"It's my third. I know that's so vain! I'm so vain for no reason. No one has ever gone to a Kathy Griffin show to see her beautiful, youthful face," she told her viewers.
Elsewhere in the video, she revealed that her plastic surgery also included an "upper eye job" (a blepharoplasty), that included a "cat eye stitch" to give her eyes a lift at the corners. While she didn't name a specific procedure, Griffin shared that she got work done to her chin as well.
She also took a brief moment in recounting her experience to call out people who downplay plastic surgery pain, and said, "I'm going to be honest. It's painful. So these bitches that are like, 'It's like getting a tooth filled! It's nothing!' No, it's painful."
After getting her work completed, Griffin explained that she went to a "rich lady recovery place" for her healing process. She was then sent home with a nurse and described the first few days after the procedure as "disgusting."
"You get out of that place and you come home and maybe you come home with a nurse, and it's disgusting," she said. "I'm not going to lie. The first night there's drains that come out of your chin. I know it's so gross. But the vanity takes over."
In her 2009 book, Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin, she revealed that she got a nose job at 26 due to Hollywood pressures.
“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. Hey have you considered getting a nose job? You would think I had a nose the size of Texas," she wrote. "I was young and impressionable and I was told that enough that I started to believe it, so I got a nose job.”
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I don’t think there is anything wrong for getting procedures to make you feel better about yourself. She has always been open about it. It helps remove the stigma when there are open discussions about procedures and recovery.
She looks great
The last paragraph really emphasizes this for me, but it makes me sad and uncomfortable that she keeps calling it vanity. I’ve struggled for years with an eating disorder and I know that there are a lot of people who also think that’s about vanity and it’s really hurtful and disheartening. It sounds like she encountered so much judgment in her life that she thinks she’s less if she doesn’t look a certain way. I don’t think that’s truly vanity (at least not in the selfish and narcissistic sense we apply to that word) and I think calling it that adds fuel for the people who are critical of anyone who gets plastic surgery.
Good on her for telling it like it is! Plastic surgery is so banalized these days, we rarely talk about the recovery. Usually celebrities just disappear for a month without ever talking about it.
I love her. She’s a fighter.
Hey, as long as she is happy with herself, who cares? I can’t imagine what its likes being a woman in Hollywood and constantly being judge led and valued purely on looks
I dunno man, like good for her and all but it pains me to see a nearly 65 yo woman still fighting the demons she’s been fighting her whole life. 3rd facelift at 65? At a certain point it might be wiser to spend that $65k on a good therapist because you are exponentially increasing your chances of going out like Joan Rivers.
I’m wondering that is there a limit on how many face lifts you can get?
Joan Rivers 2.0…..
My heart sank at the beginning of that title!!
I think it’s really thorny sometimes wanting to make changes to your appearance for your own self-esteem, the problems with linking that self-esteem to physical appearance, and the way that appearance and beauty standards uphold patriarchy.
I fully support everyone’s right to do whatever they want to their bodies, and I’ve had procedures done myself. But I won’t say that my tear trough filler wasn’t an attempt to diminish my dark circles and therefore conform more closely to beauty standards (eg not looking “tired”). I enjoy the way I look in the mirror, but if dark circles or sunken eyes weren’t considered problems to “fix” then I’m not sure it would have bothered me as much.
i don’t know how many Fiona Apple “there’s no hope for women” left in me
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As long as she’s happy with it, I’m happy for her! Love her!
Choice feminism strikes again
I really respect her for being so open about it
Say what you will about her, but her total candor about getting work done when so many actresses (and actors!) still try to tell us it’s just water and skin care is so refreshing.
I don’t have ill will toward her, but didn’t she used to be older than this? That is, did a few years drop off along the way? I know a celeb who used to be my age and is now miraculously two years younger.
It’s bizarre to me that women think these fillers and facelifts make them look better because most of the time, it doesn’t. It makes them look older and less attractive because you know it’s all chemicals and plastic. And you can smooth your face but you will still have wrinkly hands and a wrinkly chest. Just embrace the natural wonder that you are. ❤️
This is just a tough one. I feel a lot of empathy for her because she’s actually been through some of the most insane stuff imaginable where money can’t really protect you: her sister AND brother dying of cancer back to back, her sweet mother’s dementia and death, and obviously Trump sending his SS goons to harass her for years. It’s amazing she’s functional. I wouldn’t leave my house if I were her. So I kind of get her pathological need to do all this stuff.
Also name drop. I used to see her at the gym all the time in the old days. She went by herself and worked out like a demon. She was tiny. Like a size 0.
this is wild but the video-game flop *Starfield* has some pretty great background writing about cosmetic surgery. in every town with a makeover clinic, the clinician has some insightful things to say about how and why people change their bodies and how that relates to identity.
i was pleasantly surprised, i just wanted in the (not great) character editor. ugh, that game was like a handful of rubies in a shitty papier-mâché sculpture.
looks great 👍
I could’ve sworn she was diagnosed with some kind of horrible cancer a few years back, i feel like pumping her money into her health would make more sense. Its possible ive confused her for someone else though
I saw Kathy at SXSW. I love her honesty and it is her body to do what she wants. Actions over attitude. She rocks!
This is modern day foot binding and I truly believe future generations will be horrified.