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Chloe Sims has revealed the brutal moment she realised she wasn’t famous in Los Angeles.
The former TOWIE star, 44, who rose to fame on the reality series in 2011, quit the show in 2022 and jetted off to LA with her sisters to live there permanently and film their Kardashian-style reality show, House of Sims.
However, while appearing on the Boyfriend Material podcast with host Harry Jowsey, Chloe admitted she didn’t receive the warm welcome she had expected.
Speaking on the podcast, she said: ‘Nobody cares about me here. Literally no one gives a f**k.’
Harry replied: ‘There’s so much celebrity culture here too.’
Chloe continued: ‘Yeah and I couldn’t work out whether I liked it or hated it. Because in one point of view I could pretty much be a normal person again but then it has it’s downfalls.’
The reality star, who is keen to make a name for herself in the US, went on to explain how she realised nobody knew who she was.
She said: ‘I used to go to the toilet in London and girls would be like “Omg I love your hair” and I’d be like “Thanks yours is nice too.” Well I didn’t realise that was all because of TOWIE.
‘And then I moved to LA and all the girls were being really mean to me. I just noticed that no one knows me here I’m just a regular person.’
Despite the reality check, Chloe is still living in LA and admitted life in the US has been amazing so far.
She said: ‘Life in LA is amazing. I’m not who I am in the UK. I’ve had time off from being famous, but I’m hoping that everyone in the city is going to know my name eventually.’
She added: ‘We landed in America completely blind. We had a house for a month, we didn’t know our way around!
‘Even getting a reservation at a restaurant isn’t easy when you’re not famous here. It’s been a bit of humble pie for me.’
It comes after Chloe revealed she was offered any cosmetic surgery she wanted for free after making her debut on the hit reality series, The Only Way Is Essex.
The TV personality has always been open about undergoing various cosmetic procedures, with reports suggesting she has spent over £100,000 on her appearance transformation.
Now, the star has recently admitted that when she first joined the show, she got ‘offered every surgery in the world’ as she reflected on undergoing her first surgery – a breast augmentation.
Speaking with Paul Brunson on his We Need To Talk podcast, she said: ‘The look back then was like all boobs and nothing else. Skinny. Boobs. Sort of how the glamour models looked.
‘I really wanted to have a big chest, I was obsessed with that, and I thought that was going to change all my dreams. And then I did that, and when I went onto TOWIE, I got offered every surgery in the world.
She continued: ‘I could have had anything I wanted for free. So then I wanted to go even bigger, and as luck would have it, someone must’ve been looking down on me. They couldn’t fit them in.’
Chloe explained that she wanted her boobs to look ‘big and fake’, to which her surgeon told her they would try their best.
However, when she woke up from the surgery, her surgeon said the breast implant size she had wanted wouldn’t fit in her body.
So, Chloe had to be given a smaller breast implant, one that would fit her body and wouldn’t lead to any risks.
Often, some surgeons will have no choice but to refuse overly large implants on people with smaller chests as they can run the risk of infection, skin stretching, and necrosis – the premature, unnatural death of cells and living tissue.
Elsewhere in the interview, Chloe confessed that she still has the same implants in, however, she has wanted to remove them for a while.
She said: ‘I just can’t be bothered for major surgery for no reason. It’s something that I would really love to take out, I don’t want them anymore. It’s not a good look, I do tend to hide them most of the time.’
The TOWIE star has previously had breast implants and a Brazilian bum lift, and several years ago spoke about getting fillers removed from her face.
