We need to talk about Kris Jenner’s face. In Paris recently, Jenner quietly soft-launched what appears to be one of her most polished looks yet. The 69-year-old matriarch of reality television’s first family stepped out looking not just radiant – but almost unrecognisably youthful.
Her slicked-back hair, oversized blazer, and sunglasses were classic Kris. But the porcelain-like cheeks, taut jawline, and glow-from-within skin were, well, new. Very new. So new, in fact, that some fans mistook her for daughter Kim Kardashian.
“She definitely saw Lindsay Lohan’s surgeon!! That facelift did her some good justice,” wrote one Instagram user. Another added: “I thought that was Kim! She looks INCREDIBLE 😍🔥🙌.”
And just like that, Jenner’s fresh face became the latest talking point in the ongoing debate around ageing, aesthetic culture, and beauty standards in the influencer age.
What Procedure Did Kris Jenner Have?
To be clear, Kris Jenner isn’t doing anything the rest of Hollywood isn’t already doing – she’s just doing it better. At least according to the internet.
Speculation ranges from a surgical facelift to more subtle interventions. Whatever the method, it’s clear that Jenner’s refresh has been meticulously planned. And now, we know by who.
A rep for Jenner told Page Six: “We can confirm that Dr. Steven Levine did Kris Jenner’s recent work.”
We weren’t given any further details on exactly what procedures Dr. Levine performed on Jenner, but you can bet we immediately began googling the New York City-based surgeon.
According to his website, “Dr. Levine, a board-certified plastic surgeon is known for his unique ability to customize the most contemporary surgical techniques. Facelift, rhinoplasty, eyelid rejuvenation (lower blepharoplasty and upper blepharoplasty), body contouring, and breast augmentation and reduction.”
For a woman whose entire brand revolves around maintaining image – not just her own, but her family’s – this glow-up is business strategy as much as beauty philosophy. Which raises a bigger question – why are we still surprised when older women in the public eye refuse to age on anyone else’s terms?
The Kardashian Effect – And The Cultural Whiplash It Causes
Of course, this isn’t Kris Jenner’s first time in the beauty crosshairs. The Kardashian-Jenner family has long been accused of moving the aesthetic goalposts. Whether it’s the rise of Brazilian Butt Lifts or the arrival of Ozempic-thin red-carpet silhouettes (cue Kim on the carpet at the Met Gala in 2024), there’s no denying that the family has influenced what women think they should look like.
Few have spoken more openly about this than British actress and activist Jameela Jamil, who’s previously called out the Kardashians for promoting unrealistic body ideals. From waist trainers to appetite-suppressing lollipops, their influence isn’t just aspirational – it’s commercial.
Speaking on Rylan Clark’s How To Be… podcast, she pointed out the media’s complicity – and ours.
“We’re the ones who click on these celebrities, we’re the ones who give them algorithmic attention, we’re the ones who buy the magazines that have them on the cover. So the media is only ever going to supply what we demand.”
In short, if Kris Jenner is the poster girl for ageless beauty, it’s because we made her one.
The Psychology Of Perfect Faces
There’s something unnerving about the way all celebrity faces seem to be converging into one… lifted, sculpted, poreless. It’s as though there’s a single AI-generated template for what “good” looks like – and everyone’s chasing it. Jamil put it bluntly:
“Even if [celebrities] are different ages, different heights, different ethnicities, they’ve all got the same bodies – so that must be the correct body. And [people think] there’s something wrong with me because I don’t look like that.”
Now it’s not just bodies, but faces too.
The result is a kind of aesthetic homogeneity that can be deeply damaging, especially to younger audiences. We consume these images daily, often without question, and then internalise them as goals. If even 69-year-old women are expected to look 40, what chance do the rest of us have?
Where Do We Go From Here?
Kris Jenner’s face is her business – and she’s running it well. But as the beauty world reacts to her new look, it’s worth asking why we still find transformations like hers so jarring. Is it envy? Admiration? Or is it something more unsettling – a collective anxiety about ageing, invisibility, and the lengths we’re willing to go to avoid both?
If Jenner’s glow-up proves anything, it’s that the beauty standard hasn’t softened. If anything, it’s become more demanding – youth, but not too obvious; tweaks, but not too extreme; perfection, but still natural.
For many women, that’s not just unrealistic – it’s exhausting.
So yes, Kris Jenner looks great. But maybe the more interesting question isn’t what she’s had done – but why we still expect women, especially famous ones, to look untouched by time. And more urgently, what it costs us to keep playing along.
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