Jamie Lee Curtis, Valerie Bertinelli, and Joey Fatone are among the celebrities who haven’t been afraid to discuss their experiences with cosmetic work.

10 celebrities who got got candid about their plastic surgery procedures

Jamie Lee Curtis, Valerie Bertinelli, and Joey Fatone are among the celebrities who haven't been afraid to discuss their experiences with cosmetic work.

By Louis Peitzman

June 24, 2026 9:00 a.m. ET

Rosie O'Donnell; Joey Fatone; Jamie Lee Curtis. Credit:

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There was a time when plastic surgery was something that was only talked about behind closed doors — or speculated about in the pages of gossip mags. But while some stigmas still persist, celebrities these days are more open than ever about the work they’ve had done.

Some of that openness can be traced back to a few A-list pioneers. Cher has been open about the work she’s had done since the ‘80s. Fellow icon Dolly Parton also hasn’t shied away from talking about her cosmetic procedures. In a January 2026 video shared to Instagram for her 80th birthday, Parton joked, “I hope I live another 80 years, but I hope I’ve still got my plastic surgeons in line.”

Stars have spoken about plastic surgery for different reasons over the years — some in the hope of normalizing cosmetic work, others to be upfront about the struggles that led them to go under the knife. Whatever the reason, it’s become much more common to hear major celebrities divulge details about any number of elective procedures.

Read on to hear from 10 stars who've been candid about plastic surgery.

Rosie O’Donnell

Rosie O'Donnell in New York City on June 15, 2026.

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Rosie O’Donnell made headlines when she revealed her facelift in May 2026, after years of the comedian and actress speaking out against cosmetic work.

In an Instagram post showcasing before-and-after photos of the procedure, O’Donnell directed fans to her Substack, where she detailed her decision. “I used to feel very strongly about facelifts. Not casually — morally,” her piece begins. “I had assigned myself as head of all women who would never — ever.”

The former *View* host had previously made it clear she had no plans to get work done. In a 2021 *Vulture* interview, O’Donnell said, “I wasn’t going to have plastic surgery. I was going to look the way a woman my age should look, and I always thought that would be a blessing in my older age.”

But as O’Donnell goes on to explain in her Substack post, losing 50 pounds led to loose skin on her face that she struggled with. Or as she put it: “This isn’t aging, this is melting with intention.”

O’Donnell further elaborated on her choice to get a facelift when she appeared on SiriusXM’s *Radio Andy*. “There was a lot of extra skin on my neck. There was skin on my face and I had a lot of friends who did it,” she told host Andy Cohen. “I was sick of people in Ireland going, ‘Oh, darling, are you sad?’ I’m like, ’No, I’m not sad. That's my face.’”

Kathy Griffin

Kathy Griffin at the TIME 2026 Women of the Year Gala in West Hollywood on March 10, 2026.

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Among those praising Rosie O’Donnell’s facelift was her friend and fellow comedian Kathy Griffin — though Griffin has jokingly admitted to having mixed feelings. While Griffin herself has always been pro-plastic surgery, she said she'd previously gotten pushback from her friend, with O’Donnell calling out Griffin for “a phony look” after having work done.

“Years of this,” Griffin shared on her *Talk Your Head Off* podcast. “Then, sure enough, she reveals that she got a facelift and she looks amazing, and she doesn't look like she got a facelift.”

But regardless of any gentle ribbing among friends, Griffin has never been shy about plastic surgery. In her 2009 memoir, *Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin*, she opens up about the pressure that led to her getting a nose job at 26.

“I was told repeatedly, ‘You would be pretty if it weren’t for that nose. You’d work more if it weren’t for that nose,’” she writes. “I was young and impressionable and I was told that enough that I started to believe it, so I got a nose job.”

Now, however, Griffin gets work done not because she’s being told to, but because she wants to. On an August 2025 episode of *Talk Your Head Off*, she revealed that she’d gotten her third facelift. “I know that's so vain! I'm so vain for no reason,” she noted. “No one has ever gone to a Kathy Griffin show to see her beautiful, youthful face.”

Like so much in Griffin’s life, she’s turned it into a joke. Her most recent comedy tour was called *New Face, New Tour*.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis on March 19, 2026, in Sacramento.

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Few stars get straight to the point like actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who has spoken on multiple occasions about the disparaging comments that inspired her decision to get plastic surgery.**

In a May 2025 appearance on *60 Minutes*, Curtis recalled an experience she had while filming with cinematographer Gordon Willis on the set of Perfect (1985). “He was like, ‘Yeah, I’m not shooting her today. Her eyes are baggy,’” she shared. “I was 25. For him to say that was very embarrassing. So as soon as the movie finished, I ended up having some plastic surgery.”

This wasn’t the first time Curtis told this story. She was similarly open about Willis’ remarks and the aftermath in a 2019 interview with *The New Yorker*. As she explained at the time, her eye job was also her first introduction to Vicodin, which led to a lengthy dependency on opioids.

But even outside of the link between the procedure and addiction, Curtis has nothing positive to say about the work she had done at such a young age. “That’s just not what you want to do when you’re 25 or 26,” she said on *60 Minutes*. “I regretted it immediately and have kind of, sort of regretted it since.”

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Joey Fatone in West Hollywood on April 9, 2026.

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Former NSYNC member Joey Fatone wanted to talk about the cosmetic procedures he’d had done for a simple reason: It’s not something men speak about very often.

“It’s crazy how many guys get work done,” he told PEOPLE in a 2023 interview. “They don’t broadcast it because a lot of men are very shy or embarrassed about it, but there’s nothing to be embarrassed about! I’m never afraid to tell people about this stuff. Who cares?”

For a while, Fatone was dealing with his thinning hair by using a spray to fill in the problem areas. He hated the process, though, so he opted to get hair plugs as a more permanent solution. More recently, the TV host used AirSculpt to have fat removed from his chin and stomach.

“My stomach had kind of a nice little hump underneath it and now it doesn’t,” he shared with PEOPLE. “It’s crazy because it’s one of those things I never thought I’d do, but then there’s just this unwanted fat that even if you lost weight or no matter how you dieted, just certain things you can’t get rid of.”

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On the whole, Fatone stressed that his goal with cosmetic procedures was not to get dramatically more in shape or appear significantly younger, but simply to look “a little bit better.”

“I’m not trying to change my look,” he explained. “I’m not trying to change who I am. I’m just trying to just edit it a little bit!”

Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields at the 'Dutton Ranch' premiere in New York City on May 12, 2026.

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While many celebrities have spoken positively about their experiences with plastic surgery, some have shared more traumatic stories. In Brooke Shields’ 2025 memoir *Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman*, the actress writes about a vaginal rejuvenation procedure performed without her consent.

“I’d be lying if I said I’m not embarrassed to share this very intimate information," Shields writes in the book. “But, if we are to change the way we approach and talk about women’s health, then we need to bring up the uncomfortable but very real issues. Shame is no longer an option."

As Shields further explained in an *Us Weekly* cover story, she had spent years experiencing bleeding and chafing because of the size of her labia, leading her gynecologist to suggest a labia reduction. Shields noted that despite the medical reason, this surgery was considered cosmetic and had to be paid for out of pocket.

At her post-operative check-up, however, Shields’ surgeon informed her that he’d performed a vaginal tightening (or rejuvenation), to which she had never agreed. The surgery was irreversible. “Nothing pointed toward this need to be tighter or smaller or firmer or younger, especially there,” she shared with *Us Weekly*.

Ultimately, Shields opted not to sue over the surgical “invasion,” though she acknowledged in her interview that she “definitely noticed a difference in my body, and not a good one.”

Karamo Brown

Karamo Brown at the 2026 Native Son Awards in New York City on June 19, 2026.

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Any cosmetic procedure comes with the risk of complications, as *Queer Eye* star Karamo Brown learned the hard way. In a June 2026 PEOPLE cover story, Brown revealed that he got plastic surgery to correct earlier work he’d had done.

“For years, people have been like, ‘Karamo’s had plastic surgery. He has so much filler in his face,’” Brown said. “I was like, ‘You know what? I can’t say anything because you can’t get into fights with the trolls.’ But I was suffering for years in pain and no one knew.”

It all started when Brown underwent a buccal fat removal procedure after gaining 70 pounds during the COVID-19 pandemic. The attempt to slim his face caused serious complications, and he was left with saliva buildup, scar tissue, and chronic pain.

At the time, he was filming his NBC daytime talk show *Karamo*. “I would shoot six episodes a day, and there’d be times when I was filming my show that my mouth would get so dry and it would be so swollen,” he recalled to PEOPLE.

To correct the botched buccal fat removal, Brown saw another plastic surgeon for a reconstructive procedure. He also underwent a lower blepharoplasty at the same time.

“This doctor did the most amazing work,” Brown told PEOPLE. “I’m so thankful because I was in pain every night, every day. It was horrendous. Thanks to this doctor, I feel so much better. I’m smiling better, there’s not saliva collecting, the scar tissue’s gone. It’s good.”

Josh Peck in Los Angeles on June 12, 2026.

Former Nickelodeon star Josh Peck has been in the public eye long enough to have faced decades of scrutiny about his appearance. But some comments have more of an effect than others — like when a crew member on his Disney+ series *Turner and Hooch* remarked on the bags under his eyes.

“At one point, the director of photography came up to me and just kind of nicely mentioned, he goes, ‘You know, you’re getting a little tough to light,’” Peck shared on a 2024 episode of his *Good Guys* podcast.

It wasn’t the first time someone on set had commented on Peck’s eye bags. With encouragement from a fellow actor friend — whom Peck opted not to name — Peck got a lower-eyelid blepharoplasty in 2023.

The actor had nothing but positive things to say about the procedure itself. “It’s the best,” Peck said on the podcast. “It’s really easy. They go all inside your eye. No scar, little lift, little tuck.”

Valerie Bertinelli

Valerie Bertinelli in North Hollywood on April 20, 2026.

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Actress Valerie Bertinelli also faced serious plastic surgery complications — and she chronicled them in gory detail in her 2026 memoir *Getting Naked: The Quiet Work of Becoming Perfectly Imperfect*.

After falling down the stairs and rupturing breast implants she'd gotten in the ’80s, Bertinelli was told she would need to have the old implants removed and replaced. That surgery seemed to go well, but two weeks later, she began experiencing disturbing symptoms.

“My right breast took on shades of green, yellow, and blue,” she writes. “The next day it started to swell and turned a dark purple. I felt myself getting dizzy. By nighttime, I was running a fever.”

She sought medical attention and had a second surgery to remove the right breast implant and the infection that had developed. Unfortunately, that surgery also came with complications.

“My boob started to fall in on itself,” she reveals. “It looked like a horror movie —­ and it was. I had an open wound the size of a misshaped quarter and a hole more than an inch deep where my nipple used to be.”

She ended up having another surgery in which a smaller implant was inserted and a plastic surgeon worked to repair as much of the damage as possible. In a March 2026 conversation with Drew Barrymore at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Bertinelli reflected on the experience.

“My boobs are deformed, and I talk very extensively and graphically about how deformed they are,” she told Barrymore. “My boobs suck, but I’m not dating, so it doesn’t matter.”

Simone Biles

Simone Biles in Madrid on April 20, 2026.

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Olympic gymnast Simone Biles also had a lower blepharoplasty, along with a breast augmentation and earlobe surgery. In a 2025 interview with PEOPLE, she opened up about her procedures and explained her “no shame” approach to plastic surgery.

“It’s just who I am, and I feel like I’ve always tried to be open, honest and relatable,” she reflected. “Seeing me win medals at the Olympics, that’s not relatable. But what is relatable is how we feel about ourselves, what we talk about, what we go through and how we share openly, honestly.”

In her PEOPLE interview, Biles shared her reasons for the procedures, explaining that she sought the blepharoplasty because she felt self-conscious about the bags under her eyes, which she attributed to genetics rather than lack of sleep. The earlobe reconstruction, meanwhile, followed a childhood accident where her earring was ripped out.

As for the breast augmentation, Biles made it clear that her decision wasn't driven by dissatisfaction with her appearance.

“It’s just something that I notice[d], obviously a little bit more because I live in this body,” she said. “It’s [all about] feeling good about yourself and loving yourself, and I’ve always been very vocal about that.”

Megan Fox spoke extensively about the three breast surgeries she's undergone in a 2024 interview on the *Call Her Daddy* podcast, noting that her "body does not react well to general anesthesia."

"I have my all my doctors have to meet with me before, and have to tell me if they've seen any omens — if they saw any owls, crows, if anyone stepped on a spider, if there were any dead insects — my doctors have to go through this with me, because I'm very afraid of dying under general anesthesia," she said. "I don't take surgery lightly, and therefore I have not had many of them.”

She added, “It's a very traumatizing experience for me. I was like, ‘I better wake up with the biggest boobs you can fit in my body’ and that is what he said he did."

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