Plastic Surgery Nightmares
Even celebrities aren’t immune to botched plastic surgery attempts. From Heidi Montag and Courtney Love to Kim Kardashian, here are the biggest plastic surgery nightmares.
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Plastic Surgery Nightmares
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Farrah Abraham
Close call! The Teen Mom star was an unfortunate victim of botched lip injections that dramatically blew up her pout to triple the size in January 2015. "As soon as he touched my lip with whatever numbing product he put in there, my lip was having an allergic reaction right away," she revealed on The Doctors. "I was laying down flat, but I was seeing more of my lip come up and come up. I'm just super happy that I'm alive."
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Sharon Osbourne
The host of CBS' The Talk, spoke candidly about her many procedures in 2013. "There's not much I haven't had tweaked, stretched, pealed, lasered, veneered, enhanced or removed altogether," she wrote in the book Unbreakable. Of all her surgeries which include breast augmentation and a double mastectomy as a preventative cancer measure, the most painful one was on a taboo body part. "The worst was having my vagina tightened," she revealed on the Graham Norton show in 2013. "Oh it was excruciating."
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Heidi Montag
The Hills star had a record 10 procedures in one day in 2010. Then in 2014 she had her breast implants taken out, reducing them from F-cups to C-cups. "I couldn't conceptualize the weight of them in my body," she told Us. "They felt like bowling balls on my chest. I felt inappropriate. Guys would stare at me really creepily and felt they had the right to because I had such big boobs. He told me they were falling through the bottom, and I got scared. It's super dangerous. They can fall through to your belly button!"
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Victoria Beckham
Posh thinks implants should stop right now. In the March 2014 issue of Allure, Beckham opened up about getting her breast implants removed. "I think I may have purchased them," she said. "I don't have them anymore. They got removed."
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Jennifer Grey
Her face became iconic after '80s hits like Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but after a nose job, she lost her signature look. “I went into the operating room a celebrity and came out anonymous,” she told The Mirror in 2012. “It was the nose job from hell. I’ll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognizes because of a nose job.”
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Courtney Love
Courtney Love is not a big fan of aging and to counteract the process, she got a face-lift. “Nobody ask me about aging gracefully, please," she begged in Canada's Fashion magazine in 2013. "C’mom, I took advice from Goldie Hawn when she said I should get a face-lift at 35!”
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Dana Delany
The Desperate Housewives star is not a big fan of botox after a botched job. "Something nobody ever talks about is doctor error," she told Prevention in 2010. "My dermatologist was saying, 'You should try it.' He injected my forehead, hit a nerve, and created a huge hematoma. 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."
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Kim Kardashian
At age 30, Kardashian got botox on an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. She then went on her blog writing, "Botox just wasn't necessary for me at this age."
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Jessica Simpson
While the singer has recently battled rumors of an expanding waistline, there is one thing she's admitted she has plumped up: her lips! "I had that Restylane stuff," Simpson, 33, told Glamour magazine in 2006, adding that she was disappointed in the results. "It went away in like four months...[but] thank God! [They] looked fake to me. I didn't like that."
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Lisa Rinna
Former Melrose Place star Rinna, 50, has admitted to having injections of Juvederm in both her cheeks and lips. "When you change your face, you don't look like yourself," Rinna told Momlogic.com. "Looking fresher is one thing. I look like a freak! I always said I wouldn't change my face, but I did it."
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Joan Rivers
Comedy vet Rivers, 80, has been outspoken about her multiple cosmetic surgeries, writing about her eye lift, nose job, and breast augmentation in her 2008 book, Men Are Stupid...And They Like Big Boobs: A Woman's Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery. "Looking good," Rivers writes,"equals feeling good ... I'd rather look younger and feel happy than look older and be depressed."
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Tara Reid
The actress found it tough to score a job after going under the knife. Reid, 33, revealed to CBS News that her 2004 breast augmentation left her with deformed nipples and rippled skin. "My stomach became the most ripply, bulgy thing," she said. "I had a hernia, this huge bump next to my belly button. As a result, I couldn't wear a bikini. I lost a lot of work." Reid had the procedures reversed in 2006.
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Janice Dickinson
America's self-proclaimed "first supermodel," Dickinson went under the knife for a breast enlargement, tummy tuck, both neck and face-lifts, liposuction, and Botox. After her surgeries, Dickinson's son Nathan urged his mother to stop. "I won't do any more plastic surgery," Dickinson told UK's Daily Mail in response. "if he's looking."
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Jocelyne Wildenstein
Nicknamed "Catwoman" for her feline-like features, socialite Wildenstein first went under the knife in the '70s, fearing her millionaire husband would leave her if she did not change her look. Later, she admitted that the surgery was not an effort to maintain her marriage, but rather to pay homage to exotic wild cats, which her husband loved.
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Pete Burns
The Dead or Alive singer is most famous for his song "You Spin Me Round," but is equally as known for his extensive cosmetic surgeries. Burns defended his choice to enhance his features to the Times Online, explaining that surgery is quickly becoming the norm. "Look how common [it] has become," he said. "It's the same with piercing: When I had my nose pierced in 1973, it was considered shocking. Now, housewives have everything pierced!"
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Nikki Cox
Former Las Vegas star Cox, 35, showed off enhanced lips at the Grammy Awards in February 2009.
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Daryl Hannah
Photographed with a visibly tighter, wrinkle-free facial structure, Splash actress Hannah fueled Internet rumors that she had gone under the knife.
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Donatella Versace
The perpetually tanned Italian designer has had lip injections and Botox.
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Michael Jackson
Music's late King of Pop had long been the subject of scrutiny over his looks — the singer has had rhinoplasty, chin reshaping, and some eye surgery performed — but Jackson said he didn't understand the fuss. "All of Hollywood has plastic surgery" Jackson said. "I don't know why they point me out. The press exaggerated it. It's just my nose, you know. They want it to be everything. Just the nose isn't enough."
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Priscilla Presley
Former Dancing With the Stars contestant Presley was at the center of controversy when it was revealed her plastic surgeon, Dr. Daniel Serrano, was unlicensed. Presley was one of a handful of Serrano's patients who was injected with unsafe forms of silicone. The surgeon was jailed in 2006 for malpractice.
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