They may live in the spotlight, but even celebrities have plastic surgery regrets. From nose jobs to fillers gone too far, these stars are getting candid about the plastic surgeries they wish they’d never had.
Linda Evangelista
The supermodel spent six years as a virtual recluse due to cosmetic work that left her “unrecognisable”. In September 2021, Linda, 60, revealed in an Instagram post that CoolSculpting, a process that promises to remove fat cells by freezing them, actually caused her fat cells to multiply and expand. “I was brutally disfigured and permanently deformed by the procedure, which did the opposite of what it promised,” she explained.
Linda filed a lawsuit against Zeltiq Aesthetics for grievous injuries, which was later settled. She admits, “You’re not going to see me in a swimsuit, that’s for sure. It’s going to be difficult to find jobs with things protruding from me.”
Khloe Kardashian
Khloé is not the only member of the famous clan who has admitted to going overboard with fillers.
“It did not work for me,” she says of the injections. “I looked crazy and I still think the effects are in there, even though I went to have it all dissolved three times.”
Khloé, 40, has zero regrets about her nose job, though. “My whole life, I would say, I’ve always wanted my nose done, forever,” she admitted in 2022.
“But it’s in the middle of your face and it’s scary to think about. But I finally got the courage and I did it – and I love it.”
Sharon Osbourne
The X Factor star is definitely no stranger to plastic surgery. Sharon had facelifts in 1987 and 2002, as well as Botox, fillers and a tummy tuck, following gastric-band surgery in 1999. However, she describes the facelift she had in October 2021 as “the worst thing that I ever did”.
Never one to mince words, she reportedly said to the surgeon, “You’ve got to be fking joking.” She recalls, “One eye was different to the other. I looked like a fking cyclops. I’m like, ‘All I need is
a hunchback!’”
Sharon has since had the botched job corrected, but the 72-year-old swears she’s done with plastic surgery, declaring, “There’s nothing left to pull. My mouth will be like the Joker’s.”
Jancie Dickinson
The self-described “world’s first supermodel” and former America’s Next Top Model judge has admitted to having had her breast enlarged, a tummy tuck, neck and facelifts, plus liposuction. In 2014, she appeared in an episode of the reality show Botched, during which doctors performed a revision on the 30-year-old boob job that had left her with rippling across her chest.
“If I had to play my life over again, I would have never gotten breast implants in the first place,” admits Janice, 70, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016.
Bella Hadid
After years of intense media speculation about what surgery she might have had done, the model said in 2022 that she got a nose job at the tender age of 14! The admission came after years of denial from Bella and her mother, Real Housewives star Yolanda Hadid, that she had ever altered her face through surgery or fillers.
While her nose looks good after the rhinoplasty, Bella, 28, says she ultimately regrets the procedure.
“I wish I had kept the nose of my ancestors. I think I would have grown into it.”
Cardi B
The 32-year-old rapper has been vocal about her various tweaks, including breast implants, rhinoplasty and liposuction. But she took to Instagram in late 2022 to share her regrets, telling fans to leave their butts alone.
“In August, I got surgery and I removed 95% of my biopolymers,” she posted.
“If you don’t know what it is, it’s ass shots. It was a really crazy process. “All I’m going to say is that if you’re young, if you’re 19, 20, 21 and sometimes you’re too skinny, and you be like, ‘OMG, I don’t have enough fat to put in my ass,’ so you resort to ass shots, DON’T!”
Courtney Cox
The Friends beauty revealed she rues getting filler to combat the signs of ageing. “I have done things that I regret and luckily, they’re things that dissolve and go away, so that’s good because that’s not always been my best look,” she admitted in 2016.
Courtney, 60, shared that making little tweaks here and there made her look “really strange”, but it wasn’t until friends and family pointed it out that she decided to take action.
She confesses, “You have no idea because it’s gradual, until you go, ‘Oh shit, this doesn’t look right.’ It’s worse in pictures than in real life. I have one friend who was like, ‘Whoa, no more!’ I thought, ‘I haven’t done anything in six months.’ I didn’t realise.
Tara Reid
The American Pie star admitted to a botched boob job and body- contouring procedure, saying she noticed immediately that her nipples looked deformed after the surgery. A wardrobe malfunction at a party for P Diddy in 2004 in which one breast was visible for everyone to see didn’t help either.
“I was already dealing with what it looked like,” she said following the incident.
“The last thing I wanted to happen was to have the whole world see it. The actual centre part, where the areola is, instead of being a circle, it turned out to be a large square. It was horrifying.”
Tara, 49, also had a procedure called body contouring done by the same surgeon and was unhappy with the results.
“My stomach became the most ripply, bulgy thing,” she says.
“I had a hernia – this huge bump next to my belly button. As a result, I couldn’t wear a bikini. I lost a lot of work.”
Katie Price
The glamour model has had rhinoplasty, at least six facelifts and 17 boob jobs, hundreds of syringes of lip filler and three Brazilian butt lifts. However, she wouldn’t recommend surgery to women in their twenties.
“I didn’t start doing my face until I was in my forties,” she says.
“I had a boob job, but I didn’t even have fillers.”
Katie, 47, who has five children, admits the recovery process from her operations has “put them off for life”.
She explains, “People don’t realise when you have surgery, you only see before and after. You don’t see in between − when you’ve had it, the pain and the cleaning, the stitches out and the bed rests. So I would love to educate people about it. It’s damaging to your body. I’ve had so many anaesthetics. I know I still choose to do it, but I’m older now.”
Priyanka Chopra
The Citadel actress has opened up about botched nose surgery that left her “devastated and hopeless”. The star went under the knife in the early 2000s to have a polyp in her nasal cavity removed. While shaving off the polyp, the doctor also shaved the bridge of her nose, causing it to collapse.
“When it was time to remove the bandages and the condition of my nose was revealed, Mum and I were horrified. My original nose was gone. My face looked completely different. I wasn’t me any more.”
Priyanka, 42, says she lost a lot of roles and the media dubbed her “Plastic Chopra”. She ended up having multiple operations to correct the damage and now feels like her “nose normalised”.
