Ever wondered how some celebrities seem to defy the aging process? The secret is not always good genes or the most expensive skincare products that money can buy.
Sometimes it takes a contribution from cosmetic surgeons willing to help with a little nip, tuck, or wrinkle-smoothing injection.
While Courteney Cox called getting fillers the "biggest beauty regret" of her life, Sharon Osbourne said she has done so much facial surgery that there isn't "that much skin left to stretch, pull, cut.
From Megan Fox to the Kardashian siblings, here are some stars who have altered their appearance with plastic surgery.
- For a more recent example, see Matt Rife's plastic surgery before-and-after, which had fans doing double takes on social media.
- The conversation has also spread to politics - Kristi Noem's before-and-after photos have become one of the most-shared examples of the "Mar-a-Lago face" trend.
#21 Kourtney Kardashian
The eldest of the Kardashian siblings once revealed that she regretted getting breast implants at 22.
"I had my boobs done but if I could go back, I wouldn't have done it. I was so cute before. I've realized that I was made to look a certain way and I'm considering removing them," Kourtney Kardashian told Showbiz Spy in 2011.
"I had my boobs done but if I could go back, I wouldn't have done it. I was so cute before. I've realized that I was made to look a certain way and I'm considering removing them," Kourtney Kardashian told Showbiz Spy in 2011.
20points
#22 Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs has been candid about his experiences with cosmetic surgeries and once told Vogue, “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.”
In 2021, the fashion designer also shared a picture on Instagram with his face wrapped in gauze as he recovered from a facelift.
In 2021, the fashion designer also shared a picture on Instagram with his face wrapped in gauze as he recovered from a facelift.
19points
#23 Liam Payne
Fans of Liam Payne paused and blinked several times last year when they saw a red-carpet photo of him with a noticeably slimmed-down face.
Cosmetic surgery experts speculated over whether the former One Direction alum had any procedures done to his face.
“He didn’t look bad before, but his face, instead of looking soft and a little bit chubby, it looks model-ish and rugged,” celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Ramtin Kassir told Page Six, while Florida-based plastic surgeon Dr. Thomas Su said, “He definitely has a more masculine look with sharper chiseled facial features compared to how he looked previously.”
Cosmetic surgery experts speculated over whether the former One Direction alum had any procedures done to his face.
“He didn’t look bad before, but his face, instead of looking soft and a little bit chubby, it looks model-ish and rugged,” celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Ramtin Kassir told Page Six, while Florida-based plastic surgeon Dr. Thomas Su said, “He definitely has a more masculine look with sharper chiseled facial features compared to how he looked previously.”
18points
#24 Ashley Tisdale
Ashley Tisdale said she had rhinoplasty when she was young to correct a deviated septum, causing serious health issues, and not for cosmetic reasons.
“After several doctor’s visits about my health issues, they also suggested shaving my ‘bump’ down. I was young and didn’t put much thought into it, so I decided, why not?” she wrote in a deeply personal blog post on her lifestyle website, Frenshe.
“In the aftermath and the hardest part, was not the recovery but the media who constantly tried to paint a picture of me as someone who didn’t like their appearance. I loved myself, but I was just a very unaware person at that time (as you all have seen my wardrobe choices LOL!). I was proud of who I was back then, and still proud now,” wrote the High School Musical actress, who has also mentioned she had breast implants in the past.
“After several doctor’s visits about my health issues, they also suggested shaving my ‘bump’ down. I was young and didn’t put much thought into it, so I decided, why not?” she wrote in a deeply personal blog post on her lifestyle website, Frenshe.
“In the aftermath and the hardest part, was not the recovery but the media who constantly tried to paint a picture of me as someone who didn’t like their appearance. I loved myself, but I was just a very unaware person at that time (as you all have seen my wardrobe choices LOL!). I was proud of who I was back then, and still proud now,” wrote the High School Musical actress, who has also mentioned she had breast implants in the past.
15points
#25 Heidi Montag
Heidi Montag sparked a flurry of headlines in 2009 after undergoing 10 cosmetic procedures in one single day, which included a brow lift, liposuction, rhinoplasty, chin reduction, breast augmentation, and facial fat injections, among others.
“At the time, my surgeon was like, ‘Oh, it will be a quick recovery, a few months.’ And it took me over a year to heal, so I could barely talk [with] my jaw,” the former Hills star said during an appearance on PageSix’s Virtual Reali-Tea podcast last year.
“I just had part of my chin sawed off. It was really a lot just dealing with that,” she added.
“At the time, my surgeon was like, ‘Oh, it will be a quick recovery, a few months.’ And it took me over a year to heal, so I could barely talk [with] my jaw,” the former Hills star said during an appearance on PageSix’s Virtual Reali-Tea podcast last year.
“I just had part of my chin sawed off. It was really a lot just dealing with that,” she added.
14points
#26 Julie Chen
Another celebrity entrant into the “no regrets” team in support of plastic surgery is Julie Chen, who said cosmetic surgery felt like “a form of healing.”
"You know how some people, when they get broken up with by a loved one, they get a revenge body? Well, I wanted to get a revenge face," she explained in her new audio memoir But First, God.
"It was all amazing and positive — a lot of support before and after, no regrets. And the good news is the public reaction wasn’t, like, 'What happened, you look different!' Because I did learn early on, you don’t want to look different. You want to look rested. So I think we achieved that," she told AARP.
"You know how some people, when they get broken up with by a loved one, they get a revenge body? Well, I wanted to get a revenge face," she explained in her new audio memoir But First, God.
"It was all amazing and positive — a lot of support before and after, no regrets. And the good news is the public reaction wasn’t, like, 'What happened, you look different!' Because I did learn early on, you don’t want to look different. You want to look rested. So I think we achieved that," she told AARP.
9points
