The Truth Behind These Celebrities' Changing Faces (And Why They Regret It)
Hollywood is obsessed with youth and maintaining their youthful looks. Celebs are not shy in admitting they use expensive skincare, surgical procedure and Botox to maintain their looks. It can never be easy seeing yourself age slowly on the big screen.
A number of celebrities are now speaking out about Botox and their regret in having it done so young. Sometimes it is because the procedure goes very wrong, sometimes it is due to side effects, but mostly it's because the star didn't enjoy the way their face changed after Botox.
Many celebrities who speak out against procedures say they’re not judgmental about others within the industry who have chosen to have surgery or fillers, but just haven't enjoyed their personal experience using injectables to smooth our thin lines.
10 Courteney Cox Regrets Her Plastic Surgery
The Friends star has been candid in regretting the amount of plastic surgery and Botox she has had on her face. Courteney Cox admits the quest to stay young led to her making some poor decisions.
“I grew up thinking that appearance was the most important thing. That’s kind of sad because it got me in trouble. I was trying so hard to keep up, and I actually made things worse,” she explained to New Beauty, admitting doctors pressured her into getting more than she originally wanted.
“The next thing you know, you’re layered and layered and layered. You have no idea because it’s gradual until you go, ‘Oh s***, this doesn’t look right.’ And it’s worse in pictures than in real life,” Scream star Cox said. “I have one friend who was like, ‘Whoa, no more!’ I thought, I haven’t done anything in six months. I didn’t realize.”
“I’ve had all my fillers dissolved. I’m as natural as I can be. I feel better because I look like myself. I think that I now look more like the person that I was,” Cox added. “I hope I do. Things are going to change. Everything’s going to drop. I was trying to make it not drop, but that made me look fake. You need movement in your face, especially if you have thin skin like I do. Those aren’t wrinkles — they’re smile lines. I’ve had to learn to embrace movement and realize that fillers are not my friend.”
She spoke recently on the Gloss Angeles podcast about dissolving all her fillers: “Thank God they are removable,” she continued. “I messed up a lot and now luckily … I was able to reverse most of that.”
9 Has Cameron Diaz Ever Had Botox?
The Charlie’s Angels actress admitted she once dabbled in injectables but wasn’t a fan.
“I’ve tried [Botox] before, where it was like a little tiny touch of something. It changed my face in such a weird way that I was like, ‘No, I don’t want to be like that,’” Cameron Diaz told Entertainment Tonight in 2014. “I’d rather see my face aging than a face that doesn’t belong to me at all.”
Cameron Diaz doesn’t judge anyone who wants to go under the needle. “They’re to help people feel a little better about themselves,” she told the Huffington Post in May 2016.
“If they do feel better about themselves, then those procedures have worked. I have no problem with that. And [in] a lot of instances, it does make you look like you’ve taken a nap … or that you might be a little younger than you looked maybe the day before.”
8 Has Stevie Nicks Had Work Done?
“Let me tell you, Botox only makes you look like you’re in a satanic cult,” the Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks told the Guardian in 2020.
“I only had it once and it destroyed my face for four months. I would look in the mirror and try and lift my eyebrow and go, ‘Oh, there you are, Satan’s angry daughter.’ Never again.”
7 Pamela Anderson Regrets Getting Botox And Fillers
The Baywatch icon had admitted regretting her decision to get Botox and fillers.
In 2015, Pamela Anderson opened up about her decision. “I am the last person to try Botox but I did,” she told People. “I felt like my eyes sunk into my head so far that I didn’t look like me anymore! I’m not into all that stuff.”
She doesn't regret trying to maintain her youth “I think a little bit of maintenance is good. There are things we can do to perk ourselves up. Some people go too far. I’m not obsessed,” she said.
6 Dana Delany Had A Scary Experience With Injections
Body of Proof actress Dana Delany had an incredibly scary experience with injections, Botox, and fillers.
“[My dermatologist] injected my forehead, hit a nerve and created a huge hematoma,” Delaney told Prevention in 2010. “The nerve has been dead ever since. It affected the muscle in my right eye, so my eye has started to droop a little bit. I notice it more than anybody else, but I was symmetrical before and now I am not.”
"Doctors are human — they make mistakes," the Desperate Housewives star said. "But I never went back, especially after he wouldn't own up to it."
5 Nicole Kidman Didn't Like How Botox Affected Her
Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman has consistently denied getting plastic surgery. "To be honest, I am completely natural. I have nothing in my face or anything," she explained. "No surgery for me; I did try Botox, unfortunately, but I got out of it and now I can finally move my face again… I wear sunscreen, I don’t smoke and I take care of myself, and I am proud to say that."
Speaking to the German magazine TV Movie in 2011, the Big Little Lies star admitted she'd "tried Botox" but "didn’t like how my face looked afterwards."
“Now I don’t use it anymore - I can move my forehead again,” she joked.
4 Why Yolanda Hadid Stopped Getting Botox
Former RHOBH alum Yolanda Hadid has previously spoken out about how she stopped getting Botox injections and dermal fillers after being diagnosed with Lyme.
In 2019, she wrote a caption on Instagram celebrating her 55th birthday and how she has coped with aging: "Fifty five and smiling from the inside out...finally back to the original 1964. Living in a body free of breast implants, fillers, botox, extensions and all the b******* I thought I needed in order to keep up with what society conditioned me to believe what a sexy woman should look like until the toxicity of it all almost killed me," she wrote.
Hadid, the mother to supermodels Gigi and Bella, had her silicone breast implants removed on an episode of Real Housewives in 2016 after learning that she had 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 continued on Instagram.
3 Simon Cowell's Experience With Botox
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At the Nickelodeon 2022 Kids’ Choice Awards, Simon Cowell revealed that he’s no longer getting Botox injections and fillers because they made him look “like something out of a horror film”.
“There was a phase where everyone was having their faces pumped full of this and the other,” the America's Got Talent judge revealed.
“There was a stage where I might have gone a bit too far. I saw a picture of me from ‘before’ the other day, and didn’t recognize it as me first of all,” he told The Sun
Cowell also admitted his son, Eric, was “in hysterics” about his overly filled face. “There is no filler in my face at all now. Zero.”
2 Melanie Griffith Received Harsh Criticism For Her Botox
The Working Girl actress has admitted that she wasn't aware of just how drastic the procedures in her face where
“I didn’t [realize] until people started saying. ‘Oh my god, what has she done?!’” Melanie Griffith said. “I was so hurt I went to a different doctor, and he started dissolving all of this s*** that this other woman doctor had put in. Hopefully, I look more normal now.”
She has also admitted the negative feedback about her looks deeply affected her. "Most people are telling me I look horrible. The tweets I get are really nasty."
During a Larry King Live appearance in 2002, the Body Double actress touched on the ridiculous standards and said her contract with Revlon highlighted them. When she was only 34, she was switched to the age-defying line. "I was extremely flattered [about the line], [but] I mean, it's age-defying at 34? Shouldn't age-defying be at, like, 50 or 60?"
1 Gwyneth Paltrow's Botox Caused Embarrassment
Gwyneth Paltrow admits that she was "embarrassed" when going for Botox when she reached 40.
“I had a midlife crisis when I turned 40, and I went to go see this doctor. It was a disaster. I didn’t do anything else for a long, long time. I was bruised, my forehead was completely frozen, and I didn’t look like myself at all," Paltrow explained.
She later switched to Xeomin and a new doctor to achieve her youthful looks. The Shakespeare in Love star later became an ambassador. FDA-approved anti-wrinkle injection for frown lines between the eyebrows
“I think it’s nice when women share, because there’s a lot of shame around surgery or injectables or fillers, and it would be nice if people felt confident about the choices they were making," she says. "But if they want to have a beauty secret, that’s okay, too. I'm an open book—I've shared what works for me, because that's how I've always learned."
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