Ashley Stobart previously told PEOPLE she was left with “extreme” skin sagging from dissolving fillers, leading her to get a facelift at 34
The influencer says officials don’t recognize her on her passport photo
She hosts the U.K.-based podcast, “Nip Tuck”
While cosmetic surgery can enhance one’s features, it can apparently lead to identification problems with passports.
Ashley Stobart and Lauren Elizabeth Adamson are U.K.-based influencers who co-host the Nip Tuck podcast.
During a recent episode, Stobart, who previously stirred controversy when she decided to get a facelift at 34, said her decision has caused issues when she’s traveling.
“My passport, ‘cause I’ve had that much work done, it doesn’t work on the barriers,” she confessed while laughing.
Adamson agreed, trying to share a similar story of a girl she knew of, but Stobart’s experience was prompting too much laughter on set as others from off-camera became audibly amused.
“I’m not even joking!” Stobart said, laughing harder. “It doesn’t work!”
She said when it comes time to put the passport through the machine that scans photos, the technicians are typically “like, ‘No.’”
“I got stopped and they were like, ‘This is not [you]. Have you got credit cards on you?’” Stobart explained of officials trying alternative methods of confirming her identity.
“He was like, ‘What the hell?’” she recalled.
Ashley Stobart/instagram
Ashley Stobart
The influencer acknowledged his confusion by listing procedures she had done such as a “nose job” and a “brow lift.”
Finally getting a word in, Adamson said, “The girl I know got stopped from going into Turkey for that exact reason. ‘Cause she’d had a lot of work done. And she put the pictures up and to be fair, it didn’t look anything like her.”
“Nose job changes everything,” Adamson continued.
For Stobart, it’s “eyebrows” that can really make all the difference.
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“Or even just doing your brows,” Adamson agreed, adding, “They said to her, ‘This is not you.’”
The traveler even tried to pull up photos from during her surgeries to show officials she was the one in the passport photo.
Fans weighed in with advice and stories of their own in the comment section.
One person who “worked on behalf of border force for seven years” said “the computer doesn’t have the final say” explaining that a real person monitors everything from an office.
Another wrote, “I had a facial specialist once I had to wait at immigration and a man had to come and study my face the most awkward ever he spent ten minutes glaring me in the eyes until he told me that it was actually me on the passport.”
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