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.
O’Donnell Talks Plastic Surgery
On Sunday night, O’Donnell showed off the results of her facelift publicly for the very first time when she attended the Tony Awards in New York City. There, she revealed if she plans to get more plastic surgery procedures in the future.
“No, I don’t think so,” O’Donnell, 64, told E! News.
O’Donnell went on to say that she chose to get a facelift despite being against the procedure for so many years because she’d lost a considerable amount of weight thanks to the weight loss drug Mounjaro. This caused her to have excess skin on her face that she was determined to get rid of.
“I’m on Mounjaro over the last three years, I have diabetes too, and I lost over 50 pounds, and that was responsible for a lot of the extra skin that I had around my face,” she explained. “And there were two lines that made me look sad.”
O’Donnell fled America and moved to Ireland last year because of Donald Trump’s second presidential victory. Though she claims to be happy in her new home, she found herself getting negative comments about her appearance from the people of Ireland.
“In Ireland, people would say, ‘Are you upset, darling? What’s the matter love?'” she lamented. “And I’m like, ‘That’s just my face. I am not upset, it’s just how I look.'”
O’Donnell Goes Under The Knife
O’Donnell finally decided to go under the knife in January of this year. Afterwards, she felt that it was important to be open about undergoing the procedure.
“Authenticity is the goal in these days and times, and people are lying about everything all day to the American public. It’s very depressing to me and unsettling, and I think all that matters is truth and love,” she said. “And so, I wanted to be truthful and say all the complicated feelings I had about it.”
“I just felt it was better to be truthful than not, and I didn’t want some tabloid to go, ‘Gotcha!’” O’Donnell continued. “I just wanted to say, ‘Here’s what I did, here’s the doctor…’ and if you want to, it’s very expensive. It’s more expensive than any car I ever bought, but I can’t drive around in my face.”
O’Donnell admitted to getting a facelift in a May 26 Substack post that she titled “decisions.” There, she opened up about what led to her deciding to finally get plastic surgery.
“It wasn’t wrinkles — it was gravity. I’d look in the mirror and think, ‘This isn’t aging, this is melting with intention.’ I tried to be evolved about it and say things like, ‘This is natural. This is earned,'” she wrote. “And then … ‘Umm, how earned does it have to look?’ There’s a point where acceptance starts to feel like lying.”
O’Donnell Celebrates Facelift Results
O’Donnell later said that she is happy with how the facelift turned out.
“I wanted to still be me, just … less haunted. And I do look like me — a slightly more well-rested, emotionally stable version of me,” O’Donnell statred. “I didn’t disappear, I didn’t become someone else — I just stopped arguing with the mirror. And maybe that’s enough. Or at the very least … it’s what a lower deep plane facelift looks like when it minds its own business.”
Perhaps O’Donnell should have thought twice about condemning others for getting plastic surgery if there was ever a possibility of her doing so herself. Unfortunately for O’Donnell, however, that would require her actually thinking before she speaks, which is something that we all know that she’s not particularly good at.
O’Donnell can mess with her face all that she wants to, but many Americans will never forgive her for the negative comments that she’s made about our country and our president. Here’s hoping that she takes her new face back to Ireland as quickly as possible, because we certainly don’t want her here.
Good riddance, Rosie O’Donnell!