Every month, we strive to bring you a balanced mix of breaking news (for example, debunking the latest myths about Ozempic) and advice you can always use, like how to fix botched liposuction. Invariably though, there’s an intriguing headline or viral post that doesn’t make its own stand-alone story yet is still worthy of a share.
Which brings us here, to the latest installment of This Month in Aesthetics, an ICYMI recap of industry-molding moments that we’d be remiss not to acknowledge—from a Real Housewife’s major weight loss to a news anchor’s “revenge” facelift.
Sharon Osbourne admits she’s gotten too thin on Ozempic
The famous matriarch has spoken openly about using Ozempic, but is now saying she’s had enough. “It’s just time to stop. I didn’t actually want to go this thin, but it just happened,” she told Piers Morgan on an episode of his talk show. While she’s no longer taking the drug, her goal now is getting to and maintaining a healthy weight. ”I’m at the point of losing too much that I have to try and maintain,” she told E! News. “In my life, at the heaviest, I was 230 pounds, and I’m now under 100. And I want to maintain at about 105, because I’m too skinny. But I’m trying to have a healthy balance.”
Meanwhile, her daughter Kelly Osbourne, who previously revealed she’d undergone gastric sleeve surgery, maintains that her altered appearance is solely because of the subsequent 85 pound weight loss—and not additional plastic surgery. “I’ve done Botox, that’s it. It’s weird, because now that I’ve lost weight, everybody is criticizing and trying to figure out what it is that I’ve done, and I really just lost weight. It’s just the shape of my face!” she told the Daily Mail.
Heidi Montag recalls having her “chin sawed off” in 2010
It’s been more than a decade since the former The Hills star underwent a whopping 10 different cosmetic procedures in one day—and yet it’s still a topic of conversation. The then 23-year-old underwent (among other things) a chin reduction, breast augmentation, a brow lift, liposuction, rhinoplasty, and facial fat injections and had her ears pinned. But the recovery was far more intense than she’d expected. “At the time, my surgeon was like, ‘Oh, it will be a quick recovery, a few months.’ And it took me over a year to heal, so I could barely talk [with] my jaw. I just had part of my chin sawed off. It was really a lot, just dealing with that,” she said on a recent episode of PageSix’s Virtual Reali-Tea podcast.
Tyra Banks says she’s not against getting plastic surgery—in the future
“I look in the mirror, and I don’t feel 50. I think 50 is the new 30s,” Banks said in an interview with People ahead of her 50th birthday in December. Still, the supermodel went on to say that she’s not writing off the idea of undergoing plastic surgery….just not anytime soon. “When I look in the mirror, I don’t see it. I have not had age plastic surgery stuff. Not against it. I just haven’t had it yet. Maybe I’ll need a little something something—I am 50, even though I’m not [yet]. But I’m not insecure about it,” she went on to say. However, in her 2018 memoir, Perfect Is Boring, Banks revealed that she got a nose job early on in her career, saying, “I could breathe fine, but I added cosmetic surgery. I admit it! Fake hair, and I did my nose. I feel I have a responsibility to tell the truth.”
Botox, filler, and breast reduction are more popular than ever
According to the latest findings from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, neuromodulators and dermal fillers were the top two most popular minimally invasive procedures last year, increasing 73% and 70%, respectively, since 2019. As far as plastic surgery goes, while liposuction was performed the most often, breast reduction experienced the most dramatic popularity boom, with the number of surgeries increasing 54% since 2019.
Khloé Kardashian reveals scarring left over from skin cancer removal surgery
The youngest Kardashian sister urged her followers to get checked for skin cancer and posted photos of her bandaged cheek last year. While she never confirmed outright that it was skin cancer at the time, she’s now saying it was—and sharing what she did to address the scarring she was left with.
“For those who do not know, I had a skin cancer scare on my face,” she wrote in a series of Instagram stories. She went on to show photos of what she called a “small speck of melanoma,” alongside the stitches that were left after Beverly Hills, California, board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Garth Fisher removed it. “Because we had to remove a tumor from my cheek, I was left with an indentation. I am definitely not complaining, because I would rather have an indention than melanoma any day,” she captioned another story where the hollow in her cheek is clearly visible. She went on to show a series of before and after photos, during which the indent was treated with a round of filler injections, adding that she waited nine months to get it filled and only after her doctor cleared her to do so.
Oprah Winfrey calls Ozempic “the easy way out”
Since she’s arguably the most famous dieter of all time, it was no surprise that Winfrey recently spoke about Ozempic while hosting a panel on obesity, saying that she’d wrestled with the decision of whether to take it. “Shouldn’t we all just be more accepting of whatever body you choose to be in? That should be your choice. Even when I first started hearing about the weight-loss drugs, at the same time I was going through knee surgery, and I felt, ‘I’ve got to do this on my own.’ Because if I take the drug, that’s the easy way out,” she said. Her statement ruffled some feathers online, with commenters noting that if she could indeed do it on her own, she wouldn’t still be struggling with her weight. Others pointed out the hypocrisy in the fact that Weight Watchers, a company in which Winfrey has a stake and where she sits on the Board of Directors, offers an Ozempic prescription program.
Ariana Grande explains why she no longer gets injectables
The 30-year-old singer got emotional while sharing her beauty routine in a video with Vogue. “My relationship to beauty has changed so much over the years…Full transparency, as a beauty person, I 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?” She then teared up, saying, “For a long time beauty was about hiding for me. And now I feel like maybe it’s not since I stopped getting fillers and Botox and maybe I’ll start again one day, I don’t know, to each their own. But for me, I was just like, oh, I want to see my well-earned cry lines and smile lines…and I just think aging, it can be such a beautiful thing.”
Julie Chen Moonves got a “revenge” facelift
The CBS TV personality got candid about her decision to go under the knife in her new audio memoir, saying it was her 2018 departure from The Talk that sealed the deal. “You know how some people, when they get broken up with by a loved one, they get a revenge body? Well, I wanted to get a revenge face. Getting the lower facelift was definitely part of ‘my job’ because I’m expected to look not drastically different from season to season or how people are used to seeing me on TV,” she said. She also said cosmetic surgery felt like a form of healing and a way to prove “these meanies can’t get me down.”
Emily Simpson flaunts her 40-pound weight loss
The RHOC cast member admitted that she took Ozempic for a month at the end of last year to “kickstart” her weight loss, followed by a breast reduction and arm liposuction. However, the 47-year-old reality star maintains that her body transformation is now the result of a consistent diet and regular workouts, many of which she documents on social media. “I am the strongest (mentally and physically) right now … at age 47 …and I will continue to improve myself daily. My only competition is Me,” she captioned an Instagram reel detailing her weight loss and fitness journey.
