She didn’t anticipate, however, how much the transformation would affect her outside of the mirror.

Devyn Aiken has always felt bad about her appearance.

Although her 61,500 TikTok followers frequently misunderstand it, Devyn Aiken never thought of herself as ugly before to her operation in November. She didn’t choose to have a rhinoplasty to change her self-esteem, despite what many people believe.

“I thought I was a pretty girl. I didn’t think I was ugly,” she shares in her interview just nine weeks post-surgery. “You could ask anyone—they would say I was very confident, very secure with who I was. I just thought I had a huge nose that I hated.”

For Devyn, the surgery wasn’t about drastically altering her appearance or looking for approval. As evidence that confidence isn’t only about needing to change