While some prefer to fly under the radar when they get plastic surgery, celebrities including Denise Richards, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Jessi Ngatikaura and Heidi Montag keep it candid.
After getting some of her enhancements reversed in 2013, Montag exclusively told Us Weekly 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. “I was like, ‘Well it’s not really a choice because now it’s affecting my health.’”
Ngatikaura opened up in January 2026 about spending “$25,000” to achieve her desired look, while Richards revealed her facelift results in March of that year.
Scroll down to see which celebrities have spoken about their plastic surgery experiences:
Denise Richards
Denise Richards revealed in March 2026 that she got a facelift, showing off her dramatic before-and-after photos via Instagram. Her surgeon, Dr. Ben Talei later told Inside Edition that he performed, “A face and neck lift, a temporal brow restoration, where I actually reset the upper third of the face, which comes down, back into its place.”
He added that he “recontoured the eyes” during Richards procedure, which lasted more than four hours, and did “a cupid corner lift, where we put an incision on the side of the mouth to help neutralize it, and make the side of the mouth look sexier and younger again.”
Jessi Ngatikaura
Jessi Ngatikaura revealed she spent $25,000 on an upper and lower blepharoplasty and fat grafting in her face in February 2026. One month prior, she exclusively told Us she was still “healing” from the procedures and is “done” with plastic surgery. “I’m just going to let things settle and I’ll be good,” she explained. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star previously opened up about getting a breast augmentation, a labiaplasty and a nose job.
Simone Biles
Simone Biles shared that she got a breast augmentation in November 2025. “We decided under the muscles was gonna be the best option for me based on my inspiration photos to get the most natural look,” she explained via TikTok, sharing that she got 310cc with “high-profile, extra filled [and] silicone” implants.
Barbara Corcoran
In 2025, Barbara Corcoran revealed she’s had “three facelifts” through the years, a “lower eyelid skin pinch,” an “eye lift,” a “neck lift” and a “brow lift.”
Kris Jenner
Kris Jenner got candid about going under the knife in August 2025, sharing that she got her second facelift. “I had a facelift about 15 years ago, so it was time for a refresh,” she told Vogue.
“I decided to do this facelift because I want to be the best version of myself, and that makes me happy. Just because you get older, it doesn’t mean you should give up on yourself,” Jenner added.
Ariana Grande
“Positions” singer Ariana Grande 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.”
Bette Midler
“I’ve had some tailoring done to my face,” Hocus Pocus star Bette Midler revealed while accepting the Distinguished Collaborator Award at the February 2023 Costume Designers Guild Awards.
Julia Fox
In an interview with Elle published in February 2023, Julia Fox 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.”
Lilly Ghalichi
The Shahs of Sunset star Lilly Ghalichi 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.”
Julie Bowen
“I finally got the stomach fixed,” the Modern Family alum Julie Bowen 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.”
Meghan King
“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,)” Meghan King 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.”
Bethenny Frankel
The Real Housewives of New York City alum Bethenny Frankel 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.
Tori Spelling
Beverly Hills, 90210 alum Tori Spelling 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.”
Kim Kardashian
Skims founder Kim Kardashian 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.”
Lala Kent
In June 2022, the Vanderpump Rules star Lala Kent 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.”
Amy Schumer
In January 2022, comedian Amy Schumer revealed that she had liposuction surgery after welcoming her son, Gene, with then-husband Chris Fischer. “I feel good. Finally. It’s been a journey thanks for helping me get my strength back @seckinmd (endo) @jordanternermd (lipo),” she captioned several photos of herself in a one-piece bathing suit at the beach, noting that she now weighed 170 pounds. “Never thought i would do anything but talk to me after your uterus doesn’t contract for 2.5 years and you turn 40. @paulvincent22 vickie Lee (acupuncture) my girl Nicole from the tox my friends and fam. Let’s go!” Two months later, Schumer explained why she decided to share her plastic surgery with her followers. “Everybody on camera is doing this s–t, I just wanted to be real about it,” the New York native told The Hollywood Reporter in March 2022. “It’s not about needing to be slamming, because I’ve never been famous for being hot, but I’d reached a place where I was tired of looking at myself in the mirror.”
Chrissy Teigen
Chrissy Teigen 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.”
Rachel Bloom
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creator Rachel Bloom 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.
Marc Jacobs
The fashion designer Marc Jacobs 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.
Tamra Judge
The Real Housewives of Orange County star Tamra Judge 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.”
Khloe Kardashian
Khloe Kardashian 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.”
Cassie Randolph
In May 2021, the Bachelor alum Cassie Randolph 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.”
Jana Kramer
The One Tree Hill alum Jana Kramer 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.”
Jessie James Decker
Jessie James Decker 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.”
Dolores Catania
“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.
Mina Starsiak Hawk
HGTV star Mina Starsiak Hawk 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.
Leah McSweeney
The Real Housewives of New York City star Leah McSweeney 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.”
Madison LeCroy
Southern Charm star Madison LeCroy 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.
Larissa Dos Santos Lima
The 90 Day Fiance alum Larissa Dos Santos Lima 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.”
Ashley Tisdale
In August 2020, Ashley 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.”
Sonja Morgan
The Real Housewives of New York City alum Sonja Morgan 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.’”
Gia Giudice
The daughter of Teresa Giudice and ex-husband Joe Giudice announced via Instagram in July 2020 that she got a nose job. Gia Guidice 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 it I 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!!”
Chrissy Teigen
The Cravings cookbook author Chrissy Teigen 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.
Angelina Pivarnick
Reality star Angelina Pivarnick 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.
Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson revealed in her January 2020 memoir, Open Book, that she had two tummy tucks in 2015. “I wanted to get rid of the stretch marks and loose skin left sagging from my back-to-back pregnancies,” she wrote. “I was so ashamed of my body at this point that I wouldn’t let Eric see me without a white T-shirt on.”She suffered complications after the second procedure, however, and stayed in a hospital for nine days. “I got an infection — colitis — and was vomiting so much I thought I was going to bust my sutures. … Doctors talked seriously about me needing a blood transfusion.”
Teresa Giudice
Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice 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.”
Dina Manzo
The Real Housewives of New Jersey alum Dina Manzo 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.”
Sharon Osbourne
On the season 10 premiere of The Talk on September 9, 2019, cohost Sharon Osbourne 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.
Cardi B
Cardi B 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*** 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***ing 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.”
Vicki Gunvalson
From a rhinoplasty to a chin implant to Botox, The Real Housewives of Orange County star Vicki Gunvalson 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.’”
Courteney Cox
“You have no idea because it’s gradual, until you go, ‘Oh, s***. This doesn’t look right.’ And it’s worse in pictures than in real life,” the Friends alum Courteney Cox 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.”
Kylie Jenner
In July 2016, Kylie Jenner 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.”
Jane Fonda
“I’m two years older than my dad was when he died,” Jane 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.’”
Iggy Azalea
In 2015, rapper Iggy Azalea, 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.”
Ariel Winter
The Modern Family star Ariel Winter 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.”
Jane Seymour
Actress Jane Seymour 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.”
Julie Chen Moonves
Journalist Julie Chen Moonves 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.”
Kelly Rowland
Kelly 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.”
Heidi Montag
The Hills alum Heidi Montag 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.”
Ashlee Simpson
Ashlee Simpson 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 Us 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.”
