Sam Faiers 'I cried over my skin, I was so embarrassed - now I want to help other women'

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Samantha Faiers has opened up on her debilitating skin struggles which left her in tears at its worst. After she stopped breastfeeding her second child Rosie, now five, Sam suffered with severe acne which caused her great emotional distress. “I was so self-conscious, some days I didn’t want to even leave the house,” the 32 year old mum-of-three, who also shares Paul, seven, and 14 month old Edward with partner Paul Knightley said. “I remember one Christmas I was in The Maldives and I was crying every day because I was so embarrassed – it was so bad and inflamed.

I confided in Paul [her partner] and was like, ‘I don’t want to leave the room.’” Sam Faiers breaks America: 'I left school at 16 - now I've made my LA dream come true' View gallery Sam found the only thing that really worked for her was collagen and which sparked the "lightbulb moment" to create her own ingestible collagen business, Revive Collagen. “One of our big slogans from Revive Collagen is, ‘Beauty starts from within’ and it’s so true," she said. "Collagen was the only thing I tried that lead to me seeing improvement with my skin. "Women contact us who have had severe psoriasis, rosacea, or eczema.These women are buying the product for their skin or hair or wrinkles and it’s completely cleared their skin conditions.This business so rewarding because we help so many women.” Sam recently headed to LA as her beauty brand headed Stateside - it launched in Saks Fifth Avenue and is about to launch in 1800 stores across America in August and she’s just signed a very high-profile celebrity as her Stateside ambassador. “When we first decided to create the ingestible skincare brand, I put all my savings into it,” she told us.