Celebrities Speak Out About Plastic Surgery: Before, After Pics (2024)

It’s often thought that celebrities who’ve had plastic surgery will go to any lengths to hide their secret, but stars from Ronnie Ortiz-Magro to Courteney Cox have been candid about their experiences going under the knife.Some celebrities have even shared their plastic surgery nightmares. Heidi Montag, for example, developed health problems due to her multiple surgeries. After getting some of her enhancements reversed in 2013, Montag told Us that she struggled with the decision.“I just didn't want to go back under surgery because it was just so traumatic and something I never — I'm so sick of being the surgery girl. It was the last thing I wanted to do: re-bring that all up. It's just been such a nightmare in my life,” she said. But she realized she had to do it: “I was like, ‘Well it's not really a choice because now it's affecting my health.’”Scroll through to see all the celebrities who have spoken about their plastic surgery experiences:

The “Positions” singer opened up about getting “a ton of lip filler over the years and Botox” during a beauty secrets video for Vogue in September 2023.

Grande teared up as she explained that the treatments, which she stopped getting in 2018, made her feel like she was “hiding.”

She continued: "I, over the years, used makeup as a disguise or as something to hide behind. That can be so beautiful at times, and I still do have love for it and appreciation for it."

Grande added that she supports people doing “whatever” makes them “feel beautiful,” but said that she personally wants “to see my well-earned cry lines and smile lines.”

"I've had some tailoring done to my face," the Hocus Pocus star revealed while accepting the Distinguished Collaborator Award at the February 2023 Costume Designers Guild Awards.

In an interview with Elle published in February 2023, the Uncut Gems actress admitted to previously getting liposuction but planned to hold off on any new procedures for the time being. "I’m, like, saggy — like, things are not sitting the way they used to," she told the outlet. "But it’s like, I am not gonna do a damn thing about it."

The Shahs of Sunset star revealed in January 2023 that she got a nose job. “Most people would hide this, some maybe even deny this," she wrote via Instagram. “My nose was very cute, but I couldn’t breathe and it was crooked and collapsed a little. I’m so beyond impressed. … I can breathe! It’s straight!” The Bravo personality added that she wanted to be transparent about her surgery in case it helps others who were “unhappy with a previous procedure.”

“I finally got the stomach fixed,” the Modern Family alum revealed during a January 2023 appearance on The View. “Finally, after all these years. [Pregnancy with my sons] ripped it open, the twins just ripped it. And I said, ‘As soon as Modern Family is done … I’ll get it fixed.’ But it was 11 years! So 11 years later, we wrapped on Friday and Monday they went in and they do you like a sneaker.”

"I’ve always been outspoken about any enhancements I’ve had (this time I wanted the fullness in my breasts back and a little cleavage, and since I was under anesthesia I opted to tweak the tip of my nose for a minor adjustment,)" the former reality star wrote via Instagram in January 2023. "My chest is so wide so it always made me feel masculine on the outside but I felt so feminine on the inside and so decided to do this thing called ‘cosmetic enhancing.’"

King added: "I ask myself if that aligns with the message of authenticity I want to always send and my answer is, yes, I think it does."

The Real Housewives of New York City alum took to social media in November 2022 to open up about procedures she’s had done in the past — and reveal that she “eventually” wants more in the future. Frankel admitted via Instagram to getting Botox "once or twice a year, commenting that it "drastically changed" her face. She also had a breast lift 15 years ago and has only once gotten a filler.

The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum underwent breast revision surgery during a July 2022 episode of her @Home With Tori series, in which a plastic surgeon removed and replaced her existing implants nearly 20 years later.

“I do need to get them redone,” Spelling told her eldest daughter, Stella, whom she shares with Dean McDermott, in the episode. “They’re expired, recalled — they’re 20 years past due.”

She later told the cameras of her consultation: “They pick them up and measure where it should be and he’s like, ‘They’re falling here, they should be here.’ My scar for my implants [before] were under my nipple, like, my nipple, the bottom part. This scar will be on the top part of the nipple and that’s how he pulls it up. No anchor scar.”

The Skims founder said in July 2022 that she hasn't altered her face with many cosmetic procedures, despite what critics might think. “A little bit of Botox. But I’ve chilled, actually,” she told Allure, explaining what she's had done. “I’ve never had eyelash extensions. I’ve never done anything. I have a drop of mascara on today. I’ve never filled my cheeks. I’ve never filled my lips.”

The Kardashians star previously admitted to getting butt injections, but she claimed they were for psoriasis treatment rather than her appearance. “I went to go get a cortisone shot in my butt,” she explained during a 2016 Instagram Live. “One of my neighbors was a dermatologist at Cedars. I go in there and he’s like, ‘There’s a one in a billion chance that you will get a huge indent in your butt.’ Of course I get a huge indent on my butt."

In June 2022, the Vanderpump Rules star underwent a breast augmentation following her split from Randall Emmett. The Give Them Lala author previously said that she wanted to look like herself again after giving birth to daughter Ocean in March 2021. “By the sound of it, it may sound like I’m getting my boobs done for men, but it’s getting my boobs done for me,” Kent explained in a January 2022 episode of her podcast, noting that she wanted her implants to reflect her pre-pregnancy body. “They were massive and I loved them.”

The model revealed in September 2021 that she underwent a procedure to remove fat from her face. “I did that Dr. Diamond buccal fat removal thing here,” she explained in an Instagram Story video, pointing to her cheek. “And since I quit drinking, I’m really seeing the results, and I like it. Yeah, I did it, what?” She captioned the post, “No shame in my dr diamond game.”

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgery, buccal fat removal aims to “thin the cheeks, specifically in the area of the cheek hollows.”

The Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creator spoke about her desire to get a breast reduction in April 2021, just weeks after giving birth to her first child.

“Capturing myself pre-breast reduction in @sleepoverbyesther,” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “(Oh yeah btw I’m probably gonna get a breast reduction soon and I don’t want to hear any man’s gross thoughts on that decision right now and since there’s no way to block comments from just men on this post I’m turning off comments for everyone to teach men a lesson).”

Four months later, the actress announced that she had the surgery. “I did it!” she captioned two photos in August 2021, one of which showed Bloom at the hospital with markings on her chest pre-surgery. The second snap was of the comedian bandaged up as she started recovery.

The fashion designer went under the knife for a facelift in July 2021, taking to Instagram the following day to show his face wrapped in bandages. “Yesterday,” he captioned his post, adding hashtags #f*ckgravity and #livelovelift.

“I started many years ago,” Jacobs told Vogue in July 2021 about his decision to get plastic surgery. “I mean, there have been so many things that I’ve been transparent about. Like, 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.”

“But, honestly, what’s the difference,” he continued. “I’m not covering my face. I’m not wearing sunglasses. I’m not incognito. I’ve got some scars around my ears, and my face is swollen, and I have a bruised neck, but I’m still posting on Instagram. I don’t care. I don’t even see it as an effort to be transparent. I’m doing what I normally do, which is I’m living my life and sharing it with anybody who is interested.”


A week post-op, the fashion designer revealed “very happy” with the results and is in the process of recovery.

The Real Housewives of Orange County alum revealed in June 2021 that she’d decided to get her breast implants removed due to “autoimmune issues.” She revealed via an Instagram Story set to ‘Nsync’s “Bye Bye Bye” that she was going under the knife to take them out.

The following month, the reality star offered an update on her healing process. “Implants & capsules removed. Feeling tired & a little sore as expected. I’m pretty sure Not working-out will be the hardest part for me,” she shared via Instagram.

She was focusing on “happy thoughts” while waiting for swelling to go down. “ I’m hoping I will continue to see health improvements as the weeks go on 😊 I Just got home from my check up with @dr_ambe and everything looks great.”

The reality star came clean about the work she’d had done during the second part of the Keeping Up With the Kardashians reunion in June 2021.

“For me, everyone says, ‘Oh my gosh, she’s had her third face transplant.’ But I’ve had one nose job — Dr. Raj Kinodia — and everyone gets so upset, like, ‘Why don’t I talk about it?'” she told host Andy Cohen. “No one’s ever asked me. You’re the first person in an interview that’s ever asked me about my nose. I’ve done, sure, injections — not really Botox. I’ve responded horribly to Botox.”

In May 2021, the Bachelor alum opened up about getting fillers and Botox in the past.

"I'm not afraid to be open and honest about this kind of stuff because I don't really care to not be. Personally, I like to keep it as natural as possible — err on the side of less is more, but also, to each his own," Randolph explained in a video uploaded to her YouTube channel. "I feel like there's no point in worrying about what one person chooses to do or doesn't choose to do. Do whatever you want to do."

The One Tree Hill alum gave her social media followers a glimpse at her breast augmentation surgery journey in March 2021.

“I want to be open about WHY. First off, because ‘I’ want to. That right there should be enough, but I feel like I need to explain the ‘I’ part," she wrote in an Instagram post at the time.

One month later, she updated fans about how she was healing from the process while also going through her split from Mike Caussin. "It's unfortunate timing healing while going through that," she said via her Instagram Stories at the time. "But yeah, two more weeks and I'm totally cleared."

The former reality star surprised fans when she showed off her breast augmentation in May 2021.

"I treated myself ... to new boobies! After deciding we were done having babies I was finally ready to go big or go home ha!" Decker revealed via Instagram at the time. "I had breast reduction and lift a couple years ago when they were hanging down to my belly button but with having such elastic skin and not being happy with the size I decided to do it. They were so big and perky before children and I wanted them back ... plus some."

Decker was "super happy" with the results. "I feel great," she concluded. "I felt like a brand new woman when I was trying on our new @kittenish swim and loving the way they finally filled out the tops like I wanted it’s not for everybody but it was certainly for me! I always say, you do you and do what makes you feel confident and sexy. #YOLO."

“It's not a matter of what I needed, it's what I wanted. I'm not about what somebody else thinks I need in my life. I've been through enough,” Catania told Us of boyfriend David Principe's reaction to her plastic surgery during a March 2021 episode of the “Getting Real with the Housewives” podcast.

“He really was angry. He was so mad at me and he didn't let up on it. I let him be mad for a little while and then I had to say, ‘Listen, you either live with it or we just have to move on.’ There has been some stress, family stress fractures in the relationship.”

The reality star admitted to going tummy tuck surgery, breast augmentation, face lift, liposuction and a Brazilian butt lift.

The HGTV star got honest about her decision to get a tummy tuck, liposuction and breast implants. "I wasn't happy with my body and what I could accomplish just working out and didn't feel like myself," the Good Bones host told Us in February 2021.

The Real Housewives of New York City star revealed in December 2020 that she got a breast augmentation and lift. “As I lay here for days recovering from my Xmas boob lift and augmentation (yes it’s a skims velour suit and it feels like heaven) all I can wonder is how the f the kardashians find the time to recover from all their work,” she captioned an Instagram selfie. “The other thing is...I can’t wait to show off the new and improved girls.”

McSweeney previously divulged in September 2020 that she had rhinoplasty and septoplasty. “I could not be happier,” she told fans via her Instagram Stories of her nose job. “I’ve been wanting one for so freaking long and now I can also breathe, which is great.”

The Southern Charm charm underwent a breast augmentation in October 2020, and she revealed her results the following month. “Blooming,” she captioned a pic, in which she posed in a low-cut light blue crop top.

The 90 Day Fiance alum revealed a new face and body in September 2020 after undergoing a reported $72,000 worth of cosmetic surgery procedures including a nose job, liposuction and breast and butt augmentation. "I lose weight. I did butt to make it bigger. I did botox. I did my nose. I did my lips. I did my cheekbones. I did my chin," she said on as episode of 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After? earlier in the year. "I am a new woman and I feel very happy."

In August 2020, Tisdale revealed that she previously had a breast augmentation procedure to remove her implants in the winter of 2019. “This is probably the most personal post I’ve ever shared. As you know, I’ve been very open about my mental health journey and feel that this is equally important. Years ago I underwent breast enhancement surgery,” she shared via Instagram. “Prior to the surgery, I constantly felt my body was less than, and thought this change would make me feel more whole and more secure about myself. And for a short period of time…it did.”

The former Disney star added, “But little by little I began struggling with minor health issues that just were not adding up — food sensitivities as well as gut issues (full story on [my blog] @frenshe) that I thought could be caused by my implants. So, last winter I decided to undergo implant removal.”

The Real Housewives of New York City star unveiled her before and after photos in July 2020, and revealed she had a face lift and neck lift after she wrapped season 12 of the Bravo series. “People thought I was nuts because it was so subtle. But not to me,” Morgan wrote via Instagram. “It was a no-brainer – gravity had taken its toll, I was also exhausted and I needed a ‘pick me up.’”

The daughter of Teresa and Joe Giudice announced via Instagram in July 2020 that she got a nose job. Gia was 19 at the time of the procedure.

“Yes, I got a nose job. Yes, I’m swollen,” she wrote. “Thank you so much, @drtobiasnyc. I’m absolutely in love with itI am an adult now, this has been an insecurity of mine for a while and I’ve never been happier and so comfortable in my own skin!!”

The Cravings cookbook author owned up to getting her breasts done when she was a young Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model — and totally regretting it. "I did my boobs when I was about 20 years old," Teigen told Glamour U.K. in March 2020. "It was more of a swimsuit thing. I thought, if I'm going to be posing, laid on my back, I want them to be perky! But then you have babies and they fill up with milk and deflate and now I am screwed." The always candid Lip Sync Battle cohost kept her plastic surgery revelation lighthearted, teasing the big news from her Glamour cover story on Instagram. "Talk about a weight lifted off my chest!!!" she joked.

The reality star revealed on Instagram in February 2020 that she got a boob job, praising the same plastic surgeon former Jersey Shore: Family Vacation costar Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi used for her 2016 breast enhancement. “My boobies are my fave part of my body now,” Pivarnick raved in the post.

The Real Housewives of New Jersey star revealed in January 2020 that she had a second breast augmentation nearly 12 years after her first. “I believe it’s important to always stand strong and feel like your best most confident self,” she wrote, noting that she “was very nervous to re-do my breasts” but “could not be happier with the results.”

The Real Housewives of New Jersey alum revealed she got a nose job after fans called her out for looking different in December 2019.

“When the thing on the center of your face changes you’re gonna look different lol. Two years ago, I got my nose fixed,” she wrote at the time. “I hate fillers plus they’re so damn expensive… @drghavami likes to say ‘keep em guessing’ so I’ll leave it at that. I had a really hard time adjusting to my new nose especially the first year. Although my Dr is amazing at what he does, it did change my overall look. I had a prominent Italian rounded nose and now I had this perfectly proportioned petite nose. It’s a big adjustment especially when you live with the same face for 45 yrs.”

Manzo added that she loves Botox.

“I’m really proud of how I take care of myself,” she wrote. “I eat right, work out and work on my mind & spirit just as much if not more. That helps you stay youthful & glowy the MOST.”

On the season 10 premiere of The Talk on September 9, 2019, the host shared that she’d gotten a facelift in August. “It was five weeks today that I had my operation,” she said. “I had my neck done, my jowls … He kind of pulled it from the top of my head and put an elastic band in it. But everything was just lifted up. So it looks more refreshed.” And though she said she was in a bit of discomfort, she found it worth the results: “You can’t complain [about pain] when you wanted to do it!” Osbourne, who has talked about previous cosmetic procedures too, had announced in June 2019 that she planned to get the procedure done over her summer break.

The singer is open about most things — including her plastic surgery past. After she welcomed her daughter, Kulture, in July 2018, she revealed she’d gotten a breast lift and liposuction and defended the choice in a May 2019 Instagram Live session. “Listen, I do whatever the f--k I want to do with my body,” she said. “Let me tell you something, bitch. I don’t have the time of day like you do. Like, my job as an entertainer is a 24-hour job, bro. So no, I don’t have time to work out and I wanted specific things that I know that no matter how much I work out ― is not get fixed… Like my boobs, no matter how much I work out, they were not gonna lift themselves. So yeah, I had to get f--ng surgery.” But after she was forced to cancel several shows due to health complications, the “Bodak Yellow” rapper — who’d previously revealed she had once gotten illegal butt injections — realized it wasn’t worth it. "I been working out for the past 2 weeks cause b**ch I ain’t getting surgery again:joy::joy::joy:," Cardi tweeted in June 2019. "But let me tell you I haven’t got a headache ever since."

In May 2019, the Jersey Shore star revealed thathe had undergone liposuction to enhance his six-pack after welcoming his daughter, Ariana, the year before. “I’ve always been a workout fanatic, and I’ve always been in shape, but it also takes a lot of hard work to stay in shape,” he said in a video on the show The Doctors. “A year ago to the day, my life completely changed. I had a little baby girl. She’s like my guardian angel, and now I can’t spend two to three hours every day in the gym like I used to.” His surgeon Dr. Christopher Khorsandi described the procedure as “laser high-definition liposuction of the abdomen.” The result? “We’re going to be able to get that area in between each of his abs completely defined so that he actually has a six-pack for many, many years to come,” the pro noted.

From a rhinoplasty to a chin implant to Botox, The Real Housewives of Orange County star has never been shy about the multiple facial procedures she’s gotten over the years. In July 2018, Gunvalson told Us Weekly that the eyelid blepharoplasty and face-lift she had just gotten would be her last procedures. “Put a fork in it, I’m done!” she said. The reality star also had many of her fillers removed at the same time. “I had a lot of fillers in my face and I didn’t feel like it was me anymore,” she told Us. “I had too many doctors, too many different times say, ‘Let’s do this, let’s do that, let’s fill here, let’s do Voluma, let’s do Sculptra,’ and by the time I was done I looked in the mirror and was like ‘I don’t even look like myself.’”

She's had her fill of fillers! "You have no idea because it's gradual, until you go, 'Oh, s--t. This doesn't look right.' And it's worse in pictures than in real life," the Friends alum told New Beauty magazine in 2017. "I've had all my fillers dissolved. I'm as natural as I can be. I feel better because I look like myself. I think that I now look more like the person that I was. I hope I do."

In July 2016, the beauty maven finally admitted she relied on fillers to make her pout plump. Asked by her sister Kim Kardashian in an Allure interview if she had any beauty regrets, Jenner answered, "Well, I definitely made my lips a little too big at one point." After her big sis agreed, Jenner continued, “I got excited and felt like I needed to do a lot. And then you guys were like, 'Kylie, you need to chill.' And then I had to go back and have it fixed, and it was a crazy process. Thank God I didn't end up on Botched."

“I’m two years older than my dad was when he died,” Fonda told The Guardian in 2015 of her actor father, Henry, who starred in 1981’s On Golden Pond. “Katharine Hepburn was three years younger than I am now when she made that movie. People looked older back then. I wish I were brave enough to not do plastic surgery but I think I bought myself a decade.”

In August 2022, the Grace and Frankie alum opened up about her regrets when it came to surgery.

"I had a facelift and I stopped because I don't want to look distorted," the Book Club star admitted during an interview with Vogue. "I'm not proud of the fact that I had [one]. I don't know if I had to do it over if I would do it. But I did it. I admit it, and then I just say, ‘OK, you can get addicted. Don't keep doing it.’"

In 2015, the rapper, who had already shared that she’d had a breast augmentation, confirmed to Seventeen that she had gotten a nose job. "I'm not denying it. Denying it is lame,” she told the mag. "I don't think you should be ashamed if you made a change to yourself, which is why I've spoken about the changes I've made, like with my breasts." But she also noted that choosing surgery is not an easy road. “Plastic surgery is an emotional journey," the Grammy winner noted. "It's no easy feat to live with your flaws and accept yourself — and it's no easy feat to change yourself. Either way you look at it, it's a tough journey. There are things that I didn't like about myself that I changed through surgery. There are other things I dislike but I've learned to accept."

The Modern Family star got a breast reduction at age 17, which she’s said helped ease back pain and increase her confidence. "On [red carpets], I just said to myself, 'You have to do your best to look confident and stand up tall, and make yourself look as good as you can in these photos,' because everyone is going to see them," she told Glamour. "I definitely seemed confident; I'm an actress, that's what we do. But on the inside, I wasn't feeling so happy."

The actress relies on diet and exercise rather than surgeons to keep her eternally youthful looks. “I tried Botox once and hated it,” she told ET in 2014. “It was just the worst thing ever.” But she made clear that she’s not against all enhancements, admitting she had breast enhancement surgery to replace “what the kids ate.”

The journalist revealed on The Talk in 2013 that, after getting racist feedback from a boss when she was 25 years old, she had surgery to make her “Asian eyes” look bigger.

“I was working as a local news reporter in Dayton, Ohio," the television personality said. "I asked my news director over the holidays, 'If anchors want to take vacations, could I fill in?' And he said, 'You will never be on this anchor desk, because you're Chinese."

She continued: "He said, 'Let's face it, Julie, how relatable are you to our community? How big of an Asian community do we have in Dayton?' On top of that, because of your heritage, because of your Asian eyes, sometimes I've noticed when you're on camera and you're interviewing someone, you look disinterested, you look bored.'"

She received similar feedback when searching for an agent, and decided to have an eye procedure. Though she was conflicted about her decision at the time, the ambitious star doesn’t have regrets. "No one's more proud of being Chinese than I am," she said after her revelation. "Every decision I've made … it got [me] to where we are today, and I'm not going to look back."

Rowland took the decision to get a breast enhancement very seriously. “I wanted to get breast implants when I was 18, but my mom and Beyoncé's mom told me to really think about it first,” the Destiny’s Child alum told Shape magazine in 2013. “I took their advice and waited 10 years.” Even once she decided, she proceeded carefully. “Once I felt ready, I tried on padded bras and walked around in them to see how it would feel,” she added. “You have to know what you're getting, no matter what type of surgery it is.”

The Hills star famously underwent 10 procedures in one day in late 2009, including breast implants to bring her to an F cup, a brow lift, a nose job update, lipo on her stomach and thighs and a butt augmentation, and shared the news and photos in March 2010. Three years later, she had big regrets — and health problems as a result. “I just didn't realize what I was really signing up for,” the reality star told Us in 2013, after having some of the work reversed. “It just sounds so minor when you have a surgeon describing so much of it to you, like, ‘OK, great, a little of this, a little of that.’ You're not told the recovery time and the mental strain that it will put on you, and the long term.”

The star has never explicitly confirmed the nose job she is widely believed to have had in the spring of 2006. However, she more or less told UsWeekly in the years after that her bridge had, indeed, been surgically slimmed. “As long as people have two eyes,” Simpson told Us, “you probably know the answer.”