A millionaire on a crusade to age backwards has suffered a “severe allergic reaction” after injecting another person’s fat into his face.
Bryan Johnson, the 47-year-old known for embarking on outlandish health treatments to regain the body of a teenager, had his face “blow up” to the point where he “couldn’t even see”.
Bryan Johnson, known for embarking on outlandish health treatments to regain the body of a teenager, had his face “blow up”.Credit: IMAGE SOURCE INSTAGRAM @bryanjohnson_
Photographs posted by the former tech mogul on Instagram show him squinting out from puffy eyelids, with the rest of his normally chiselled face swollen and balloon-like.
Johnson wanted to restore volume to his face to counteract his strict vegan diet of 1950 calories daily, which had left him looking gaunt.
“People thought I was on the brink of death,” he claimed. “It didn’t matter how good my biomarkers were if I didn’t have face fat.”
Johnson, who made $800 million from selling a payments processing company in 2013, was apparently too lean to supply the fat for the injections, and turned to a donor instead.
“Immediately following the injections, my face began to blow up,” he said, admitting that “Project Baby Face” had not gone to plan.
“It got worse, and worse, and worse until I couldn’t even see. It was a severe allergic reaction.”
It took seven days for his face to return to normal, Johnson added.