
In 2014, Skye Wheatley decided to enter the Big Brother house, and at the time, she had no idea how her stint on the reality show would change the course of her life.
Now, she's just won I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! Australia, and is one of Australia's most popular fitness and lifestyle influencers.
Watch: Skye Wheatley discusses surgery. Post continues below.
The 30-year-old was crowned the winner in Sunday night's grand finale, receiving $100,000 for her chosen charity, Bully Zero.
While her casting was initially met with scepticism, viewers of the show quickly fell in love with her after the resilience she showed while in the jungle.
Despite being considered a frontrunner from the start, Skye couldn't believe she had made it out victorious, stating: "I've never won anything."
Boasting close to 650,000 followers on Instagram, the mega influencer has people invested in her life both on-screen and off-screen.
So let's take a closer look as to who Skye is outside of the jungle.
Her time onBig Brother Australia.
Skye finished in third place on season 11 ofBig Brother Australia, but while the show was airing fans expected her to win the season.
The then 20-year-old was the youngest contestant to ever appear on the franchise and she experienced a rough ride, with the former barista from the Gold Coast often called "shallow and naive" by fellow housemates.
Skye opened up about her experience onBig Brotherin the first episode ofI'm A Celeb, admitting that people still comment on her personality.
"People always tell me, 'You say really stupid things, Skye,'" she said. "I always offend people and I don’t mean to. It hurts me."
Skye is one of the biggest success stories to come out ofBig Brother, and after the show she left behind her job as a barista to pursue social media instead, where she shares her family life, travel, renovations and daily musings.
In 2021 she was due to film the revampedBig Brotheras franchise "royalty", but as she toldI'm A Celeb,she was booted from the show weeks before filming, via email.
"I was supposed to go on for that, but a couple of weeks before flying to Sydney to do it, I answered a question on my Instagram, 'Who’s more dominant in the bedroom?'," Wheatley said.
"And I said, 'Oh, it depends … If I’m in the mood, I’m not going to take no for an answer.' But he likes that. He likes when I’m like, 'Babe, let’s have sex.'
"But everyone was like, 'You make him have non-consensual sex.'"
She explained that the email didn't give her a reason for not going ahead with her being on the show, but she doesn't see what else it could've been, telling the celebrities, "They didn’t want bad publicity or anything like that, which was really disappointing. It actually broke my heart".
"Body image has been my biggest hurdle in life."
Skye is an open book about most things in her life, and the work she's had done to her body is a topic her followers are particularly interested in.
Her transformation over the years is well-documented on her Instagram account, where she shares before and after photos of her cosmetic procedures.
The reality star has admitted to spending thousands on cosmetic surgery and procedures, tellingThe Projectthat it's an obsession that comes from being on TV.
She underwent her first breast augmentation procedure overseas in Thailand in 2015 to help even out her breast size. Unfortunately, it didn't go according to plan, and Skye was left with a "botched" bubble in her breast after surgery.
"When I had the bandages taken off I could see a really noticeable double bubble in my right breast and I was in a lot of pain. I was in bed the whole time trying to recover and wear my compression bra," Skye said onTrial By Kylein 2018.
"They're quite different sizes and that's what I wanted to correct. Obviously, I was insecure about my breasts beforehand, so now it's just amplified. It's a lot worse. I had spent nights crying over it and being so upset over it."
She then spent $28,000 on corrective surgery in Australia.
Skye also had a rhinoplasty in 2016, which she documented over on her YouTube channel.
Despite going under the knife a few times, Skye still struggles with body image and told viewers in a YouTube video that her surgeries didn't "fix" her insecurities.
"I feel like [body image] has been my biggest hurdle in life and something that I've focused on a lot," she said in 2020 when asked about her transformation.
"Which I know I shouldn't, but I’ve always been very hard on myself, I've always been very self-critical.
"I know it's normal for people to be like that, it’s human nature… but I was pretty extreme with it. I used to wear a hat in class [at school] because I was worried about my eye bags. That's how crazy it was. I had so many insecurities, not the normal amount a child my age should have and I don't know why I was like that, I don't know what happened.
"I was always very self-conscious of my weight, very insecure about everything about me. Insecure about my eye bags, my skin; how white I was, my hair.
"I honestly would try to cover up as much of my face as possible with a hat, and lots of makeup. I think when I turned 15 I would pack on the makeup… and I still hated myself. I hated my teeth, I hated my freckles and hated my nose. Hated it. I never learned to accept my nose and went and had plastic surgery."
She then went on to reveal that even as an adult, she's not entirely content with her physical appearance.
"I still have insecurities, I'm still really hard on myself, and yeah, I probably need counselling. It's bad to be like that," she said.
Skye also had a message for the young girls who look up to her, urging them to not take everything at face value.
"Like, hello. I'm not real. If you’re looking at me thinking 'f**k she's perfect', I have had my nose, I've had my boobs, I've had my lips, I've whitened my teeth, I've coloured my hair, I wear fake tan, there’s a lot of peacocking."
"We trialled co-parenting." A complicated family life.
Skye is currently dating longtime partner Lachlan Waugh, a 33-year-old businessman, but despite being together for six years, their relationship hasn’t always been smooth sailing.
Earlier in the year, Skye and Lachlan's relationship was plagued by break-up rumours. However, the influencer later revealed that the two worked out their differences by attending couples counselling.
"We trialled co-parenting, so I would have the kids two nights then he would have the kids two nights. After a little bit doing that, [Lachlan] was like, 'Okay, you can come home now,'" Skye said in a TikTok video.
Basmah Qazi
Senior Lifestyle Writer
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