Yahoo Lifestyle "I'm Not Supposed To Be Getting Breast Implants": These Celebs Shared Why They Regret Their Cosmetic Procedures
1.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.
2.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."
She added that she isn't opposed to getting more injections, or even a facelift, in the future. But she doesn't believe that people should be judged for the choices they make about their own bodies.
3.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."
She recalled having a hard time breathing, so she ended up seeing a doctor who discovered a "polyp in [her] nasal cavity that would need to be surgically removed." She explained, "While shaving off the polyp, the doctor also accidentally shaved the bridge of my nose, and the bridge collapsed. When it was time to remove the bandages and the condition of my nose was revealed, Mom and I were horrified. My original nose was gone. My face looked completely different. I wasn't me anymore."
She added, "While it took a few years of seeing a stranger gazing back at me every time I looked in the mirror, I've gotten accustomed to this face. Now when I look in the mirror, I am no longer surprised; I've made peace with this slightly different me. This is my face. This is my body. I might be flawed, but I am me."
4.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."
The procedure was intended "to have them lifted," but she ended up with "bigger boobs that [she] didn't want" and got the implants removed. "They're worse now than they were before," she said at the time, adding that she "would never do anything like that again."
5.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."
The Mayo Clinic defines fibrocystic breasts as "composed of tissue that feels lumpy or ropelike in texture. Doctors call this nodular or glandular breast tissue."
"I have markers in my breast, like metal markers in my breast, for these fibrosis, for these lumps or whatever," she said. "I'm not supposed to be getting breast implants." She said that after she got them put in, the implants "started hurting" her. "I got way too much scar tissue because my breasts are too dense, and I'm not supposed to have breast implants," she said.
6.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."
She clarified that she does still get filler, but tries to make it look "natrual." Martha's doctor, dermatologist Dan Belkin, also explained to her, "We have Botox-like products...that can soften some muscle, and on you, what I do with the Botox is I try to reduce downward pull on the face. So I do a little bit in the jawline and on the neck so that we can reduce the banding on the neck and reduce the downward pull on the face to keep those muscles a little weaker so the muscles of the cheek can pull up a little more."
7.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.
"I'm not all that happy with it. My nose looks kind of pushed up like Peter Pan or something. So on my next hiatus, I have it redone by Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon," he explained. "Who better to handle the delicate task of resculpting my nose than the man who created a whole new face for M.J.? I haven't even been on the show for a year, and I've already graduated from the youthful newbie to the double-nose-job guy."
8.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.
In her book, The Great Peace, she wrote, "I would catch myself so many times realizing, 'I have these bags in my chest.' And I didn't have that connection as to why I truly did it. There was a lack of appreciation on my part." After the procedure she said she felt free to embrace herself and said, "I just felt like I got to this place in my life where I was like, I'm ready to just be me."
9.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!"
10.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!"
11.Years ago, Lisa Rinna had gotten permanent silicone filler injected into her top lip, but after public scrutiny, she had it removed.
She recalled that "In the beginning, it was great," but after about 10 years the silicone began seeping through her lips and creating scar tissue that was "hard and bumpy, like peas." She'd even tried cortisone shots to help with the swelling but "it made them look worse." "I'd get photographed, my lips would look a certain way, and then people would start to talk," she said. Producers then urged her to see a plastic surgeon. "I came to realize how painful these lips had become for her psychologically. I was like, ‘Let’s solve this.'”
12.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?!'"
She added, "I was so hurt I went to a different doctor and he started dissolving all of this shit that this other woman doctor had put in. Hopefully, I look more normal now.”
13.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. ❤️"
She later shared photos of her surgical scars on Instagram because some people didn't believe her.
14.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.
“I was doing a club appearance and took a selfie,” she said. “I remember staring at it and thinking, ‘I don’t know what I’ve done to my face.’ I went from looking like a teenager to someone on Botched. I’ve never thought of myself as insecure, but I must have been to do that.”
She also added, "We need to stop normalizing filler, with things like ‘Kylie Jenner [surgery] packages’. I was 17 when I first got my lips done, and it scares me to think that if I have a daughter in 10 years' time, what it might be like for her. I sometimes forget how young my followers are, too. I’m often surprised by the fact some of the girls in my DMs even have a phone.”
15.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."
She opened up to the UK's Sunday Times, explaining that she initially got the fillers because she was "chasing" the youthfulness she had in previous years, but regrets the decision. "There was a time when you go, 'Oh, I'm changing. I'm looking older.' And I tried to chase that [youthfulness] for years," she added. "And I didn't realize that, oh shit, I'm actually looking really strange with injections and doing stuff to my face that I would never do now."
16.Simon Cowell dissolved his facial fillers after seeing an old photo of himself and not recognizing it at all.
“There was a stage where I might have gone a bit too far,” he told The Sun. “I saw a picture of me from ‘before’ the other day, and didn’t recognize it as me first of all.”
17.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.
"I had cycle irregularity, gained more weight, my hair wasn't looking healthy at all and my face was a different shape (weird I know)," she said. "So I went down the rabbit hole to figure it out. I did every test that could be done." These symptoms led her to the decision to get her implants taken out and instantly felt better. She added, "Within hours after surgery this is what I noticed — my face had more color and less dark circles, my face started producing oil again, I could take a 30% deeper breath into my chest already, and I had so much energy when I woke up (and surgery was at 2:30 p.m.)."
18.In 2020, Ashley Tisdale removed her breast implants after she “began struggling with minor health issues” that were possibly caused by the implants.
"Years ago I underwent breast enhancement surgery," she wrote on Instagram. "Prior to the surgery, I constantly felt my body was less than, and thought this change would make me feel more whole and more secure about myself. And for a short period of time…it did. But little by little I began struggling with minor health issues that just were not adding up."
19.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.
He also added, "Plastic surgery is not always a bad thing. It often helps people who actually need it for serious cases, but it's a horrible hobby, and it will eat away at you until you have lost all self-esteem and joy. I wish I could go back and undo all the surgeries. Now I can see that I was fine to begin with and didn't need the surgeries after all."
20.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.
“I was in way over my head with the surgeries,” she told People. “I had no idea what I was getting into or that it was a lifelong commitment. It was very challenging, both physically, emotionally, spiritually, mentally, on my husband and on our lives."
“They were so heavy they were falling through the skin,” she said. “It was just too heavy for my body and I was in pain and uncomfortable all the time. I thought, ‘What do I need this big of breasts for?’" Years later she opened up about just how intense the recovery process was for all those procedures. "I died for a minute. With that much surgery, I had to have 24-hour nurse care and [my husband] Spencer didn't want to leave my side. … My security guards called Spencer and told him, 'Heidi's heart stopped. She's not going to make it.' And I easily could've. Cutting yourself up isn't something I'd recommend...I don’t regret a lot of my enhancement, but plastic surgery isn’t something that should be glorified. Take it seriously.”
21.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."
In the past, she opened up about how she stopped getting Botox injections and dermal fillers because of her Lyme disease diagnosis. During an episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, she had her breast implants removed after learning there was silicone free-floating in her body. "Your health is your wealth so please make educated decisions, research the partial information you’re given by our broken system before putting anything foreign in your body," she added.
22.Bella Hadid got a rhinoplasty when she was 14, but as she got older she wished she "had kept the nose of [her] ancestors."
"I think I would have grown into it," she told Vogue.
23.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."
"My implants took 8 years to make me this sick, so I know it will take time to feel better," she said. "I also have other illnesses to address, but with the toxic bags removed, my immune system can focus on what it needs to."
She shared a post on her Instagram saying, "I removed everything fake from my body and deleted all my old photos. I am more authentic, and vulnerable and feel that I belong more to myself. I am mine."
24.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."
"Enough is enough. It all has to come out," she said, explaining why she was also removing her facial fillers. "Back to the baseline. Honestly, I'm just tired of the look, and it's just not flattering, it's not what I look like. It totally changed my face."
25.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.
However, in a now-deleted Instagram post, Amy shared that right after she got them she decided to have the procedure reversed. "I tried getting fillers. Turns out I was already full. Thank God you can dissolve them I looked like #malificent," she wrote.
26.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."
Eventually, she shared that she had to "wean" herself off of the injections because a friend of hers mentioned that her lips were getting too big.
27.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.
She also revealed that her mammograms showed sacs of fluid behind the implants. "As much as I love my implants, my body is fighting them and recognizes it as something obviously foreign in my body," she said on Instagram.
After receiving the surgery to remove the implants, Clare said her physical and mental health changed for the better. She said, "Making the empowering choice to remove my implants has been a 50/50 physical and mental process that words can't describe. (And the truth is, It hasn't been smooth or easy.) But taking that leap towards honoring my body + soul, allowed so much to fall away and truly heal. It really is more beautiful than I ever could have imagined!!"
