Now that fillers and botox are all the rage, very few celebrities these days opt to get a full facelift as their plastic surgery procedure of choice. And judging by these candid experiences told by stars who’ve had a variety of “lifts,” from brows to cheeks, we can kind of see why! From Kris Jenner to Felicity Huffman, these stars don’t skimp on the cringeworthy (and sometimes gory) details about the reality of going under the knife!
Click through the gallery to see stars’ shocking facelift stories.
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Kris Jenner
The Kardashian "momager" famously got a facelift prior to Kim Kardashian's wedding. On an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, she was shown crying in pain after the operation and saying "I don't want to die!"
But apparently, the 61-year-old had no regrets. "I needed a little freshening up for the wedding," she said in 2011. "Just doing what a girl's gotta do!"
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Karen Houghton
And speaking of Kris, her younger sister got a five-hour facelift to look more like Kris in 2016. "Certain angles of my face were just not what I wanted. No one wants a double chin," she said on Inside Edition.
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Madonna
Although she hasn't confessed to getting plastic surgery, many experts and fans have said she has gotten fillers, a facelift, and more procedures to give her skin a taut, youthful appearance. However, she doesn't kiss and tell. "I am certainly not against plastic surgery," she said in 2004. "However, I am absolutely against having to discuss it."
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Janice Dickinson
"When I woke up [after having my facelift], I was pretty much out of it," the 62-year-old model said about the procedure. "The one thing I regret about [the] experience is that I didn’t discuss the ramifications of what I was going to look like with my children. I was frightening to look at. When I got home, [my children] didn’t want to look at me."
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Kathy Griffin
"I got the brow lift so I wouldn’t have skin hanging over my eyelids, and the facial peel, where they use acid to smooth your lines," she admitted in 1999. "[After surgery] I was so swollen my eyebrows were basically at my hairline. Then the peel kicked in. It was like the worst sunburn I ever had. I cried constantly. The burns were so itchy it felt like bugs crawling on my face. There was nothing about me that wasn’t disgusting."
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Sharon Osbourne
"If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an ax murderer. They take your ears off and put them back on,” the X Factor and The Talk star said about her plastic surgeries.
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Gene Simmons
The KISS singer admitted back in 2007 that he got his-and-hers facelifts with his wife, Shannon Tweed. "I'd thought about [getting a facelift] before," he said at the time. "I was aware I had jowls."
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Courtney Love
"Nobody ask me about aging gracefully, pleeease," the 52-year-old rocker said in 2013. "Come on, I took advice from Goldie Hawn when she said I should get a facelift at 35!"
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Cher
“Yes, I have had a facelift, but who hasn’t?” the 70-year-old singer said in 2013.
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Heidi Montag
"I thought that first night [after getting plastic surgery], I was gonna die out of pain," she said in 2010 about her plastic surgeries, which included a brow and cheek lift. "I mean, I looked like I was hit by a truck… My face was so swollen. You know, my ear, everything had stitches on it."
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Felicity Huffman
Fans have been speculating that the Desperate Housewives star's "refreshed" look is because of plastic surgery. And it's no surprise, since the 54-year-old actress confessed in 2012 that she couldn't wait to go under the knife.
"I am all for plastic surgery, I can’t wait to get my face lifted," she said in 2012. "Like cola and crisps, it’s addictive – you can’t have just one face-lift."