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Celebrity Transformations Before And After Plastic Surgery
Ever wondered how some celebrities seem to defy the aging process? The secret is not always good genes or the most expensive skincare products that money can buy.
Sometimes it takes a contribution from cosmetic surgeons willing to help with a little nip, tuck, or wrinkle-smoothing injection.
While Courteney [private part] called getting fillers the "biggest beauty regret" of her life, Sharon Osbourne said she has done so much facial surgery that there isn't "that much skin left to stretch, pull, cut.
From Megan Fox to the Kardashian siblings, here are some stars who have altered their appearance with plastic surgery.
- For a more recent example, see Matt Rife's plastic surgery before-and-after, which had fans doing double takes on social media.
- The conversation has also spread to politics - Kristi Noem's before-and-after photos have become one of the most-shared examples of the "Mar-a-Lago face" trend.
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Courteney [private part]
Courteney [private part]’s “biggest beauty regret” was getting facial fillers.
“There’s so much pressure to stay looking young in this industry that once you start, it becomes a bit of a domino effect and you keep on having more,” the Friends star was quoted telling Woman magazine.
“To the rest of the world your face is so obviously changing, but to yourself — because you’re only having one procedure at a time — you don’t notice,” she told the magazine last year.
“It was a total waste of time and I wish I hadn’t caved into the pressure of having it,” she added.
Ariana Grande
While revealing some of her beauty secrets to Vogue last year, Ariana Grande said she underwent cosmetic procedures when she was younger but stopped in 2018.
“I had a ton of lip filler over the years, and Botox. I stopped in 2018 because I felt so — too much,” she said. “For a long time, beauty was about hiding for me and now I feel like maybe it’s not.”
“I want to see my well-earned cry lines and smile lines,” she went on to say. “I hope my smile lines get deeper and deeper and I laugh more and more. Aging can be such a beautiful thing.”
Kaley Cuoco
Kaley Cuoco revealed being absolutely happy about the changes she made to her body over the years.
"Years ago, I had my nose done and my [private parts] -- best thing I ever did," she said in a 2016 issue of Women's Health magazine. "Recently I had a filler in a line in my neck I’ve had since I was 12."
"As much as you want to love your inner self ... I’m sorry, you also want to look good," added the Big Bang Theory actress. "I don’t think you should do it for a man or anyone else, but if it makes you feel confident, that’s amazing."
Simon Cowell
This year, Simon Cowell, one of the first male TV stars to admit to using injectables, said that he couldn’t recognize himself when he saw a “before” picture of himself.
"There was a phase where everyone was having their faces pumped full of this and the other,” he told The Sun earlier this year. “I saw a picture of me from ‘before’ the other day and didn't recognise it as me first of all.”
He told the outlet that his priority is having “clean skin.”
“There’s lots of things you can do now,” he told the outlet. “You don’t just have to stuff your face with filler and Botox.”
“It hurts like h**l but it gets rid of sun damage and unplugs all the [poop],” he added. “For me now, it’s all about having clean skin.”
Tori Spelling
Tori Spelling, who previously said she has gotten a nose job and a breast-related procedure, said there have been rumors about her getting plastic surgery since she was 17 years old.
“The one thing for me that has stuck forever was the plastic surgery thing,” she told People in 2019. “I literally had my nose done and my [private parts] done, and that’s it. I’m constantly reading that I’ve done more.”
“People have been talking about me having plastic surgery since I was 17,” she added. “I remember my dad [producer Aaron Spelling] saying, ‘Don’t worry. It will go away next week.’ But that one thing has stayed with me my entire career!”
Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Osbourne revealed that she has had so much facial surgery done that there is “not that much skin left to stretch, pull, cut.”
“I’ve had a string of cosmetic procedures beginning with a browlift and facelift. I had liposuction on my neck and had it lifted, too. I had my [private parts] lifted, my arms lipo-ed and my tummy tucked,” she told The Telegraph in December 2023. “I had my [b**t] lifted and implants inserted. Then I had a facelift three-and-a-half years ago. I was left with one eye higher than the other. It took a year to put it all right.”
She also said she has been “injecting” herself “once a week with Ozempic,” because of which she said she “lost 42lb” in four months.
“I’ve had enough,” she added. “I’ve given up on all interventions. Anyway, I couldn’t have much more facial surgery because there’s not that much skin left to stretch, pull, cut. And I won’t have any more fillers or Botox.”
Olivia Munn
Like many celebrities, Olivia Munn has been accused of having cosmetic surgery in the past. Fans have speculated over the years about whether she had cheek implants or, perhaps, underwent a rhinoplasty.
The X-Men: Apocalypse actress has addressed claims from netizens about her face looking completely different.
“I posted [a] picture on Instagram because the glam team had worked very hard. People were like, ‘What did she do to her face?’ A week later, I looked completely different,” she told Fashion in 2016. “As an actor, you can be completely transformative and take on different roles. As an individual in the world, it’s a totally different story―we live in a time where there [are] so many pictures that bring so much scrutiny. When your face changes because of makeup, it’s hard to let people know that you’re not actually doing surgery or fillers.”
The actress, who revealed earlier this year that she was diagnosed with breast cancer, said she was “devastated” with the results of her breast reconstruction surgery after losing so much breast tissue during her double mastectomy.
"I didn't want to have [private parts]. I didn't want them to look like a [private parts] job. [The surgeon] was just very clear, [and told me,] 'It's going to look like that,'" she said in a June 4 episode of the health and wellness podcast SheMD, as quoted by People.
"All I care about is that I'm alive and I'm here for my baby. But putting that to the side, I'm like, one day, people will forget or not know that I had cancer, but they'll look at me and go, 'Oh, what a bad [private parts] job,'" she added.
Amy Schumer
Amy Schumer candidly spoke about getting fillers and having to take them out in 2021 because she “looked like #malificent [sic].”
“I tried getting fillers. Turns out I was already full. Thank God you can dissolve them I looked like #malificent [sic],” she joked.
The comedian also spoke about her liposuction and how she never thought she would get it until her 40s.
"I got liposuction. I never thought that I was going to do anything like that. Like when I would hear liposuction I was just like, that's so crazy to me, and I would say that I'm not ever going to do anything," she told Chelsea Handler on her podcast, Dear Chelsea.
"Cut to turning 40 after having a C-section," the star found herself struggling with endometriosis and other issues, which led to her deciding to get a liposuction.
"I got lipo, and I'm feeling really good," she said.
Donatella Versace
Pictures of Donatella Versace from today look drastically different from pictures of her from decades back.
“I don't even know what my natural colour is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women,” she said back in 2010. “For me, natural has something to do with vegetables.”
Mark Norfolk, clinical director for Transform Cosmetic Surgery, called the Italian fashion designer a “heavy Botox user” in 2014.
“I would expect her to have regular Botox treatments with her own non-surgical specialist,” he told Yahoo! Life. “If you look at her eyes, they appear half shut – you see this in women who have too much Botox in their forehead and filler in their cheeks.”
At the time, he claimed that she may have undergone a possible facelift and lip fillers.
“Donatella’s lips have been over done, so much so that they are no longer in sync with the rest of her facial features and are the first thing you look at,” he added. “Far too much product and there’s no definition in her top lip.”
Chrissy Teigen
Chrissy Teigen revealed that she has gone under the knife to have some fat removed from her cheeks and alter her facial appearance.
“I did that Dr Diamond buccal fat removal thing here,” she shared in an Instagram Story in 2021, flaunting her cheekbones. “And since I quit drinking, I’m really seeing the results.”
The model and cookbook author also mentioned having three breast surgeries done during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen" in February this year.
"I’ve had my [private parts] done three times," she said.
“I’ve had a lift, a put in, a take them out,” she added. “I don’t like them out.”
Britney Spears
Britney Spears admitted in 2023 that she didn’t like the effect Botox had on her face.
“I did Botox and I wasn’t really happy with it because it swelled up my forehead and therefore made the heaviness of my eyelids droop over and it literally looked like someone beat me up and to pay that much money to look like someone beat you up for the first two weeks… what’s the point?” the Circus singer said on Instagram last year.
Previously, the hitmaker said she has had lip injections and other “fun stuff.”
"I have no problem trying new brands. A doctor I see, [Beverly Hills plastic surgeon] Dr. [Raj] Kanodia, does fun stuff to me sometimes -- I've had lip injections before," she told InStyle in 2013.
Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs has been candid about his experiences with cosmetic surgeries and once told Vogue, “Once when I went to an event with a baseball cap, and people asked me, 'Why are you wearing a baseball cap?' And I said, 'Well, I just had a hair transplant.' People were amused and amazed that I answered.”
In 2021, the fashion designer also shared a picture on Instagram with his face wrapped in gauze as he recovered from a facelift.
Liam Payne
Fans of Liam Payne paused and blinked several times last year when they saw a red-carpet photo of him with a noticeably slimmed-down face.
Cosmetic surgery experts speculated over whether the former One Direction alum had any procedures done to his face.
“He didn’t look bad before, but his face, instead of looking soft and a little bit chubby, it looks model-ish and rugged,” celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Ramtin Kassir told Page Six, while Florida-based plastic surgeon Dr. Thomas Su said, “He definitely has a more masculine look with sharper chiseled facial features compared to how he looked previously.”
Ashley Tisdale
Ashley Tisdale said she had rhinoplasty when she was young to correct a deviated septum, causing serious health issues, and not for cosmetic reasons.
“After several doctor’s visits about my health issues, they also suggested shaving my ‘bump’ down. I was young and didn’t put much thought into it, so I decided, why not?” she wrote in a deeply personal blog post on her lifestyle website, Frenshe.
“In the aftermath and the hardest part, was not the recovery but the media who constantly tried to paint a picture of me as someone who didn’t like their appearance. I loved myself, but I was just a very unaware person at that time (as you all have seen my wardrobe choices LOL!). I was proud of who I was back then, and still proud now,” wrote the High School Musical actress, who has also mentioned she had breast implants in the past.
Heidi Montag
Heidi Montag sparked a flurry of headlines in 2009 after undergoing 10 cosmetic procedures in one single day, which included a brow lift, liposuction, rhinoplasty, chin reduction, breast augmentation, and facial fat injections, among others.
“At the time, my surgeon was like, ‘Oh, it will be a quick recovery, a few months.’ And it took me over a year to heal, so I could barely talk [with] my jaw,” the former Hills star said during an appearance on PageSix’s Virtual Reali-Tea podcast last year.
“I just had part of my chin sawed off. It was really a lot just dealing with that,” she added.
Julie Chen
Another celebrity entrant into the “no regrets” team in support of plastic surgery is Julie Chen, who said cosmetic surgery felt like “a form of healing.”
"You know how some people, when they get broken up with by a loved one, they get a revenge body? Well, I wanted to get a revenge face," she explained in her new audio memoir But First, God.
"It was all amazing and positive — a lot of support before and after, no regrets. And the good news is the public reaction wasn’t, like, 'What happened, you look different!' Because I did learn early on, you don’t want to look different. You want to look rested. So I think we achieved that," she told AARP.
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