The actress and model recently shared before-and-after pictures of her facelift.
In addition to the facelift, Richards underwent a temporal brow lift, lip lift to adjust the outer corners of her mouth, and fat grafting.
“Yeah, I did the whole thing,” the 55-year-old Wild Things star said in March. “I wanted to put things back up, where they were before.”
The 1990s icon also underwent breast surgery at age 19 and later had revision surgery for her implants.
Richards admitted that she was “terrified” about getting surgery on her face for the first time. “Being in the public eye since my 20s, people know what I look like—a facelift is not something that I could hide,” she told Allure.
After she revealed her procedure, she said other celebrities “were more comfortable telling me about theirs, but I’m not gonna name names.”
Richards emphasized that looks can be deceiving, as “it’s not just serums and working out and lasers” that make people look youthful.
“I was always scared of a facelift, but I did want to do my neck—my late mom would always say that she had a turkey neck. I think it's genetic.”
She said her surgeon, Dr. Ben Talei, “wanted to do the whole face and not just my neck,” and she gave him carte blanche. “I thought, ‘Well, if you're going to refurbish a painting, you don't do half a painting.’”
In addition to the facelift, Richards underwent a temporal brow lift, lip lift to adjust the outer corners of her mouth, and fat grafting.
“Yeah, I did the whole thing,” the 55-year-old Wild Things star said in March. “I wanted to put things back up, where they were before.”
The 1990s icon also underwent breast surgery at age 19 and later had revision surgery for her implants.
Richards admitted that she was “terrified” about getting surgery on her face for the first time. “Being in the public eye since my 20s, people know what I look like—a facelift is not something that I could hide,” she told Allure.
After she revealed her procedure, she said other celebrities “were more comfortable telling me about theirs, but I’m not gonna name names.”
Richards emphasized that looks can be deceiving, as “it’s not just serums and working out and lasers” that make people look youthful.
“I was always scared of a facelift, but I did want to do my neck—my late mom would always say that she had a turkey neck. I think it's genetic.”
She said her surgeon, Dr. Ben Talei, “wanted to do the whole face and not just my neck,” and she gave him carte blanche. “I thought, ‘Well, if you're going to refurbish a painting, you don't do half a painting.’”