Hollywood's Nip/Tuck Obsession EXPOSED — 50 Plastic Surgery Secrets & Scandals
Sept. 17 2014, Published 7:15 a.m. ET
Hollywood is obsessed with looking good — just the right nose, the right hair, a big enough chest or chiseled chin, so RadarOnline.com is taking a look at some of Tinseltown's top stars and what they've done to try and keep a youthful look.
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Michael Jackson: The late king of pop symbolized celebrity plastic surgery for years, and he got started early, at age 21! According to Jackson’s biographer, J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackson underwent his first corrective surgery, rhinoplasty, in 1979 after breaking his nose while dancing. The surgery was only partly successful and subsequently caused breathing problems, so he underwent a second rhinoplasty in 1980. Many more procedures followed; his mom Katherine Jackson admitted after his death that Michael was addicted to plastic surgery.
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La Toya Jackson: Michael Jackson’s older sister, 57, has had her share of plastic surgery—and it looks like the list includes liposuction on her stomach. Dr. Toby Mayer, co-director of the Beverly Hills Institute of Aesthetic & Reconstructive Surgery, said he’s never seen liposuction go so wrong. “All that wrinking on her upper abdomen is what happens when you remove too much fat,” said Dr. Mayer.
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Heidi Fleiss has gotten a whole lot lippier as the years have gone by and is also rumored to have gotten cheek implants.
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Jocelyn Wildenstein earned her nickname “the cat woman” after undergoing more than $4 million dollars worth of surgeries to look like a feline for her husband! Facelifts, lip augmentation, breast augmentation, eyebrow lifts are just a few of the procedures she has endured over the years.
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Kathy Griffin: The comedienne told CNN’s Campbell Brown she included a liposuction photo of herself in her book, Official Book Club Selection, that is “so heinous you can’t even believe it. And it’s a picture of my botched liposuction that looks like a CSI crime-scene photo.” Kathy said she got liposuction to try to look like Jennifer Aniston but the operation was a disaster.
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Lara Flynn Boyle remains tight-lipped on the topic of plastic surgery, but experts maintain that she has gotten several procedures as well as several reconstructive procedures, completely transforming her looks since her Twin Peaks years.
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Gennifer Flowers: Bill Clinton’s former mistress, 63, underwent a dramatic plastic surgery makeover that included a face-, brow- and eye-lift. Dr. Steve Fallek, a board-certified plastic surgeon from New Jersey, said Gennifer “had a brow- and face-lift, and has also had her eyes done, which is called blepharoplasty and involves removing excess skin from the upper and lower eyelids.” According to sources, the cabaret singer had surgery from Dr. Jason Diamond in Beverly Hills.
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Heidi Montag: In 2010, The Hills reality star famously underwent ten different plastic surgery procedures, but she’s said, “Getting lipo is my biggest regret. I got cellulite after my lipo. Now I rarely wear shorts.”
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NeNe Leakes: The Real Housewives of Atlanta star had lipo around her waist in 2010 as part of several plastic surgery procedures she had done. “I still wanted to look like NeNe, the black woman that I am, but a better version,” she told People magazine. “I love what I did.”
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Jersey Shore star and new mom Jenni 'JWoww' Farley's face has changed A LOT over the years, with plump cheeks described as a "pillow face" by a renowned top plastic surgeon.
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Barry Manilow is rumored to have undergone a plethora of plastic surgery procedures since his youth, including three facelifts, eyelid surgery and Botox injections.
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Jennifer Aniston: The Friends star appeared on Inside the Actor’s Studio and acknowledged she broke her nose when she was a teenager after a baseball hit her in the face. Jen slyly then admitted plastic surgery to host James Lipton by simply admitting that her nose wasn’t broken anymore!
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Mickey Rourke has admitted to getting lots of work done, including facial reconstruction on his cheek and nose, most of which he says was to repair damage done from his brief boxing career. In 2012, photos surfaced of the star taken right after he made a trip to the plastic surgeons office, bruised and bandaged up.
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Joan Rivers has never been bashful when it comes to talking about the hundreds of plastic surgery procedures she has gotten over the years. She recently boasted that she has undergone 739 procedures in her 79 years, getting pretty much everything nipped, tucked and injected.
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Courtney Love has admitted changing her look since the Grunge days. The Hole singer has even expressed regret about getting her lips overly injected and getting a nose job.
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Linda Evans: The former Dynasty star, 70, has overdone the nips and tucks, giving her an artificial look, said Dr. Anthony Griffin. Now (age), she “appears to have had face-and brow-lifts because her forehead is way too high for a woman her age.” Dr. Griffin also believes she had too much filler—probably Restylane or collagen—injected into her lips. Her unusually rosy cheeks are likely due to laser resurfacint or chemical peels, Dr. Griffin said.
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Ashlee Simpson: The singer, 28, said she always knew she’d get a nose job. And after she visited Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Raj Kanodia, the bump and prominent tip of her old shnozz were gone. “I feel more confident than ever,” Ashlee gushed.
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Nikki Cox isn’t one to engage in plastic surgery banter, but the Las Vegas star looked different in 2008 than she did in 1999,with MUCH bigger lips and puffier cheeks.
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Dianna Agron: When she was age 25 in 2011, the Glee beauty admitted to David Letterman she’d already had surgery done on her nose after getting it broken twice, once while she was in high school and the second time while on tour with Glee. A doctor told her she had a deviated septum due to the incidents. “It’s fixed now,” Dianna told Dave.
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Fashionista Rachel Zoe appears to have had a nose job, along with an immense weight loss. “Rachel appears to have had a nose job sometime between those two photos,” Dr. Anthony Youn — who has never treated Rachel — said. “Her nose looks thinner and more refined. It looks like her surgeon did a nice job.”
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Ashley Tisdale: The High School Musical star admits she had a plastic surgeon fix her honker, but claimed it was for health-related reasons. The 28-year-old said she had a deviated septum and two small fractures that interfered with her breathing. “Through the years, my nose was to the left of my face. There was something not right.”
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Janice Dickinson loves getting plastic surgery! The world’s first supermodel loves talking about the extensive work she has gotten done over the years. “I live for plastic surgery,” she recently admitted, copping to a tummy tuck, a face-lift, Botox and Restylne.
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Mariah Carey: As Mariah’s career blossomed, so did her bustline! “Mariah appears to have undergone bilateral breast augmentation,” said Dr. Dennis Hurwitz of the Hurwitz Plastic Surgery Center in Beverly Hills of the now 43-year-old former American Idol judge. “She has considerable additional fullness and broadness of her breasts, resulting in deep cleavage.”
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It’s no secret that fashionista Donatella Versace has gotten a little work done over the years. The designer, who has copped to getting only Botox, recently tried to attribute her “youthful look” to an extensive beauty regiment. "I'm not like this genetically," she admitted."I use tons of cream and take care of my hair and skin."
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Sharon Osbourne has admitted that she has gone too far with plastic surgery! The rock wife, who looks like an entirely different person than she did before, has admitted to getting several cosmetic procedures done to her face and body, including breast implants, a face lift and a leg lift. “Everything!” Osbourne bragged to Anderson Cooper when he recently asked her what she’d had done over the years. “There’s not one thing I haven’t had lifted, cut or sewn back on.”
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Jennifer Grey admits to going under the knife and drastically transforming her look from her Dirty Dancing days and has expressed regret about her nose job, which she believe ruined her career.“I went into the operating room a celebrity and came out anonymous,” she said. “It was the nose job from hell. I’ll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognizes because of a nose job.”
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Mom-of-three Jacqueline Laurita secretly had a tummy tuck and neck lift in between Real Housewives of New Jersey seasons and even tweeted the admission writing, “That’s right… I said Tummy tuck and Neck lift! Thank you @DrBrentMD!!!XOXO!” She has Brent Moelleken, MD, a plastic and reconstructive cosmetic surgeon who has offices in Beverly Hills and Santa Barbara, Calif. to thank.
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Kyle Richards: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reality star got very real when discussing the lipo she got on her midsection in 2012. The wife and mom was self-conscious about her tummy and didn’t like her look with a shirt tucked into jeans. She sighed, “After having four kids, no matter what exercise I did, the love handles wouldn’t go away.” Post-lipo, Kyle said, “I’m very happy with the results.”
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Clay Aiken: Liposuction isn’t just for the ladies! The former American Idol star admitted he got lipo on his chin before his 2012 season of Celebrity Apprentice. “I had surgery on my jaw for a TMJ disorder thing, and I had them suck the fat out of my chin while they were in there,” the openly gay dad confided on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live chat show.
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Melanie Griffith may not talk about her plastic surgery (experts claim she has gotten lip injections, Botox and an upper eyelid lift) but the actress has clearly transformed since her child star days! She recently admitted that she gets bullied for her looks. “Most people are telling me I look horrible,” she said about how she gets mocked for her appearance. “The tweets I get are really nasty."
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Axl Rose went through a reclusive period after Guns N’ Roses split up, and reportedly had several surgeries done during that time including a nose job, hair plugs and a facelift. The 1990s icon now looks nothing like he did in his Paradise City days.
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Demi Moore: The Striptease star, 50, reportedly had plastic surgery on her flabby, saggy knees in October 2006. The surgery, which involves removing excess fat and skin from the knee, only takes about 90 minutes and made Moore’s gams glam. But after looking at a photo of Demi just two years later, Dr. Anthony Griffin, who has appeared on ABC’s Extreme Makeover, said, “The skin has stretched back down and you can see that there is still some fat left.”
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Brigitte Nielsen: Sylvester Stallone’s ex-wife, now 50, let the whole world watch when she got a total-body makeover on live TV in Germany in 2008. “I’m getting a complete renewal—face-lift, eye-lift, fat injections in my face, liposuction, a breast-list—and I need new teeth,” Brigitte explained before undergoing multiple procedures for the reality series, From Old to New: Brigitte Nielsen in the Celebrity Clinic. Dr. Anthony Youn said it was great work and commented, “I think she looks at least 15 years younger.”
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Nicole Kidman is of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood, with a tall lithe frame that is the envy of women around the world, but it looks like she’s also added a pair of larger breasts to her thin figure.
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Big Ang isn’t shy about sharing her plastic surgery history with the world! The Mob Wives star, who has drastically transformed since her youth and had her first boob job 27 years ago, has admitted she is “obsessed” with getting work done and has copped to several surgeries, such as three boob jobs, a tummy tuck, lipo and lip injections.
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Lil Kim has changed more than her cup-size over the years! The sassy rapper is rumored to have undergone several surgeries, including a nose job and cheek implants, looking almost unrecognizable now. When she recently asked about her alleged surgery by Power 105.1, the rapper was seriously offended. "Why would you ask me that?" she responded. "There's sic so many people who have surgery. You know? So, I don't know where that question is coming from."
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Amanda Lepore is a transsexual New York socialite who has gone way too far with plastic surgery! The “model” is said to have undergone multiple procedures in her lifetime, such as boob jobs, facelifts, nose jobs and lip injections.
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Fergie: According to top Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon Dr. Richard Fleming, who has not treated Fergie, 38, the singer got plastic surgery—and it looks fab! “Fergie was developing a ‘turkey neck,’ and it my opinion, surgery corrected her hanging jowls. It certainly appears she’s had what we call a mini-face lift,” Dr. Fleming says.
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Courtney Stodden: Courtney, 18, had a breast augmentation in June that took her from a C-cup to eye popping double Ds! The starlet, whose previous claim to fame was marrying actor Doug Hutchison in 2011 when she was 16 and he was 51 (they appeared on VH1’s Couples Therapy) even posted a video online documenting her plastic surgery. The short film ends with Stodden's bandages being taken off, as she, her husband, and her doctor examine her new rack!
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Even though she may end up in the slammer, Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice wants to look good doing it! “She gets Botox on a regular basis,” a source close to Giudice exclusively told Radar. “She gets Restylane on a regular basis. She gets a skin resurfacing laser and she gets laser hair removal on her forehead.”
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Following a car accident in 2007, Rose McGowan said she had some corrective surgery to heal a cut from eyeglasses under her eye. But some say she had additional procedures on her cheeks and nose.
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Adrianne Curry: When the America’s Next Top Model winner was 24 in November 2006, Adrianne got surgery to fix what she called embarrassingly assymetrical breasts. The model, who also starred on My Fair Brady with her husband, Brady Bunch actor Christopher Knight, revealed that after a miscarriage, one of her breasts grew larger than the other, causing a two inch difference in size. She said implants eliminated the problem.
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Pamela Anderson has copped to having several boob jobs over the years, dramatically transforming her bust size. Recently, Pam has been accused of getting a little nip and tuck done on her face as well.
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Star Jones: The former View hostess, 51, famously got gastric bypass surgery in 2003 when she hit a scale-busting 310 pounds. After dropping 160 pounds, Star admitted she had “liposuction, a tummy tuck, a breast-lift and some other stuff done,” as a direct result of her huge weight loss. But several years ago, cosmetic surgeon Dr. Anthony Youn said Star needed another breast-lift, more work on her stomach, a lower body-lift to remove thigh skin and other skin-tightening procedures. So has Star had any more work done? Only her plastic surgeon(s) know for sure!
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Nicollette Sheridan: While she denies undergoing plastic surgery, experts say the 49-year-old stunner isn’t fooling anybody. Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Richard Fleming said her breasts seem to have exploded in the past 20 years—and that doesn’t happen naturally. Dr. George Boris, a Los Angeles-area nip and tuck expert, believes the Desperate Housewives star has “had a nose job, a face-lift and lip enhancements.” New York plastic surgeon Adam Kolker, M.D., also suspects that Nicollette keeps her fresh-faced look with regular Botox injections.
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Suzanne Somers denies getting any work done to her face, but the actress definitely looks different than she did in the late 1970s! She is accused of having her cheeks plumped up, a nose job, a facelift, brow lift and lip injections.
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Lark Voorhies is best known for playing Lisa on "Saved By The Bell," but she has drastically changed her look since her child star days. She is almost unrecognizable recently!
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The Duchess of Alba is rumored to have undergone several surgeries over her 87 years, though has never disclosed the extent of her surgeries.
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Even though she may end up in the slammer, Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice wants to look good doing it! “She gets Botox on a regular basis,” a source close to Giudice exclusively told Radar. “She gets Restylane on a regular basis. She gets a skin resurfacing laser and she gets laser hair removal on her forehead.”
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Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth: The reality TV star had breast augmentation surgery filmed for the Discovery Channel series, Plastic Surgery Before and After. Afterwards, the former Apprentice competitor, now 39, said, “It’s such a dramatic difference. I was a negative A cup. I was going concave. Now I’m a small D.”