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If reading books by Irish authors has taught me anything, it’s that there’s a lot of gloom over there. That is a people who have suffered for generations from famine, violence, and a lot of overcast weather. This is to say, if a bunch of Irish people are telling you that you look sad, you might take it to heart. Rosie O’Donnell did, and she remedied the situation by getting a deep-plane face-lift.
O’Donnell got her face-lift in January — you can read all about it in poem form on her Substack — after losing 50 pounds. The comedian, who moved to Ireland after Donald Trump’s inauguration last year, has been opening up in various interviews about all the factors that led to her deep-plane journey. In a new People interview, she added yet another reason: Irish people kept noticing how her weight loss changed her face.
“I lost so much weight that I had a lot of excess skin here,” O’Donnell told the tabloid, pointing to her chin. “It made me look sad. People in Ireland said, ‘Rosie, are you all right, love?’ I’m like, ‘It’s my face. I actually feel happy here.’”
Those exchanges prompted her to start thinking about getting work done, which, as we know, turned into an internal battle. “I had to wrestle with myself because as a feminist I always felt this is the male gaze and not anything I believe in,” O’Donnell said. Her 13-year-old, Clay, asked her, “Mommy, girls look up to you. What does your legacy stand for if you do this?” In the end, she decided she would get the face-lift in a feminist way.
“I changed my mind for six months and then decided the real power of feminism [is] to decide what we want to do with our bodies and when,” O’Donnell said. According to her, Clay still hasn’t noticed the change. It seems like everyone’s a winner here, including the Irish, who now have a happier looking O’Donnell walking around their streets.
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