Days after claiming that winning the lottery should come with a government health warning, Jane Park has gone into more detail over how winning £1,000,000 on the Euromillions aged 17 nearly ruined her life for good.
She told LADBible this week that her dumbest purchase and biggest regret was a botched surgery to make her bum bigger:
“The only purchase I regret is my first Brazilian Bum Lift. I was left in absolute agony and hospitalised for four weeks with suspected sepsis.”
In the end, she managed to sort it all out by paying for another surgery to get the original surgery corrected, but the BBL isn’t the only regret that Park admits to since winning the lottery. The 26-year-old also regrets going public with the win in 2013:
“I do regret going public.
Yes it was my choice, but I was just seventeen and it happened so quickly.
I thought I had won on the Sunday, but I had to wait until Monday morning to call Camelot and find out for sure.
I found out on Monday, was persuaded to do publicity without thinking of the negative impacts it would have and within 48 hours I had a photographer and publicity team in front of me.
I feel like there should be at least a 14-day period for winners to truly decide what they want to do, rather than make a decision whilst you’re still coming to terms with the fact you’ve become a millionaire.
I didn’t want to have a public profile, as such, but I have given interviews publicly to raise awareness.
A lot of people think that the solution to my problems is simply to give all the money away to charity, but at some point I would like to have a family and how could I knowingly give it all away when it could help my children with their education and start in life later in the future?”
I guess it does make sense that a 17-year-old would want to go public and lap up the attention, but it’s too bad no one was around to convince Jane that it might not be the best idea in the world. Obviously the peeps at the Lotto want you to go public; it’s great publicity for them and makes the prospect of winning the lottery seem all the more conceivable to the average joe and jane.
Still, it’s not all bad news for Jane. She’s invested her money wisely (aside from the BBL) and is still living the good life almost a decade later.
She also became an absolute content machine for blogs like ours. Big up Jane Park!
