Courteney Cox and nine other celebs on plastic surgery, regret — and what they'd never do

1. Courteney C

In NewBeauty, Cox explained how her complicated relationship with injectables started with good intentions:

“[W]hat would end up happening is that you go to a doctor who would say, ‘You look great, but what would help is a little injection here or filler there.’ So you walk out and you don’t look so bad and you think, no one noticed — it’s good. Then somebody tells you about another doctor: ‘This person’s amazing. They do this person who looks so natural.’ You meet them and they say, ‘You should just do this.’ The next thing you know, you’re layered and layered and layered. 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.”

2. Chrissy Teigen

This spring, the swimsuit-model-turned-Twitter-titan gave Refinery29 a typically frank take on her experience with lipo:

 “I had an armpit sucked out, which was one of the best things. It’s a big secret, but I don’t care. It was nine years ago or so. And I had two inches to my armpit. Now it’s back though, so now I’ve gotta pay for [liposuction] again. It was so easy. It made me feel better in dresses; I felt more confident. It was the dumbest, stupidest thing I’ve ever done. The dumbest, but I like it, whatever. I have no regrets, honestly

3. Amanda Peet

In a 2016 article for Lenny Letter, Lena Dunham’s newsletter, the now 45-year-old actress talks about reconciling her personal politics with surviving in a looks-driven industry:

“It’s painfully obvious, but I’m still ashamed to admit this: I care about my looks. How else can I explain my trainer, stylist, and Barney’s card? I’ve bleached my teeth, dyed my hair, peeled and lasered my face, and tried a slew of age-defying creams… Yet for me, it would be crossing the Rubicon to add Botox and fillers into the mix. I want to look younger (and better), trust me. The only reason I don’t do it is because I’m scared. I’m afraid one visit to a cosmetic dermatologist would be my gateway drug. I’d go in for a tiny, circumscribed lift and come out looking like a blowfish.”

4. Kim Kardashian West

Like everything else in her life, KK’s Botox injections were documented on Keeping Up With The Kardashians. After the episode aired in 2010, she took to her blog, writing:

 “On the show you saw I had some bruising around my eyes after the procedure, which is totally natural, but because I hadn’t looked into the side effects, I freaked out… Botox just wasn’t necessary for me at this age.”

5. Gwyneth Paltrow

In a 2013 interview with Harper’s Bazaar, the healthy living guru admitted she’s tried Botox — but the experience wasn’t exactly positive:

 “I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I’m 50. I’ll try anything. Except I won’t do Botox again, because I looked crazy, I looked like Joan Rivers!”

6. Melanie Griffith

In a recent issue of Porter magazine, the Working Girl explained that she had somehow failed to notice how far down the nip/tuck hole she had fallen:    

 “I didn’t [realize] until people started saying, ‘Oh my god, what has she done?!’ I was so hurt… I went to a different doctor, and he started dissolving all of this s–t that this other [doctor] had put in. Hopefully, I look more normal now.”

7. Victoria Beckham

The former Spice Girl wrote a letter to her eighteen-year-old self for the January 2017 issue of British Vogue, which included an admission that her breast implants were not the best idea:

 “And I should probably say, don’t mess with your boobs. All those years I denied it – stupid. A sign of insecurity. Just celebrate what you’ve got.”

8. Jennifer Grey

In 2012, the Dirty Dancing star told Mirror that her attempt to surgically alter her distinctive nose turned out to be a career-killer:

 “I went into the operating room a celebrity and came out anonymous. It was the nose job from hell. I’ll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognizes because of a nose job.”

9. Celine Dion

As a guest editor for The Sun earlier this year, Queen Celine admitted that she’s feeling the pressure to preserve her youth:

 “I’m still looking through the magazines to find the miracle things I can inject in myself. Not to be different, but just for maintenance. I’m still very open to what the future in the aesthetic world can bring to us that’s reversible, for example. I would love to do things. I’m going to be extremely careful if I do. I can’t use Botox, I can’t, because I’m a singer. If they go too deep it can paralyse. If I sing and nothing moves I don’t think it has the same impact, so I don’t want to lose my emotion, conviction, sharing with the audience.”

10. Jennifer Aniston

In 2014, Jen chatted with Yahoo Beauty about her approach to surgery and fillers — which is avoid, avoid, avoid:

“I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem, who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet, and doesn’t touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening, all of these fabulous fearless women who are flawless, they embrace it! You know, to each their own; I don’t judge it if you do it, but sometimes I wish I could beg the people I know, who I am very near and dear to, to not touch their face.”

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