Are we better about sharing when we’ve had a cosmetic treatment or surgery these days? It sure seems like it.
How many times have you looked at a celebrity and envied their beautiful features? Beyond you can count, right?
One reason people may feel more comfortable talking about their surgeries, or nose jobs in particular, is due to the natural-looking results that keep them looking very much like themselves. “A good rhinoplasty results in a nose that looks like it belongs on that person’s face. It isn’t just one shape that’s ideal,”says San Francisco, CA facial plastic surgeon David W. Kim, MD.
If celebrity behavior is an indicator of how far we’ve come with transparency, stars no longer have to spend time off camera to avoid coming clean about a surgical tweak. More and more we’re seeing A-listers open up about having a little help, whether it’s for cosmetic or more “functional” medical reasons.
Here, 7 celebrities who’ve gone public with their rhinoplasty surgery, which according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, happens to be the most common facial plastic surgery procedure around.
Jennifer Aniston
The former Friends star opted for a rhinoplasty surgery quite early in her career. But it was not to enhance her appearance and to deal with her deviated septum. In 2018, The Morning Show star shared that she underwent a revision rhinoplasty to correct a prior procedure meant to fix her deviated septum. The 52-year-old actress said that the original surgery was “incorrectly done” more than 12 years prior, which places her first rhinoplasty procedure on the calendar somewhere around 2006.
Khloe Kardashian
To end the Keeping Up With the Kardashians 20 season run, Khloe told reunion host Andy Cohen that the only surgery she’s ever had is a rhinoplasty. “Well, for me, everyone says, ‘Oh, my gosh, she’s had her third face transplant,'” she said. “But I’ve had one nose job.”
Tyra Banks
Banks revealed in an interview that she underwent a nose surgery simply to enhance her appearance very early in her career. “I had bones in my nose that were growing and itching,” she wrote. “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.”
Kyle Richards
“Since so many of you were speculating what I did or did not do to my face… here is your answer. I fixed my nose,” wrote the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star on her Instagram Stories in 2020.
Lisa Kudrow
Aniston is not the only Friends star to admit to a nose job.Kudrow, 58, once called the procedure “life altering” in an interview with The Saturday Evening Post. “I went from, in my mind, hideous, to not hideous,” she said. “I did it the summer before going to a new high school. So, there were plenty of people who wouldn’t know how hideous I looked before. That was a good, good, good change.”
Iggy Azalea
Dr. Ashkan Ghavami on social media for her “fabulous nose and breasts. After going public with her surgeries, the celebrity plastic surgeon shared the majority of the focus went to refining the shape of her nasal tip. “The tip was very twisted and very wide and boxy, so I had to do a lot of tip shaping to narrow and refine her tip without it looking done. She had a tiny hump that I reduced, and also she was very deviated and had blockage for breathing, so we really killed four birds with one stone,” said the doctor.
Ashley Tisdale
In a personal essay for her lifestyle blog Frenshe, Tisdale talked about the emotional turmoil she dealt with after her 2007 rhinoplasty which prompted much speculation from blogs, tabloids and High School Musicalfans. “It was a very traumatic experience for me, and it makes me very emotional to this day,” she wrote. “To be clear, it was not about changing my appearance. After several doctor’s visits about my health issues, they also suggested shaving my ‘bump’ down. I was young and didn’t put much thought into it, so I decided, why not?” The experience gave her a unique perspective on negative stigmas surrounding cosmetic surgery, which she says is an individual choice she supports. “It wasn’t a big deal to me nor was it like I was dreaming of the day I’d get a nose job,” she added. “On the other hand, I have zero judgment towards anyone who does look forward to that day— your body, your choice.”
