One of the internet's biggest (and most unusual) stars has got to be Dr Sandra Lee, aka: Dr Pimple-Popper. Seriously, if you told me a couple of years ago that a dermatologist's YouTube channel would take off big-time on the internet, I would have laughed in your face. Yet she now boasts millions of subscribers on her various social media accounts, and her Instagram is jam-packed with clips of her up to her elbows in pus and blood, dealing with all manner of zits, boils, moles and cysts. Who would have thought that watching footage of a gloved hand squeeze what mashed potato out of people's plukes would ever be so captivating?

In fact, her videos have gotten so popular that she's even launched her own reality TV series, to keep up with the incredible demand for more spot-bursting action. The series made its debut on TLC on July 11, 2018, and already has a devoted fanbase of loyal viewers. But what if I told you that you could be privy to some even more gruesome footage, and see special behind-the-scenes videos of Dr Lee dealing with skincare issues that are too gory or horrifying for TV or Instagram? Interested? I thought you might be.

Yes, Dr Lee has just launched a website called  "The Pretty Pimple,"  which delves into the real nitty-gritty of clean skin and spots, and hosts exclusive content and footage. Commenting on her new enterprise, Dr Lee stated: "I spend hours and hours with all of these patients. The TLC episodes do an amazing job telling the stories, but there are four cases per episode, so it’s impossible to fit everything in. I get so many messages after the show, asking how my patients are doing, so I thought that people would appreciate the behind-the-scenes outtakes."

In addition to the sometimes stomach-churning vids, you can also discover skincare hacks, product endorsements, and Dr Lee's own guides on how to cope with various unpleasant skin ailments, including ringworm, keratosis pilaris, impetigo, cellulitis, lipomas, and many other conditions. Dr Lee has also provided special recaps of her episodes, along with some juicy extra visuals.

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Last year Dr Lee expanded her portfolio by launching her own skincare range, which she called SLMD, an acne treatment system which includes an acne lotion with benzoyl, a clarifying treatment with retinol, daily moisturiser, and acne spot treatment, all specially designed by her to cleanse and moisturise pores.

In an interview with Cosmopolitan, Dr Less stated: "Many people cannot see a dermatologist because of time, distance, finances, etc ... I want to give people treatment products that are the same, or very similar, to what I would prescribe to my own patients."

So there you have it. Now all you popaholics need to do is to follow the link above, and you can watch the pus flow to your heart's content! Man ... I think I feel a bit queasy.

Dermatologist and TV star Sandra Lee was taken to hospital after suffering a stroke on set.

Best known for her role as Dr. Pimple Popper, the 55-year-old opened up on her chilling health episode in a candid interview on Tuesday (April 14).

Lee, who hosts the popular reality show, is known for filming her sometimes gruelling dermatological procedures, which many social media users seem to enjoy watching.

Many of these videos fall into the 'satisfying watch' category, as they can include blackhead extractions or the removal of serious skin growths.

The original show enjoyed a successful eight-season stint on TLC from 2018, with Lee now heading up the Lifetime spin-off, 'Dr. Pimple Popper: Breaking Out', which she was on set for when she suffered a stroke.

Sandra Lee opened up about her health scare for the first time. Credit: Jim Spellman/Getty Images

Dr. Pimple Popper opens up about her stroke

Speaking to People, she revealed: "It happened while I was filming the show, I had what I thought was a hot flash. I got super sweaty and didn’t feel like myself.”

She headed to her parents' house after filming, where problems didn't subside, as Lee instead felt a shooting pain in her leg and struggled to walk down the stairs.

Lee noticed that her symptoms were mostly affecting her left side, recalling: “I would hold my hand out, and it would just slowly collapse,

“I noticed that I had a tough time articulating and just enunciating. I thought, ‘Am I having a stroke?’”

Her father, who also happens to be a dermatologist, told her to go to the emergency room, where she had an MRI scan and was told that she had suffered from an ischemic stroke.

“What essentially happened is I had a part of my brain that died,” she revealed.

The health scare then caused Sandra to take a two-month break from all filming as she recovered, with it becoming the franchise's first known production hiatus since its original series premiered eight years ago.

The TV personality wants to normalise the discussion around suffering strokes. Credit: Instagram/@drpimplepopper

Lee's recovery journey

The presenter said that she had to undergo physical therapy for "very basic things," adding: “I don’t like that I don’t have total control of my left hand or the grip wasn’t as strong.”

Lee said that "it's very scary" if she doesn't feel her best, revealing that filming for her show resumed in January.

However, there is the worry of there being more complicated surgeries later down the road, as the TV host admitted that "there's a lot of PTSD" associated with the situation as it happened while she was filming.

Lee showed her gratitude for support from staff, as she was able to manage while recovering from her stroke.

Her goal is to remove the stigma around strokes, which she also mentioned isn't uncommon in Asian cultures.

She explained: “In Asian cultures in particular they don’t tell people they’ve had a stroke because it can be seen as a sign of weakness,

“I want to get the word out that if you have symptoms like I had, make sure you see your doctor. Take care of yourself.”

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Dr. Sandra Lee has made a whole career out of popping people's pimples, so you'd think that she would be all about getting as much information as possible on her favourite topic.

But you'd be very wrong, as was recently revealed by a rare confessional video filmed by Dr. Pimple Popper. It turns out that some pops, squeezes and pus are too much even for the queen of pimples.

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In a rare confessional-style introduction to the video, the 47-year-old professional admitted she was "not a true popaholic" because she doesn't watch pimple popping footage not made by her - but not for the reason you'd expect...

Rather than because she feels grossed out, the dermatologist can only watch her own videos because she doesn't have control of the pop in others. "I'm not a true popaholic," she said. "Every time there's a big popping video on the internet, I seem to get a flood of texts or messages or tags, and I will tell you a little secret: I don't watch those videos. I can't. It bothers me [...] Maybe it has something to do with control [...] I know when I'm doing a surgery that I'm under control and that the person is safe and I know everything is going well. I think that's part of it — I don't know. Either that or I guess I'm just into my own pimple popping."

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So, is there anything that the 47-year-old doctor finds gross? Or is she completely and utterly immune to this kind of thing now? Shockingly, Dr. Lee does have one thing that she simply can't stand: toes.

When asked by Mashable if she ever has to suppress a gag reflex from time to time, she told them: "I have to be careful with that, and I definitely don't really do that when I'm doing cysts or something. If something's infected, it can smell bad, but I think I've conditioned myself not to do that because I'm so aware — and my staff knows this too, they know to never go ahhh oh my god. We never say anything. We try not to get excited because these people are coming in a very vulnerable state. You don't want them to feel embarrassed about it."

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She continued: "I definitely have to suppress a little gag when I have to deal with somebody's toes or toenail fungus. My husband is a dermatologist, and he removes toenails — I can't do that, that's too disgusting. It's like, barbaric, it's like, ugh."

The dermatologist recently wowed fans all over again when she removed a woman's "tail" on her show. Having nicknamed the tail "Lizzie the Lipoma", the patient - a young woman called Taylor - had lived with a lump in between her bum cheeks since she was born and told of how it had destroyed her self-confidence. Luckily, Dr. Lee was there to help, sewing Taylor up with "two to three times" the normal amount of stitches to make sure the incision heals correctly.

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What a career, eh?

Are you a popaholic? No, that's not a fan of soda pop, or catchy singles on the radio. Popaholics are fans of watching pimples get popped, zits get zapped and cysts get squeezed. Seriously. The stomach-churning spot-bursting videos have racked up millions of views. According to a scientist, some people (you) find watching the videos 'therapeutic.' Meanwhile, others (me) find watching the videos disgusting. We'll have to agree to disagree. (But I'm right.)

Speaking of disgusting videos, Logan Paul. The charismatic vlogger sparked international outrage when he mocked a suicide victim in Japan. If you stumbled across a dead man swinging from a noose, you'd probably turn the video camera off and call the police. But Logan thought, "Let's get a selfie and do some improv!" After the incident, Logan apologized and tried to redeem himself. The vlogger has remained in the spotlight, fighting rival YouTuber KSI in a boxing match, and, now, getting a cyst removed from Dr. Pimple Popper.

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Dr Pimple Popper - aka dermatologist Sandra Lee - is the queen of quease, lacerating boils, zits, moles, cysts - you name it. Thanks to her visceral, vomit-inducing videos, she's got over four million subscribers on YouTube and her own TV show on The Learning Channel. Dr. Lee has extensive experience popping bloody, pus-oozing blemishes in the deepest, darkest, nastiest crevices of the human body. So, she's one of the few people perfectly equipped to deal with Logan Paul.

In the video, Logan visits Dr. Pimple Popper to remove a repulsive cyst from his back. Which is ironic, because Logan's YouTube channel is a repulsive cyst on the Internet - and apparently, that's not going anywhere. Before they get started with the main event, there's an opening act: A member of Logan's entourage gets a third nipple removed. The young capitalist then offers to sell the nipple on his merch website, and I don't know if he was joking.

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Anyway, Dr. Lee preps the patient, and Logan's girlfriend, Chloe Bennett terminates the cyst. See, Chloe's the one who noticed the cyst on his back, and she even gave it a nickname: Jared. As she removes Jared, a surprising amount of clumpy pus oozes out. It kind of looks like goat cheese - and I really hope you're eating goat cheese right now. After the doctor cleans the blood out of the hole or whatever - I don't know, I was looking at the ceiling - the 23-year-old manchild is good to go.

Dr. Lee uploaded a video about the operation on her YouTube channel, if you'd like to watch the operation from a different angle. It's like Rashomon, but for popping pimples. I'm not sure why Logan  didn't just ask KSI to just punch the cyst off of his back, but yeah, this procedure was probably more efficient. In related news, I'm never writing a story about this subject again.

In a truly unexpected moment of live television, longtime FOX29 anchor Mike Jerrick found out he had skin cancer during a broadcast — while casually chatting about the importance of mole checks.

The jaw-dropping discovery happened during a segment of Good Day Philadelphia, where Jerrick was joined by dermatologist Dr. Joanna Walker from the Tara Miller Melanoma Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

The idea surrounding the segment was simple: raise awareness about skin health. But it took a very personal — and public — turn.

“So This Is a Basal Cell Skin Cancer”

As the cameras rolled, Dr. Walker inspected a spot on Jerrick’s right elbow that immediately raised a red flag. Without missing a beat, she announced: “So this is a basal cell skin cancer. That has all the features of the most common type of skin cancer.”

Jerrick, stunned but composed, responded: “It is?”

Basal cell carcinoma is the most common type of skin cancer in the United States, affecting an estimated 3.6 million people annually, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation. While it's rarely life-threatening, it still requires timely removal to prevent spreading and skin damage.

Dr. Walker reassured him on-air: “It’s a very slow-growing type of skin cancer. It’s not gonna spread to anywhere else on your body.” But she was also clear about the next step: “It needs to be removed so it doesn’t keep growing and taking over normal skin.”

“What!? And Then Stitch Me Up?”

That’s when things got real. When Jerrick asked if they would burn the spot off, Dr. Walker replied bluntly: “This one probably needs to be cut and stitched.”

Visibly surprised, Jerrick replied: “What!? And then stitch me up?”

The news was delivered live on-air. Credit: Fox29

He later reflected on the segment, telling Fox News Digital: “I did say that we should have had her bring her [micro]scope because I wanted to check out a couple of things on my arms. So that part was planned. But I never really thought it was going to be skin cancer.”

When co-host Alex Holley asked if Jerrick should book an appointment, Dr. Walker confirmed that a follow-up was necessary — and urgent.

A Diagnosis That Shocked Viewers and the Host Alike

Despite the shocking on-air reveal, Jerrick remained calm. “When she blurted it out, I didn’t get alarmed or anything. It was just like, ‘Oh dang, I should have done this a long time ago.’”

Still, the TV host admitted he was more startled by the treatment plan: “I was more shocked that she said she was going to cut it out instead of burn it off—that’s where I got surprised.”

He’s since scheduled the procedure to remove the cancerous spot, set to take place on Friday. “I should be fine,” he assured viewers. “She’ll just suture me up and I’ll be on my way.”

However, viewers have sent their support on social media, with one X user writing: "Discovering that live must’ve been so intense! Stay strong."

Another added: " Saw the clip about your skin cancer and it really hit me. Don't know why, but the surprise of it [...] Glad that it is gonna be this easy to take care of and glad everything is ok! Good luck sir."

Why This Moment Matters — For Everyone

Viewers were quick to thank Jerrick for turning an everyday health check into a teachable moment that could very well save lives. “It’s important to get those checked,” he advised, especially for anyone noticing suspicious changes or markings on their skin.

Dr. Walker’s swift identification underscores the importance of regular skin checks—especially when up to 1 in 5 Americans will develop skin cancer by the age of 70. According to the Mayo Clinic, basal cell carcinoma often appears in sun-exposed areas like the head and neck and can look like a pink or skin-colored bump on light skin, or brown/black on darker skin tones.

Preventative measures like avoiding tanning beds, limiting sun exposure, and using sunscreen are key steps to reducing your risk.

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