Plastic surgery used to be kept very hush-hush in Hollywood. Celebs would boo-boo boob jobs and turn their, er, noses up at rhinoplasty rumours.
But fast-forward to today and they’re no longer worried about hiding their nips and tucks.
In fact, cosmetic confessions are something to brag about.
Exhibit A: Kylie Jenner. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star regularly flashes her fixes and even urges young fans to follow in her surgical footsteps.
“I would recommend that anyone who gets it done go for a filler that lasts only two to four months,” says Ky, 19, who’s a regular on Time magazine’s lists of the world’s most influential teenagers – and openly admits to plumping her pout with filler for the first time at just 17.
“It’s annoying to keep going back, but you have the option of stopping it,” she says.
Even Kylie’s mum Kris Jenner has said her daughter’s desire for fillers at such a young age was worrying.
“I am thinking, ‘Why? Why? Why do you need to do that?’ I got really upset. And then it was done, and I had to let it go,” she says. “We make mistakes.”
But these young stars don’t see their surgeries as slip-ups –and it’s becoming super scary.
“Celebrities have a lot of influence and make it look normal at their age when in reality they’re way too young,” Dr Jenn Mann, an LA-based psychologist and author of the book, The A To Z Guide To Raising Happy, Confident Kids, tells NW.
“Teenage years tend to be the difficult years [for] body image. Plastic surgery looks like the answer, especially for young girls, when you look at celebrities getting it for their self-esteem.”
Pressured to be perfect
While admitting she wanted to be more like her older sister Kim Kardashian, Kylie also says she turned to surgery as a drastic response to the bullying she’s copped since she was nine.
“Everyone always picks us apart,” she admitted in 2015.
“I have temporary lip fillers, it’s just an insecurity of mine and it’s what I wanted to do.”
After Ky finally let slip about her lips – having originally denied getting work because she “didn’t want to be a bad role model” – plastic surgeon Dr Robert Cohen’s phone started ringing off the hook.
“The younger ones are coming when they see something they like on Keeping Up With The Kardashians,” the LA-based medic tells NW.
“Younger girls want the upper lip larger than the lower… because Kylie did. I tell them, ‘You’re looking to better yourself, but wait a few years.’”
But when the millions of wannabe Kylie klones couldn’t afford fillers – we guess pocket money doesn’t stretch that far! – they created the Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge.
Teens plumped their smackers using “dangerous” suction methods in a bid to replicate their idol, with some ending up in the emergency room.
Role models? Who cares!
“It’s lame to deny something so obvious,” says Iggy Azalea, who’s never tried to hide her numerous surgeries. “I have no problem talking about cosmetic enhancements.”
Indeed, just two months ago, the rapper, 26, wished her Beverly Hills surgeon Dr Ashkan Ghavami happy birthday and thanked him for her “fabulous nose and breasts”.
Brielle Biermann, daughter of reality star Kim Zolciak-Biermann, also says she has nothing to be sorry about, claiming she’s always “been very open” about her manipulated mug.
While the 19-year-old admits to lip fillers, she’s also rumoured to have had a nose job and has allegedly been advised by her surgery-loving mum to go in for a boob job!
Worryingly, the former Real Housewives Of Atlanta star, 38, is the one who took Brielle to get her first lip injections.
“Everyone freaked out because I went with her,” Kim says. “But I feel like you should just be honest.”
Hmm, whatever happened to good old fashioned mother-daughter mani-pedis?!
Brielle admits to lip fillers and is also rumoured to have had a nose job
Meanwhile, Kaley Cuoco, 31, boasts that going under the knife early in her career was the “best thing I ever did”. The Big Bang Theory actress – who, on top of having nose and boob jobs, had filler put into a line in her neck – is very vocal about the fact she believes it’s not what’s on the inside that counts.
“As much as you want to love your inner self… I’m sorry, you also want to look good.”
It’s a sentiment that worries Dr Mann, who suggests these women don’t feel any obligation to their fans.
“Maybe they don’t care,” she explains. “A lot of celebrities probably feel that being a role model isn’t part of their job.”
Even if it were, it wouldn’t stop Geordie Shore stars Chloe Ferry and Holly Hagan.
“I think if you don’t like something and you’ve got the money, just do it,” Chloe says of transforming her face with lip filler, eyebrow-lift injections, veneers and Botox.
“I feel like I look a lot better now,” the reality star, 21, brags. “I don’t like natural.”
And if you think she’s morphing into Kylie Jenner territory, you’d be right.
“Every single girl wants to look like her,” Chloe says of her idol, “but I just get the backlash because I’m in the public eye.”
Chloe Ferry has totally transformed her face…
As for Holly, 24, while she reckons the minimum age for surgery in the UK should be 21, not 18, because “that’s too young to make the right decisions”, she doesn’t care if people think her boob jobs, lip fillers and Botox injections are sending out the wrong message. Instead, she insists that she “feels great”.
They film it for their fans!
UK Big Brother star Chantelle Houghton doesn’t just brag about the work she’s had done – she shares the cringe-worthy videos on social media!
“I think I got addicted to lip fillers,” admits Chantelle, 33, who visibly winces in the clips as her lips are being plumped.
“I wanted to keep doing it and keep doing it and see how far I could push myself.”
Also getting in on the action? Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham, 25.
In November 2015, the self-confessed plastic surgery junkie and mother-of-one uploaded several intense videos of her lip and face injections to social media.
“All plump and pretty,” she captioned the post.
Chantelle uploaded her lip injections to social media…
Next level obsession
Being plump and pretty is something Olivia Newton-John’s daughter Chloe Lattanzi is more than familiar with.
Reports suggest the budding singer, 30, has dropped a whopping $400,000 on her obsession with looking like Barbie.
It all started with lip fillers when she was just 18. “I didn’t have a clear sense of myself so I had my lips plumped up,” Chloe reveals.
And while she confesses that they left her looking “ridiculous”, it didn’t stop her from getting more surgery, including regular Botox injections, a nose job, breast implants, as well as rumoured waist and thigh sculpting. Yikes!
But Dr Mann says there’s more to surgery than, er, meets the eye.
“A lot of the time there’s an inner problem when you look to plastic surgery as a bandaid,” she says.
“Even after surgery, you still have the wound and the wound still needs to be treated.
“[Many] would be better off getting therapy to fix [their] self-esteem issues. When you open the door to plastic surgery at such a young age, it’ll become a never-ending problem.”
Chloe has reportedly dropped a whopping $400,000 on her obsession with looking like Barbie
Charlotte Crosby
After her nose job last February, former Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby, 26, said her surgeon made her the “happiest girl in the world”.
And as for her fuller pout? She’s been plumping her lips with filler every five months for the last two years. Now that’s, er, dedication!
“I was getting mine done way before Kylie Jenner got trendy,” she brags.
Chloe Ferry
Last July, Geordie bosses reportedly banned “addicted” Chloe from undergoing any more cosmetic surgery.
“They aren’t happy with how much she’s tweaked her look,” a source spills. “She has become an idol to young girls and they don’t want to be seen promoting surgery and urging young viewers to be unhappy with their appearance.”
