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17 Celebrities Who Have Spoke Openly About Their Plastic Surgery

Gwyneth Paltrow on her Botox: “I looked like Joan Rivers!” - by Erin Cook
  • 03 Aug 2022
17 Celebrities Who Have Spoke Openly About Their Plastic Surgery

In Hollywood, looking good is paramount. Especially if you're in the acting or modelling game.

As a result of this pressure, plenty of A-listers opt for a nip and tuck from one of L.A.'s respected plastic surgeons. Some prefer to keep their procedures to themselves (which is fine—it's completely up to them) but other celebrities are less secretive.

From Botox to breast augmentation and other non-invasive cosmetic treatments, here are the celebrities who aren't afraid to admit they've been under the knife.

Jane Fonda

In an interview with Vogue about her new H&M Move campaign, Fonda spoke about ageing gracefully and what many don't know about undergoing plastic surgery.

"We all know a lot of women who are wealthy who’ve had all kinds of facelifts and things like that and they look terrible," she told the publication.

"So, I had a facelift and I stopped because I don’t want to look distorted. I’m not proud of the fact that I had [one]," she said, adding, "Now, I don’t know if I had it to do over, if I would do it. But I did it. I admit it, and then I just say, okay."

Back in 2020, Fonda famously swore off of cosmetic surgery completely, saying that she isn't going to "cut myself up anymore", as per ELLE Canada. And in her 2022 interview, she made it clear that she has no regrets about the decision.

"You can get addicted. Don’t keep doing it," she said. "A lot of women, I don’t know, they’re addicted to it. I stay moisturised, I sleep, I move, I stay out of the sun, and I have good friends who make me laugh."

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Jennifer Garner

In an interview with Harper’s BAZAAR, the outlet asked Jennifer Garner if she has any beauty advice that she wants to pass down to her daughters, Violet and Seraphina. Starting off with some general advice, she then specifically mentioned fillers, sharing that she hopes her daughters will hold off on them for as long as possible.

"My beauty advice is always the same: Look in the mirror less, obsess less, and look at the rest of the world to see what you could be using your time for instead," she told the publication. "We all look at our faces more than people used to, and it doesn’t do you any good. You obsess over changes or how to fix something on your face."

"My advice is to look at the mirror less and be cautious when it comes to injecting anything into your face," she continued. "Be very, very incredibly judicious and wait as absolutely long as possible to add anything. Don’t think that you’re 37 and you need to be shooting up your face. You don’t need to wear so much makeup or have such a constant blowout."

In 2020, Garner admitted to trying Botox in the past but not liking it.

"I’ve gotten Botox a few times and I don’t like it—I don’t want a frozen face," she said, as per BuzzFeed.

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Robin Wright

In an interview with The Telegraph in 2014, Wright credited her youthful glow to "sprinkles" of Botox. "Everybody f— does it," she said. "I suppose I can't say 'everybody' because I don't know for sure, but come on… It's just the tiniest sprinkle of Botox twice a year. I think most women do 10 units, but that freezes the face and you can't move it. This is just one unit, and it's just sprinkled here and there to take the edge off."

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Lisa Kudrow

The Friends star admitted she had a nose job at the age of 16 in an interview with The Saturday Evening Post. "I went from, in my mind, hideous, to not hideous. I did it the summer before going to a new high school," she said. "So there were plenty of people who wouldn't know how hideous I looked before. That was a good, good, good change."

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Sarah, Duchess of York

In an October 2019 interview with Femail, Duchess Sarah Ferguson discussed undergoing multiple cosmetic procedures, including organic fillers, vitamin injections, and a non-surgical 'thread' facelift. She also opened up about having Botox in the past, but that the popular procedure wasn't right for her, saying: "I don't like the frozen look. I'm so animated and I like to be myself. I don't like the thought of needles and am very glad if I look well and happy—I'm really happy to be open about what I've had done."

Celebrities who have spoken about their plastic surgery

Anna Faris

Faris had breast implants in a decision even she didn't see coming. "I was always a negative-A cup, so when I was 30, I was getting a divorce, I had just finished House Bunny, and I'd sold another movie, all of these new things were happening to me, so I got my breasts done. It was f-cking awesome," she told Women's Health magazine. "I never, ever thought I'd do something like that. I always thought plastic surgery was caving in to 'the man,' you know? It came down to a really simple thing: I wanted to fill out a bikini."

Celebrities who have spoken about their plastic surgery

Tyra Banks

In her book, Banks revealed she had a nose job in the interest of promoting women not judging one another for cosmetic enhancement. "I had bones in my nose that were growing and itching," she wrote. "I could breathe fine, but I added cosmetic surgery. I admit it! Fake hair, and I did my nose. I feel I have a responsibility to tell the truth."

Celebrities who have spoken about their plastic surgery

Nicole Kidman

When it comes to Botox, Kidman had similar feelings to Gwyneth Paltrow. "I did try Botox, unfortunately, but I got out of it and now I can finally move my face again," she told Huffington Post.

Celebrities who have spoken about their plastic surgery

Chrissy Teigen

The always-candid model told Byrdie that she'd had her forehead, nose and lips done, saying: "Everything about me is fake except my cheeks. Fake, fake, fake."

Celebrities who have spoken about their plastic surgery

Christie Brinkley

Speaking to PEOPLE, Brinkley recently opened up about her decision have non-invasive procedures on her frown lines, neck and décolletage. "I'm almost 64, at a certain point, you might need a little something extra," she said. "If you can have something done to feel more confident and better about yourself, then you feel like your face matches your spirit—and my spirit is enthusiastic and energetic."

Celebrities who have spoken about their plastic surgery

Jen Atkin

Kim Kardashian's hair stylist and founder of Ouai hair care products, Jen Atkin, recently opened up about her nose job on Instagram. While wishing Nicole Richie a happy birthday she said, "Thank you for loving me thru my old nose and eyebrow plucking phase." She's also shared snaps of her pre-surgery face on her Instagram account.

"Nose were the days," Atkin captioned this throwback shot of her before-and-after surgery transformation.

Celebrities who have spoken about their plastic surgery

Jesinta Franklin

Model Jesinta Franklin has spoken openly about her breast augmentation surgery, which she had done when she was a teenager. "My message to all women is to make an educated decision when it comes to any cosmetic procedure," she told Now to Love. "It's a very personal choice and there are lots of things to take into consideration before moving forward."

Celebrities who have spoken about their plastic surgery

Victoria Beckham

In 2014, Beckham told Allure magazine that while she once had breast implants, they've since been removed. She said she decided to revert back to her original size after seeing a picture where her breast were "up around" her "neck".

Celebrities who have spoken about their plastic surgery

Courteney Cox

While Cox hasn't opened up about the details of what she's had done, during an episode of Running Wild with Bear Grylls, she said: "I have done things that I regret, and luckily they're things that dissolve and go away. So, um, that's good, because it's not always been my best look."

Celebrities who have spoken about their plastic surgery

Kourtney Kardashian

Kourtney Kardashian also had breast implants young. During an interview on Nightline, she said, "I have had breast implants, but it's so funny 'cause it's not a secret, I could care less."

Celebrities who have spoken about their plastic surgery

Gwyneth Paltrow

In the past, Paltrow tried Botox on for size, but it wasn't for her. "[I'll] try anything—except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy," she told Harper's BAZAAR US. "I looked like Joan Rivers!"

Celebrities who have spoken about their plastic surgery

Melanie Griffith 

Griffith told Porter magazine she wasn't aware of how far she'd gone with her plastic surgery until other people started pointing it out. "No, I didn't [realise] until people started saying, 'Oh my God, what has she done?!" she said. "I was so hurt. I went to a different doctor, and he started dissolving all of this s--t that this other woman doctor had put in."

Celebrities who have spoken about their plastic surgery

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