Claudia Winkleman ‘eternally grateful’ after undergoing surgery
She's not allowed to wear eyeliner for weeks.
Claudia Winkleman has undergone eye surgery, she has revealed.
The Traitors host, 53, has taken to social media to thank her eye surgeon for operating on her today.
‘This amazing human makes me see. He’s operated on my eyes before and he did it again today,’ she said on Instagram, alongside a picture of her next to Dr Julian Stevens.
‘No eyeliner for weeks and I sleep in googles (no words) but I’m eternally grateful,’ she added.
‘Do NOT zoom in on my left eye – it’s wonky. Thank you Julian. I paid for the treatment, this isn’t an ad. I just love him. It’s very possible I’m still a bit sedated. Night night.’
The Strictly presenter’s comments section was flooded with support from well-wishers, as follower Suzanne Robinson said: ‘Get well soon.’
Claudia thanked her surgeon, who has operated on her previously (Picture: Claudia Winkleman/Instagram)‘Love you !! Hope you feel better. Amazing man,’ said ava_xoox while gurcharan_davany added: ‘Speedy recovery eyeliner queen.’
While it’s not clear why Claudia underwent the surgery this time, she’s previously been open about suffering with severe short-sightedness, which means she can’t see objects far away.
Speaking on the How To Fail podcast in 2023 about how she doesn’t take too much notice of her appearance, Claudia explained: ‘I was born, I think with minus 15 [eyes], so I’ve never really been able to see my face. It’s all guesswork.’
Claudia – who is known for her iconic long fringe – went on to say she’s had operations because she was ‘banging into walls’ and she now wears lenses and glasses.
However, despite laser eye surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital, Claudia found her vision was still blurry.
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Previous Page Next Page Claudia previously revealed she struggled to see her own face (Picture: Samir Hussein/WireImage)She added: ‘I’ve always had terrible eyesight, which is going back to the blurriness of the paintings I like, and the blurriness of how I’d really like life to be, which is no overhead lights – 17th century is where I would have absolutely smashed it.’
Finding lightness in her eye issues – and acknowledging her trademark black eyeliner – Claudia said: ‘Often when the kids have been playing with my phone with the camera switched round and I have to call somebody or I’m making a call, I’m like “I don’t understand why Ozzy Osbourne..I didn’t even invite him round”, and then I’m like, “Ah, it’s me.”
Earlier this year, Claudia also touched on her condition on Gabby Logan’s The Mid Point podcast.
‘I’ve had so many operations on my eyes. I had a lens replacement in my left eye because my astigmatism was so bad I was minus 16, but that was 14 years ago,’ she said.
Claudia explained how she then became long-sighted: ‘Then I had a little fiddle with but because I was so short sighted by then fixing it I’m now long sighted so I can’t really read any more.
‘I can with glasses, I’ve got plus 2.5 but I can’t read The Bee Sting with those glasses and that light.’
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