Former child actress Amanda Bynes, now 37, has taken to social media to show off the results of a cosmetic procedure.
The revelation comes after she recently admitted to using the popular yet controversial pharmaceutical Ozempic to lose weight.
Bynes went on to say that she also had skin around her eyelids cut away and claimed that the results were confidence-boosting.
Highlights
- Amanda Bynes revealed on Instagram that she had blepharoplasty to smooth out wrinkles around her eyelids.
- Fans online compared her new look to her child star days, sparking debate about trauma and the pressures of Hollywood.
- After a conservatorship and mental health challenges, she shocked fans in 2025 by joining OF, though she later clarified it was to connect with fans.
Amanda Bynes claims a surgery to smooth out the skin around her eyelids “is the greatest thing” she could have done
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In an Instagram story on August 18, Bynes revealed that she had joined ranks with Kylie Jenner and so many others and had a lip filler procedure. “Lips injections by @body.byem,” she wrote across the reel.
She told her fans that this surgery came on the heels of a blepharoplasty, a surgery that saw the wrinkles on her eyelids removed.
These revelations were prompted by fan comments about her changed appearance.
“I saw a couple of stories online that say I have a new look,” Bynes elaborated, “and I was never open about this before,” she said.
“I feel a lot better now about myself and I’m so glad I had the blepharoplasty surgery,” she said, then describing scalpel work as “one of the greatest things” she “could have ever done” to herself.
Bynes also admitted to taking Ozempic after her previous weight-loss plan did not work
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Previously, on June 22, the 37-year-old Big Fat Liar alum announced she was about to start using weight-loss medication.
“Oh, I’m going on Ozempic. So excited. I’m 173 now so I hope to get down to like 130, which would be awesome so I look better in paparazzi pictures,” she said in the Instagram video.
The announcement came a year after Bynes announced that she had gained 20 lbs. She blamed the increase on depression and claimed that she aspired to reverse it.
“I weigh 162 lbs. right now and want to get back to 110 lbs.”
Her plan at the time was to “do the opposite action when I don’t feel like working out or eating clean.”
Netizens feel Bynes is just another former Hollywood teen star statistic
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Outlets are shocked at what they see, and many have been posting images of Bynes as a child star when she featured on Nickelodeon – and even as recent as 2017 – and comparing them to her current appearance.
One such post on Facebook drew a slew of commentary.
“She has clearly gone through trauma and I’m wondering if changing her looks like this is a way of protecting herself, making her undesirable,” wrote the poster.
“Oh my, and she was such a pretty woman!!” exclaimed another, whose comment was echoed by another, who said, “I don’t understand her current appearance.”
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As a nod to this sentiment, a netizen referred to “Justin Bieber, Jaden Smith, Orlando Brown, Aaron Carter, B2K, Marques Houston, Kris Kross, & Brittney Spears” as examples.
Bynes admitted previously that she was insecure about her appearance
The public’s pity is unlikely to go down well with the 37-year-old, given her self-professed insecurities.
Speaking to PAPER Magazine in 2018, she let on that she was prone to self-doubt and recalled how seeing herself as a boy in the 2006 movie She’s the Man impacted her.
She described the effect on her as “a super strange and out-of-body experience.”
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“It just really put me into a funk,” she said. Said “funk” was a four-month-long depression.
The feeling struck again five years later and made her quit acting
Bynes was overcome by the same sensation at a screening of Hall Pass in 2011.
She remembered “having a different reaction than everyone else to the movie.”
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“I literally couldn't stand my appearance in that movie and I didn't like my performance. I was absolutely convinced I needed to stop acting after seeing it.”
“I was high on m***juana when I saw that but for some reason it really started to affect me. I don’t know if it was a d**g-induced psychosis or what, but it affected my brain in a different way than it affects other people.”
“It absolutely changed my perception of things,” she elaborated.
Perhaps the most shocking revelation was that she had joined OF
True to the sentiment, Bynes stepped away from her vocation around the same time (2011).
Three years later, she was involuntarily interned in a psychiatric hospital and then locked into a nine-year conservatorship overseen by her parents, which expired in 2022.
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Her psychological issues would come to a head again in 2023 when she checked herself into a mental health institution, per Daily Mail.
Then, in April 2025, she announced that she had joined the x-rated OF platform. She later clarified that it was not to model but merely to interact with her fans one-on-one.
Netizens cannot help comparing her with her old self
