Mandi Vakili is one of the stars of the new series of Netflix’s Sidemen reality show, Inside
The Sidemen, a well-known YouTube crew, are taking a crack at reality TV with their high-stakes gameshow Inside, which has just kicked off its second series.
Streaming on Netflix from today (March 17), the show throws a bunch of social media celebs under one roof for a week, battling it out for a cool £1 million prize. They’ve got to take on all sorts of challenges to avoid getting booted out daily.
And here’s the kicker: every choice they make could slash the final prize money. Even splashing out on luxuries like a cuppa joe or tea, which could set them back hundreds of quid.
Among the stars hoping to bag the million is influencer Mandi Vakili, but who exactly is this 33-year-old content queen?
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Who is Mandi Vakili?
Mandi’s an Instagram model and fashion content whizz. She’s got a whopping 355K followers on Instagram and another 124.5K on TikTok, reports OK!
Love Island connections
Mandi shot to fame when her big sis Anna starred in the 2019 summer series of Love Island. The sisters have been spotted partying with US influencer Dan Bilzerian in the past.
After her stint on the ITV2 show, Anna teamed up with Mandi for a podcast called Sisters in the City, where they spill the beans on their lives as young women in London.
While she’s often linked with her sister, Mandi’s making strides to establish her own name in the biz.
Before diving into the Sidemen’s reality TV antics, Mandi dished out some real talk: “I was best known for being Anna’s sister from Love Island, but after this show she’s gonna be known for being Mandi Vakili’s sister from Sidemen Inside.”
Surgery confession
Spilling the tea on her cosmetic surgery journey, Mandi got real about how it’s done a number on her bod. On the Sisters in the City Podcast with sibling Anna, 34, she laid bare her multiple BBLs, breast lifts, and implants, both in the UK and abroad.
The social media star owned up to chasing more ops after the first ones left her looking ‘botched.’ Turns out, Anna’s been down a similar road, with her own beauty tweaks leading to more surgeries to sort out the slip-ups.
In their heart-to-heart, Mandi shared a nugget of wisdom someone threw at her early on: “Do you know what someone said to me at the very beginning, when we started getting surgery? [They said]: ‘The more surgery you get, the more surgery you get.’
“And why’s that? Cause the more you nip and tuck, the more you gotta fix and undo all them previous f***** surgeries. Oh my god if I could just only turn back time.”
The soon-to-be Netflix sensation later confessed: “I ruined myself,” and didn’t stop there, adding: “I have actually destroyed myself to the point where now I can’t even walk around in a bikini without thinking everyone around me is looking at these massive, sticking out, keloid scars.
“I can’t even sunbathe on my chest because I’ve got these massive scars, dark, black, sticking out.”
The sisters then urged other youngsters to ponder deeply before going under the knife for any beauty enhancements.
Inside by Sidemen is streaming now on Netflix.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
