Ariana Grande Breaks Down Plastic Surgery History: See Her Transformation From Child Star to Pop Icon


2009

During her Nickelodeon days, Ariana rocked a beautiful redhead hair color for her character, Cat Valentine.

2010

Although she was perceived to be a child star, the future pop icon always looked stunning, wearing elegant outfits to red carpet events.

2012

It appears that Ariana ditched the red hair color and went for her natural brunette look one year before Victorious ended.

2014

By 2014, the “Side to Side” singer started rocking more short and sexy looks while performing onstage after dropping her studio album My Everything.

2016

Upon releasing her next album Dangerous Woman, Ariana wore more mature, sexier clothes in 2016 at various high-profile events and at her concerts.

2018

The “No Tears Left to Cry” artist later began gracing sleeker and simpler outfits while maintaining her recognizable ponytail most of the time.

2019

Some people thought she had a nose job in December 2019 when a fan account tweeted about how her nose looked. Ariana shut down the plastic surgery rumors in a since-deleted tweet, writing, “Hayyy this is my birth nose, what TF did I log onto today? Lemme have a cute nose, damn.”

2020

Although she had already built a strong platform and image for herself, Ariana experimented with more unique dresses and outfits while attending different red carpet events.

2022

After getting married to her husband, Dalton Gomez, in 2021, the Billboard Music Award winner made sure to show off her natural beauty from time to time, such as with this Instagram photo of herself wearing only a light amount of makeup.

2023

Ari rocked a beautiful bare face before showing her “after” look using her r.e.m. beauty products in July. A few months later, she admitted to getting “a ton of lip filler” and Botox.

“I stopped in 2018 [because] I just felt so … too much. I just felt like hiding, you know?” Ariana said before getting emotional during a September 2023 Beauty Secrets video with Vogue. “For a long time, it was about hiding for me. And now I feel like maybe it’s not. Since I stopped getting fillers and Botox, and maybe I’ll start again one day … I know for me, I was like, ‘Oh. I wanna see my well-earned cry lines and smile lines.’”

The Wicked actress also shared that she isn’t against going under the knife in the future.

“I hope my smile lines get deeper and deeper and I laugh more and more. And I just think aging can be such a beautiful thing,” she said. “Now, might I get a face lift in 10 years? Might! Yea! But, these are just thought I feel like we should be able to discuss if we’re sitting here talking about beauty secrets.”

2024

Ariana was thrilled to finally have the chance to put the plastic surgery rumors to rest for good via her Vanity Fair lie detector test with Cynthia Erivo on September 30, 2024. Before admitting to getting fillers and Botox, the pop star did a rapid-fire breakdown of her surgical history.

Nose? “No.” Boob job? “No, can you imagine?” Face lift? “No, not yet. I’m open.”

When asked about a fox eye lift, Ariana said she “discovered it through people” who thought she had gotten the procedure done, but the answer was still “no.” As for a chin implant, the Grammy winner asked, “How do they do that? No.”

Ariana was shocked that people thought she had gotten a BBL and jokingly said it was true, but the lie detector machine saw right through the deceit. “That wouldn’t work for me. I don’t think that’s my thing,” she explained.

The pop star did note that she stands with anyone who chooses to have these procedures done.

“In full support of all people who do these things,” she said. “Whatever makes women, men, non-gender conforming people feel beautiful should be allowed.”