Last month, we reported that Rosie O’Donnell had announced that she had gotten a facelift. This came as a shock to many, as O’Donnell had spent decades condemning women who got facelifts and other plastic surgery procedures.
Now, O’Donnell is speaking out in a new interview to reveal the real reason she finally decided to go under the knife.
O’Donnell Reveals Truth Behind Facelift
O’Donnell previously revealed that she underwent a facelift back in January of this year. While appearing on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy on Tuesday, she admitted that the results of the procedure took her by “surprise.”
“You don’t lead with any sort of vanity and I think that’s what people love about you,” said co-host Andy Cohen.
O’Donnell told Cohen that her decision to get a facelift stemmed from her recent weight loss. Indeed, she’s alleged that she’s lost 60 pounds as of late thanks to surgery and weight loss drugs like Ozempic.
“There was a lot of extra skin on my neck. There was skin on my face and I had a lot of friends who did it,” O’Donnell explained. She specifically named her fellow liberal friends Jane Fonda and Kathy Griffin as two celebrities who have been open about their frequent facelifts.
O’Donnell’s facelift came one year after she fled America and moved to Ireland. She did this in response to Donald Trump’s presidential victory. Though O’Donnell had long identified as “anti-facelift,” she began to change her mind when she heard what the people of Ireland were saying to her about her appearance.
“I was sick of people in Ireland [where she moved in 2025] going, ‘Oh, darling, are you sad?'” she recalled. “I’m like, ‘No, I’m not sad. That’s my face.'”
Yikes!
This led O’Donnell to warm up to the idea of looking 15 years younger, something that she ultimately decided was “not such a bad thing” after all.
O’Donnell’s Teeth
The conversation then shifted to Cohen commenting on another aspect of O’Donnell’s physical appearance.
“Now, I’m assuming that those are your own teeth?” he questioned.
“No. The first thing I did when I won money on Star Search [the talent show in which she competed in 1984] was get crowns,” she recounted.
As for her natural teeth, O’Donnell explained, “They look like pointy scary devil teeth, and when I was getting them done, I wasn’t aware. They don’t say, by the way, you’re going to have fang mouth for now. When I saw in the mirror before you put them in, I was terrified.”
“I got them because, you know, I had very bad Irish teeth and one was dead next to the front tooth. It was yellow on TV,” she added. “It looked like I was missing a tooth, and so that was the first thing I did was get crowns when I was young.”
Will O’Donnell Get More Plastic Surgery?
While attending the Tony Awards in New York City last week, O’Donnell was asked if she plans to get more plastic surgery procedures in the future.
“No, I don’t think so,” O’Donnell told E! News in response. “All that matters is truth and love.”
“And so I wanted to be truthful and say all the complicated emotions I had about it,” she concluded. “I just felt it was better to be truthful than not and I didn’t want some tabloid to go, ‘Gotcha!'”
After a year in the quieter country of Ireland, it seems that O’Donnell is more desperate for attention than ever. We don’t care what you do to your face, Rosie, as long as you do it far away from America.
Good riddance, Rosie O’Donnell!