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Eva Mendes said that she’s not afraid of cosmetic procedures that are “safe” or “reversible.” She added, however, that she has got some procedures done and regretted them. “If you get Botox, it goes away if you don’t like it. There have been times where I’ve regretted something … and then you just wait it out,” she said.
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Ariana Grande acknowledged that she’s gotten a “ton of lip filler” and Botox over the years but stopped in 2018. She said, “Full transparency: had a ton of lip filler over the years and Botox. I stopped in 2018 ’cause I just felt so — too much. I just felt like hiding, you know? I didn’t expect to get emotional. For a long time, beauty was about hiding for me; now I feel like maybe it’s not. I wanna see my…cry lines and smile lines. I hope my smile lines get deeper and deeper and I laugh more and more. I just think aging can be such a beautiful thing.”
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Priyanka Chopra Jonas opened up about getting a botched nose surgery that left her “devastated and hopeless.” In her memoir, she wrote, “Every time I looked in the mirror, a stranger looked back at me, and I didn’t think my sense of self or my self-esteem would ever recover from the blow.” She also remembered the media giving her the nickname “Plastic Chopra.”
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In 2019, Ayesha Curry opened up about the breast augmentation that she called “a rash decision” she made after giving birth to her second child. She shared that her motivation to get the procedure was “a bit of postpartum…[that] came in the form of me being depressed about my body.”
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SZA shared that she got breast implants but ended up getting them removed because she has a family history of breast cancer. “When I got my boobs done, my doctor took out some of my fibrosis, but..there was so much fibrosis, it was crazy,” she said. “And he took it out. And so, when I went back, a lot of the concerns were gone.”
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Martha Stewart opened up about getting Botox and filler in her face. She admitted that she tried Botox injections in her upper face, but she didn’t like it “at all” and thought it made her look “unnatural.”
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John Stamos opened up about getting a nose job after being nicknamed “Big Nose Stamos” by other kids in his school. Once he landed his big break on General Hospital, he decided to get rhinoplasty. “Everyone who gets a nose job tries to find some excuse other than vanity, but let’s call it what it was — vanity,” he wrote in his memoir. He said that after the procedure, he ended up hating how it looked, and during his next filming hiatus, he went to see a different doctor and got another nose job.
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Mena Suvari shared that she made the decision to remove her breast implants, which she originally got as a “distraction,” after working through her past trauma.
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Tallulah Willis shared that she dissolved all of her facial filler after not seeing her “real bone structure” for six years. On Instagram, she said, “Hi! I was scared to mention but I recently got my filler dissolved – after being very emotionally and psychologically wrapped up in what I thought it gave me – I hadn’t seen my real bone structure in like 6 years. Still learning to dial back the futzing and the pokes and sit with myself as I am, which is hard when your brain tells you that yes! more is better!”
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Cardi B got illegal biopolymer butt injections during her early 20s and got them removed when she turned 30. She even warned her fans never to get the procedure done. During an Instagram Live, she said, “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 result to ass shots, don’t!”
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Years ago, Lisa Rinna had gotten permanent silicone filler injected into her top lip, but after public scrutiny, she had it removed.
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Melanie Griffith shared that over the years she’d had some cosmetic procedures done but didn’t realize the change was that drastic until “people started saying, ‘Oh my God, what has she done?!'”
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In 2020, Chrissy Teigen shared via Instagram that she was getting her breast implants removed. “They’ve been great to me for many years, but I’m just over it,” Chrissy said in her caption. “I’d like to be able to zip a dress in my size, lay on my belly with pure comfort! No biggie! So don’t worry about me! All good. I’ll still have boobs, they’ll just be pure fat. Which is all a tit is in the first place. A dumb, miraculous bag of fat. ❤️”
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Molly-Mae Hague revealed that she removed the filler from her lips, which she first got when she was 17, and the composite bonding on her teeth.
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Back in 2017, Courteney Cox shared that she dissolved her facial fillers after scrutiny from the media and her loved ones. “The next thing you know, you’re layered and layered and layered,” she told New Beauty. “You have no idea because it’s gradual until you go, ‘Oh shit, this doesn’t look right.’ And 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 realize.”
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Simon Cowell dissolved his facial fillers after seeing an old photo of himself and not recognizing it at all.
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Danica Patrick got breast implants back in 2014 and was initially “happy with them” but a few years later began noticing minor health issues that she couldn’t find the cause of.
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In 2020, Ashley Tisdale removed her breast implants after she “began struggling with minor health issues” that were possibly caused by the implants.
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Modern Family star Reid Ewing opened up about how his body dysmorphia influenced his decision to get plastic surgery. “No one is allowed to be this ugly,” he wrote in an essay. “It’s unacceptable.” He explained that the disorder led him into a “plastic surgery addiction” and that he had a number of procedures done, including cheek and chin implants, implant removals, injectable fillers, and fat transfers.
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Over a decade ago, Heidi Montag made headlines for undergoing 10 cosmetic procedures in one day. And just a few years later she underwent another surgery to remove her size F breast implants.
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In 2019, Yolanda Hadid said that she was finally living “free of breast implants, fillers, botox, extensions and all the bullshit [she] thought [she] needed in order to keep up with what society conditioned [her] to believe what a sexy woman should look like.”
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Bella Hadid got a rhinoplasty when she was 14, but as she got older she wished she “had kept the nose of [her] ancestors.”
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Crystal Hefner removed her breast implants because they were “slowly poisoning” her. In a Facebook post, she said that after she was diagnosed with toxic mold and Lyme disease, several people reached out to her explaining that her symptoms were very similar to that of “Breast Implant Illness.”
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Blac Chyna got illegal silicone butt injections from someone who wasn’t a real doctor, and finally got them removed last year. In an Instagram video, she said, “I just want all the ladies out there to know: Do not get silicone shots. You can get sick, you can die, have complications, and all this other crazy stuff.”
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In 2022, Amy Schumer decided to get dermal fillers, which are injections that temporarily add volume to different areas of the face and reduce the appearance of fine lines.
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Years ago, Anna Faris decided to get lip injections in her upper lip and she said, “I noticed a small difference, but no one else ever said anything. I kept wondering if anybody else even noticed.”
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Finally, Clare Crawley made the decision to remove her breast implants after experiencing numerous health concerns she thought were caused by the implants, including an itchy rash on her upper body and an elevated white blood cell count.
