Celebrity Beauty Regrets: Botox, Bad Haircuts to Spray-Tan Fails

It takes a lot of work to be a star in Hollywood. From perfect skin and bodies to lustrous hair and flawless faces, there’s plenty of room for when experimentation with “improvement” can go horribly wrong.

Even though Khloé Kardashian has long shied away from plastic surgery rumors, she did admit to getting facial fillers and later regretted how “crazy” they made her look. “It did not work for me. I looked crazy, and I still think the effects are in there — I went to have it all dissolved like three times,” she confessed during a 2016 episode of her talk show, Kocktails With Khloe.

The reality star also admitted to getting Botox during the reunion special episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians that aired in June 2021, saying that she “responded horribly” to getting it injected into her face.

OG supermodel Linda Evangelista revealed that her five-year absence from the public eye was due to getting the non-surgical CoolSculpting cosmetic procedure, which is used to reduce fat deposits in one’s face, but instead, she claimed it “disfigured” her famed visage.

“To my followers who have wondered why I have not been working while my peers’ careers have been thriving, the reason is that I was brutally disfigured by … [a procedure] which did the opposite of what it promised,” Linda explained in a September 23, 2021, Instagram post.

She went on to allege that “has not only destroyed my livelihood, it has sent me into a cycle of deep depression, profound sadness and the lowest depths of self-loathing. In the process I have become a recluse.”

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For other stars, things they did in the name of beauty in the past came back to later haunt them later as adults. Actress-director Olivia Wilde admitted to InStyle that in her teens, she plucked her eyebrows “to create that sexy Kate Moss arch. I regret it because I damaged my follicles, and now it’s hard for me to grow thick, bushy brows.”

Hair is also another problem beauty area where stars have had major issues, both when it comes to getting super short cuts or dye jobs that leave their locks fried and damaged. Celebrities from Sarah Jessica Parker to Jennifer Lawrence have shared unfortunate experiences they had with their tresses that left them with serious hair regrets.

Scroll down for celebrities who have admitted to having serious beauty regrets.

Courteney Cox

“You have no idea because it’s gradual, until you go, ‘Oh, s—t! This doesn’t look right.’ And it’s worse in pictures than in real life,” Courteney said in 2017 about previous facial fillers she had done. The actress went on to add, “I’ve had all my fillers dissolved. I’m as natural as I can be. I feel better because I look like myself. I think that I now look more like the person that I was. I hope I do.”

Selena Gomez

The singer opened up about her infamous overly bronzed skin at the 2018 Met Gala during a February 2022 interview with Glamour U.K. “While I was getting ready for the Met Gala a few years ago, we put on a bit of tanning lotion and it looked beautiful, but as the night went on it kept getting darker and darker,” she said. “When I sat down [inside the event], I saw a photo of myself, and it looked completely orange. And here I am at this prestigious event. My first thought was, ‘I have to get out of here!’”

She did just that, as Selena later posted an Instagram video of her shot from behind while running through a parking structure after the event. Next to it, she wrote, “Me when I saw my pictures from MET.”

Linda Evangelista

The OG supermodel claimed that her famous face was “brutally disfigured” after her body had a rare reaction to the Coolsculpting process, where it “did the opposite of what it promised.” Linda revealed in a 2022 People interview that she was later diagnosed with Paradoxical adipose hyperplasia (PAH), where “the freezing process causes the affected fatty tissue to thicken and expand” instead of being reduced as the patient hoped.

Demi Lovato

The singer has had major issues with her eyebrows. They told Refinery29 in 2016, “My ultimate beauty regret is the many shapes and forms my eyebrows have come in. I’ve had stages where they’ve been so thick where people have asked if I got eyebrow extensions, and then so thin it looks like I just drew them on.”

Olivia Wilde

While her eyebrows look great today, the Don’t Worry Darling director-actress overplucked them in her younger years, which has made it harder to grow them as an adult. “In my mid-teens, I plucked them to create that sexy Kate Moss arch. I regret it because I damaged my follicles, and now it’s hard for me to grow thick, bushy brows,” Olivia revealed to InStyle.

Sarah Jessica Parker

As her character Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City went through a traumatic breakup in 2001, the actress had her famous long curly locks chopped off to show Carrie undergoing a new beginning. But SJP hated how she looked with the short hair.

“Serge [Normant] cut it off for Sex and the City. That’s maybe time to be forgotten and to never be discussed again!” she told Yahoo Style in 2015. SJP grew her hair back out after the big chop and she has never worn it short since.

Jennifer Lawrence

The Hunger Games star kept progressively getting shorter haircuts due to the damage caused by dying and chemical use. She ended up having to get a pixie cut to finally eliminate her fried locks. “I cut it earlier, and it was just kind of like [shoulder-length] and it grew to that awkward, gross length, and I kept putting it into a bun, so I just cut it off. It couldn’t have gotten any uglier!” Jennifer told Yahoo News in November 2013 of why she got a brand-new pixie cut at the time.