I hope that my real [followers] stick beside me regardless.
“I live my luxury life unapologetically. A lot of my biggest haters are the ones that can’t afford to do what I’m doing. I’m still gonna have a booty, I have tons of it, it’ll just be a little smaller.
“I felt pressured to get plastic surgery but now I’m not pressured to do anything.
“I definitely do think I’ll give up plastic surgery altogether one day, I’m not addicted. It’s my body so I’ll get done whatever I need to get done to make sure I feel comfortable at all times.”
LOVE Actually was one of the first modern Christmas movies to switch out Santa in favour of romance.
However, long-time fans of the film, as well as some of the actors who feature in it, have pointed out some issues with the intertwining plots.
While the film as remained a Christmas classic both in the UK and abroad, there are some aspects which have left viewers scratching their heads over the years.
Fans have pointed out logistical errors as well as plot lines which have not aged too well since the movie’s 2003 release.
One of the plot line’s follows the life of Alan Rickman’s character Harry and his wife Karen, played by Emma Thompson.
Anyone who has seen Love Actually is all too aware of the devastating scene involving a Joni Mitchell CD.
Harry gifts it to his wife Emma, an avid fan of the singer, who then realises that the expensive necklace he has been hiding must be for another woman.
However, viewers were quick to point out that Karen, who is describes herself as having a “true love” for Joni Mitchell, would likely already own the record.
This makes Harry’s gift all the more devastating for his heartbroken wife.
And while Karen may have one of the saddest relationships in the film, some viewers have pointed out she’s not exactly innocent herself.
At the beginning of the film, we see a quick phone call between Karen and her close friend Daniel, played by Liam Neeson.
Daniel, who has just lost his wife, rings his his friend for support but she swiftly ends the conversation as she has to attend to her children.
The busy mum finishes the phone call by saying: “It doesn’t mean I’m not terribly concerned that your wife just died.”
This is all well and good, after all people can’t be expected to drop everything all the time for their loved ones.
That is until we learn that this conversation takes place the morning of Daniel’s wife’s funeral.
While viewers later see Karen lend a sympathetic ear as Daniel struggles with how to help his stepson Sam, her sympathy doesn’t last long.
A couple of scenes later, she tells Daniel: “No-one will shag you if you cry all the time.”
“This is my favorite part of Love Actually, when Liam Neeson is feeling sad about his dead wife and his best friend Emma Thompson tells him to get over it,” wrote one X user.
1. The Grinch (2018) – £424,000,000
2. Home Alone (1990) – £376,000,000
3. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) – £283,000,000
4. Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (2000) – £273,000,000
5. A Christmas Carol (2009) – £256,000,000
6. The Polar Express (2004) – £250,000,000
7. Elf (2003) – £180,000,000
8. The Holiday (2006) – £162,000,000
9. The Santa Clause (1994) – £150,000,000
10. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) – £137,000,000
Figures accurate as of November 2024
And Karen’s brother David, played by Hugh Grant, also experiences his own love story shortly after taking office as the Prime Minister.
While being introduced to the staff at Number 10, he instantly falls for quirky Natalie from “the dodgy end of Wandsworth.”
So when it comes time for his big romantic gesture, David heads to the area, knocking on doors until he finds his employee.
However, as Hugh Grant has pointed out, the Prime Minister is probably one of the most qualified people in the country to find a member of the public’s address, especially if they’ve worked for him.
“You watch these things and a lot of it is utterly preposterous,” he said in an interview with Vanity Fair.
“Of course the Prime Minister would have some civil servant who could find out exactly where she lived on the street, as many people have pointed out.”
As well as this, it seems highly unlikely that the PM would be allowed to wander the streets with limited security detail on a whim.
And speaking of security risks, the young Sam, played by Thomas Brodie-Sangster, makes an equally unlikely romantic gesture towards the end of the film.
Not wanting his crush Joanna to return to the States without knowing how he feels about her, he persuades his step-dad to drive him to Heathrow airport.
Also, his step-dad reveals he “knows a shortcut” to the airport, which a lot of Londoners would likely debate.
However, the pair don’t manage to catch Joanna before her family have almost reached the gate so Daniel encourages his step-son to sneak past security.
Sam runs past the queue and even leaps over a worker as he passes through the metal detector.
While Heathrow security give him a good chase, the simple slap on the wrist he gets as a results seems highly unlikely in a post-9/11 world.
For a film that directly addresses the terrorist attack in its opening monologue, the blunder is all the more glaring.
“The ending of Love Actually is RIDICULOUS. The boy running through the airport would be rugby tackled by police and arrested for terrorism,” pointed out one X user.
Colin Firth’s Jamie is yet another prominent character in the film, who jets away to the French countryside to mend his broken heart after walking in on his girlfriend and brother in bed together.
He uses the alone time to work on his novel, a crime thriller, accompanied only by Portuguese cleaner Aurelia, played by Lucia Moniz.
While Jamie can manage a handful of French, he has no Portuguese while Lucia doesn’t speak a word of English.
This leads the pair to communicate, bond, and eventually fall in love through hand gestures and lots of nodding.
After parting ways, Jamie returns to London and immediately enrolls in language classes.
He then flies to Portugal and tracks Lucia down at her job as a waitress, stopping by her family home along the way.
This grand romantic gesture makes you question how a writer had the capacity to track down his love interest abroad while the Prime Minister struggled to do when given the street address.
The author then proposes to his former housekeeper, despite having only shared a handful of sentences with her.
“Colin Firth in Love Actually will marry the Portuguese housekeeper he had two half conversations with within a couple weeks,” wrote one confused X user.
And perhaps the most iconic scene from the ensemble film is Andrew Lincoln’s Mark declaring his love for his best friend’s wife Juliet, played by Keira Knightley.
While the actress spoke about how creepy she found the concept in an interview with the Today Show, viewers pointed out a glaring issue with Mark’s plan.
Many fans of the movie have pondered what would’ve happened if Juliet’s husband was the one to answer the door.
“Thinking about what Andrew Lincoln would’ve done if Keira Knightley’s husband would’ve opened the door in Love Actually,” wrote one X user.
“In case the husband answered the door instead of Keira Knightley, the guy in Love Actually also had a card that said: ‘Hi dude! Good to see you! Got to head home now but thought I’d pop by to say hey,'” said another person.
Keira also commented on the close proximity of the already questionable move.
“It is creepy, I mean, it’s sweet but it is kind of creepy,” Keira said as she shared her thoughts on the gesture.
“It’s a little bit stalkery and also my husband is sitting just behind me.”
It’s also worth noting Mark recorded the entire wedding, zooming in on Juliet the entire time, but for some reason never thought his friends would ask to see the footage of their own nuptials.
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WAKING up in a hospital bed, Scott Peden knew how lucky he was to be alive.
Heavily bandaged and blackened with burns, he instantly recalled the horrific house fire he had managed to escape.
But turning to his mum Glenda, 65, who was sitting beside him, it soon became clear something was very wrong.
She had to break the devastating news that he would never see his wife or their two young children again.
Scott was the sole survivor of the blaze which had ripped through the family home while they slept.
Scott says: “I still can’t process what’s happened. I lost my entire family, everything, in a matter of minutes.”
Scott is now warning Christmas shoppers to be wary of buying second hand e batteries after losing both his partner and their children in the fire 18 months ago.
Scott Peden bought a second-hand battery after his own was stolen, and he needed his bike to get to work.
But two days after purchase, it exploded with such ferocity that it destroyed his home and killed his partner, Gemma Germeney, 31, and their two young children, Lilly, eight and Oliver, four. The family’s two dogs also perished.
Scott miraculously pulled through after four weeks in a coma and is now trying to rebuild his life and warn others of the dangers of second-hand lithium batteries.
Scott, 31, from Cambridge, says: “I grieve every day for the family I have lost, but this time of year is especially tough because Gemma and the children had birthdays, and my sister was murdered over New Year.
“At Christmas, when people are buying e-bikes as gifts, I am pleading with people not to buy second hand batteries.
“There needs to be stricter regulations over the resale of batteries, they should be checked and certified.
“We had smoke alarms, but because it was a lithium battery, we didn’t stand a chance. I lost everything in the fire, and I have to start all over again.
“Gemma should have celebrated her birthday on December 14th, Oliver should be 6 on December 23. Lily should be turning nine in January. Instead, they are gone. The only positive to come from this is me making sure it does not happen to anyone else.”
We were a happy family, Gemma was very maternal and loved being a mum.
Scott Peden
Scott and Gemma met at college in Cambridge as teenagers and moved in together ten years ago. Along with their two children they had a greyhound-boxer cross, named Bitsy, and a Dalmatian called Rolo.
Scott says: “We were a happy family, Gemma was very maternal and loved being a mum.
“She was also very artistic. She loved drawing, puzzles and colouring. She had a dream of being a baker and, with Oliver due to start school, she was looking at returning to work.
I still can’t process what’s happened. I lost my entire family, everything, in a matter of minutes
Scott
“I worked full time at Marks and Spencer, but with a young family, money was tight.”
To help out, Scott’s mum, Glenda, bought him an e-bike early in 2022, which he used to travel to work.
He says: “The e-bike was brilliant. I did shift work, so couldn’t rely on the buses, and it was too far to walk.”
But in June 2023, after he had nipped out to buy dog food, his battery was stolen from outside a local shop. Faced with no way of getting to work, Scott ordered a second-hand replacement on ebay.
He says: “A new battery cost £600, so when I found one on ebay for £300, I thought it was a bargain.”
Scott left the battery to charge downstairs, in the hallway. But on the second night, he and Gemma were woken at 12.45am by a huge bang. When Scott ran to investigate he found the entire staircase in flames.
He says: “The bang was like a bomb going off. The stairs were engulfed in flames; the walls, the banister, the whole lot was alight. I knew we had no chance of making it downstairs.
“I tried screaming for help out of the window, but nobody came and so I jumped out, into the back garden, breaking my heel as I landed.
“I got in through the back door and realised immediately the e-bike was the source. I tried to throw the battery outside, but the door was so hot, it burned my hands, and then the key melted.
“The fire was spreading, and I was choking, and I realised there was no way through.”
Scott still remembers the tragic final words Gemma said to him.
“I ran back out to the garden, hoping to persuade Gemma and the children to jump,” he says.
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“I heard Gemma shout: ‘I can’t get out,’ and then there was nothing.
“The house was ablaze, and I collapsed onto the children’s trampoline behind me. I was aware of someone patting me down and realised I was on fire.”
Neighbours called for help and stayed with Scott until firefighters and paramedics arrived. Scott saw Lilly’s body carried out of the house and passed out with the trauma.
He was placed in a coma for four weeks, and treated at Broomfield Hospital, a specialist burns unit in Chelmsford.
Glenda flew back from a holiday to be at her son’s bedside.
She says: “I didn’t even recognise him at first. He was heavily bandaged, and his face was very swollen and blackened with burns. I was told it was touch and go.
“The lithium battery fumes, which are toxic, had got into his lungs and caused severe damage.”
Over the coming weeks, Scott survived several brushes with death, including three bouts of pneumonia, a cardiac arrest and an infection. When he woke, he remembered all the details of the fire, but did not know if his family had survived.
Glenda recalls: “That was the worst thing, having to tell him that they didn’t make it.”
At a joint funeral, Scott played Ed Sheeran’s ‘Perfect’ which was his and Gemma’s song. The family’s ashes have since been buried together.
Scott says: “I still can’t process what’s happened. I lost my entire family, everything, in a matter of minutes.
“We had so much to look forward to, and I am dreading this new life, on my own. I don’t even have photos to remember them by, everything I owned was destroyed.”
He was already no stranger to tragedy as this Christmas also marks the second anniversary of his sister’s death.
Stephanie Hansen, 39, was murdered by her house mate, Sheldon Rodrigues, 30, in December 2022.
Scott says: “Stephanie was absolutely lovely, inside and out. She had a heart of gold and spent her spare time volunteering with community action groups.
“She was passionate about the environment and nature and was a member of a litter picking group.
Christmas is especially hard, and I am speaking out to warn other families of the dangers.
Scott Peden
“I’d met Rodrigues lots of times. He’d even spent Christmas with my family in the past. It was clear to anyone that he was obsessed with her. But we could never ever have dreamed that he would hurt her.”
Stephanie’s body was discovered on New Year’s Eve 2022 in her West London flat and her killer, who carried out the attack when she refused his advances, was jailed for life in March this year.
Losing both Stephanie and his closest family has left Scott feeling crushed.
He says: “As well as losing my entire family, I’ve had to go through the trauma of my sister’s murder, and the trial.
“Christmas is especially hard.”
Scott is now calling for greater regulation around e batteries, and wants to highlight the risks associated with buying second hand, to prevent further tragedies.
“I thought I was saving money, which is something all young families try to do, especially around Christmas,” he says. “I would never have had the battery in my home if I’d known there was a risk.”
JACOB Gagai hopes to guide Huddersfield up the Super League table after showing children the right path in life.
And the power of Kantok is fuelling his dream of making it as a full-time rugby league player.
The proud Australian of Torres Strait Island – the string just off the northern coast of the country – descent cannot be accused of lacking heart.
After years in the reserve ranks, he scored on his NRL debut for South Sydney Rabbitohs in the season opener in Las Vegas.
But that battle, as well as working with troubled schoolboys of indigenous backgrounds, mean there will be no easing off now he is on the other side of the world.
“I worked with boys from year seven to year 12 – 12 to 18-year-olds,” Gagai recalled. “Just guiding them through high school and keeping them on the right path.
“A lot of the boys came from broken homes. So I was in a school every day just being a role model for them. I’d help them find jobs and just be a big brother for them.
“It was very rewarding going into schools. I had something to look forward to getting up every day for, helping kids and trying to change their lives.
“And that helped with my rugby. Being around those boys and seeing them get their first job or diving licence, as well as life skills, was rewarding.
“It definitely gave me motivation to push more in rugby. When I played in Sydney, a lot of those kids came out to watch me play. That was awesome.”
After taking the advice of Tom Burgess, who made the same move from Sydney to Huddersfield, Giants boss Luke Robinson will have no shortage of effort from Gagai, who left 35 degrees heat for an English winter.
That comes from the 28-year-old’s family slogan, which applies to daily life as well as rugby league.
He added: “My dad is from Torres Strait, both my grandparents were born and raised on Torres Strait – my grandmother on Yam Island, my grandfather on Badu Island.
“And the Kantok motto means never give up. It’s the slogan, it’s something I live by. That’s not just with rugby, it’s with everything in life.
“There were days when it shook. I always knew I had the ability to play at a higher level, I just wasn’t getting the opportunities.
“But my family was an awesome help for me, they pushed me all the way – and Tom played a massive role in my coming here. He’s been awesome for myself in the transition of coming over here.”
