Some celebs are open about plastic surgery, while others are tight-lipped – or
even lie about it. Unsurprisingly, the Kardashian-Jenners have admitted to a lot.
Kim has the most famous curves in the Kardashian Klan. Her Jessica Rabbit figure has become the
impossible ideal many women aspire to. In 2014, her Internet-breaking bum was featured in an
iconic Paper Magazine cover. Kim K's body has been subject to criticism and adoration
alike. For every hater, there's somebody else trying to get a body just like hers.
Part of the secret to Kim's backside is the mystery surrounding it. She's always denied
having artificial enhancements, and, in a 2011 episode of KUWTK,
the then-31-year-old even got an on-camera x-ray to prove there weren't any implants.
But a source close to her spilled the tea to The Sun UK, revealing,
"Kim never had implants - it was a fat transfer into her butt.
She had it topped up every so often throughout her marriage to Kanye."
Kim herself has never admitted to alterations to her derrière. Either way,
if a body part could be an influencer, Kim K's butt would be a superstar.
The majority of the Karjenner women have admitted to having lip fillers, but the youngest sister,
Kylie Jenner, has based her entire career on the procedure. The 26-year-old started
getting hyaluronic acid fillers, which are temporary, in her lips when she was just 15.
"A guy said to me, 'Oh my God, you're such a good kisser, but you have such small lips.'"
"From then on, I felt unkissable."
This criticism led to Kylie Lip Kits, a set of lipstick and liner
meant to enhance everyday kissers. Kylie explained to Evening Standard,
"I was insecure about my lips, and lipstick is what made me feel confident."
In 2018, Kylie shocked fans when she posted a selfie without lip filler. They had been a staple!
But, as of 2023, the fillers are back, and, of course, the Kylie Lip Kits never went away.
The power behind the Kardashian-Jenner juggernaut
is the girls' "momager," 67-year-old Kris Jenner. But unlike her daughters,
Kris has been transparent about her time under the knife and syringe.
"Now you have not been shy about plastic surgery procedures."
"No, I usually film it all."
She even filmed her facelift. That's right. In preparation for her daughter
Kim's lavish second wedding in 2011, the proud mama scheduled a pinnacle facelift
to look her best. In between tears, Kris confessed her fear of dying on the table,
but she ultimately went through with it. The family surgeon, Dr. Fisher, who also
worked on Caitlyn Jenner, got Kris looking youthful and lifted in time for the big day.
Daughter Khloé Kardashian told Daily Mail,
"They say you are supposed to have a lot of swelling
for a week or so after, but I didn't notice."
It's been speculated that Kris has undergone a second lift in recent years, but, if so,
it's just as gorgeous and subtle as the first one.
In her interview for Good Work, Kris insisted no one in their family had their noses worked on,
but, years later, her daughter Khloé told a different story,
admitting to Andy Cohen that she had a nose job.
"I've done, sure, injections, not really botox. I've responded poorly to botox."
Khloé said she had her nose done out of insecurity resulting from viewer comments during early
seasons of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. But she owned what she'd done. Khloé even tweeted that
she'd gotten her nose reconstructed a couple of weeks before her daughter True's first birthday.
"Someone once said, 'The Kardashians are the
only people that took their birth faces as merely a suggestion.'"
And in an interview with Robin Roberts, Khloé spoke publicly about her procedure,
"I've always wanted my nose done,
forever. But it's in the middle of your face and it's scary to think about."
Kim K has been very open about her pregnancy journey. She has openly discussed trying to get
pregnant with then-husband Kanye West, developing placenta accreta during her two pregnancies,
her decision to have her two youngest children via surrogacy, and even the after-effects
of breastfeeding. One of the post-pregnancy procedures Kim opted for was stretch mark removal
with the help of cosmetic dermatologist Dr. Ourian. She explained to Entertainment Tonight,
"After breastfeeding North, I wasn't happy with the stretch marks on my boobs. [Coolbeam lasers]
treat stretch marks by resurfacing the top layer of skin, which increases collagen regeneration."
Kim had another noninvasive procedure on her torso: skin tightening. On her Instagram story,
Kim posted a photo of her undergoing another laser treatment, this time on her belly. She
praised the doctor and spa for using the Morpheus laser, which, although painful,
was worth it to the superstar. Looking at her now, it's hard to tell she was ever pregnant.
Out of all the Kardashian-Jenner surgeries, this one might be the most unexpected. Kris
was open about how she was bothered by the effects of aging on her neck and face,
but even her daughters were surprised to learn she was also insecure about her earlobes.
"I have the biggest earlobes in the universe."
She was so upset over their size she said she should wear earmuffs to hide them and
even demonstrated how she feels them flapping in her day-to-day life. Kris
was plagued by the knowledge that a person's nose and ears never stop growing, declaring,
"All I want is just cute ears!"
So she decided to do something about it. Kris, with Kim by her side, went to Beverly Hills
facial plastic surgeon Dr. Jason B. Diamond to learn about the potential procedure. The
doctor explained the surgery is so simple it only takes 30 minutes and heals in three days, saying,
"[This surgery] alone will take five, 10 years off of you."
To Kris, being on the hunt for all things youthful, it sounded like the perfect fit.
"This is the new me. I'm gonna be known as the girl with the great earlobes."
Post-surgery, Kris's newfound confidence shone through as
she looked for new earrings to show off her now-dainty lobes.
From being the unmarried housewife to Scott Disick to her whirlwind
romance with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, the eldest Kardashian sister,
Kourtney, has gone through quite the public rebrand, including her thoughts on her body.
"I used to always say this. Like when I'm super skinny, just know I'm not happy."
The mother of three — and soon to be four — admitted she got her breasts done when she
was just 22. Her breast implants were even shown on an episode of
Keeping Up when a doctor gave Kourtney an x-ray to compare silicone implants
to Kim's implant-less rear. But she very publicly wishes she never went
under the knife. In a 2011 interview with Showbiz Spy, she shared her regret, saying,
"I was so cute before."
Although Kourtney has expressed interest in having the implants removed,
it's unknown whether she's since gone through with it.
Other than her chest, Kourtney has confirmed other noninvasive beauty secrets performed
by Dr. Diamond, including a process called Microneedling with PRP. In short,
patients get their own blood injected into their faces in order to make their skin more glowy,
which explains why the procedure's also known as the "vampire facial."
The biggest shock to the Karjenner storyline came when Kris' then husband,
the Olympic athlete formerly known as Bruce Jenner, now known as Caitlyn Jenner,
came out as transgender. Although she fathered the youngest girls in the dynasty, Kendall and Kylie,
she's been a paternal figure to the whole family ever since Robert Kardashian's passing. And that
didn't change when she came out and began her transition in 2015. Caitlyn admitted
to battling gender dysphoria all her life and even started hormone replacement therapy in
the 80s. But she put her transition on hold after meeting and marrying Kris.
Since their divorce, however, she's made great strides in her transition journey.
Caitlyn has made it clear that whatever she's done is no one's business, but she
has confirmed some of her body modifications. Pre-transition, she'd gotten a facelift and even
had facelift corrective surgery, but as part of her transition she underwent facial feminization.
This can include shaving of the forehead and Adam's apple, jaw contouring, a rhinoplasty,
lowering the hairline, and more. The I Am Cait star also opted for a breast augmentation.
And in 2017, Caitlyn underwent sex reassignment surgery. In her memoir,
The Secrets of My Life, Jenner wrote,
"I feel not only wonderful but liberated. I just want to have
all the right parts. I am also tired of tucking the damn thing in all the time."
She even joked about how "it" made her wildly successful daughters,
and that she was coming up on 20 grandchildren.
"I didn't cut it off. I just retired it. It was done."
The Kardashians have spent plenty of time denying their surgeries and procedures, something Kylie
regrets. When she first got her fillers as a teenager, she lied to her fans, telling Complex,
"I didn't want to be a bad influence. But they thought it was crazier that I
was lying about it because it was so obvious. I wish I had just been honest and upfront."
And withholding the truth about her cosmetic alterations isn't the only thing Kylie regrets. In
the penultimate episode of The Kardashians season 3, she told best friend Stassi Karanikolaou how
she'd gotten her breasts done in 2016, six months before her first pregnancy.
"I just wish, obviously, I never got them done to begin with."
This sudden confession confirmed speculations fans had for years
even though she'd denied having breast implants. Kylie is adamant about wanting
her daughter Stormi to take more care with her own body, saying,
"I would be heartbroken if she wanted to get her body
done at 19. She's the most beautiful thing ever."
Kylie went on to talk about how she wants to be a good example for Stormi, and that,
knowing what she knows now, if she could go back, she wouldn't do a thing to change her body.
Even before this admission, Kylie had already been voicing her concerns
about the sway her family has over young women and beauty standards.
"I just feel like we have huge influence and what are we doing with our power?"
These days, she seems to be going in a new direction.
Like her youngest daughter, Kris has been rethinking her stance on plastic surgery,
especially on breast implants.
"I had a boob job in the 80s, after four kids, because gravity took over."
In a revealing episode of Good Work, Kris told RuPaul,
"It was great for about 25 years. [...] And then, a couple years ago,
I felt like they were too big, and I felt matronly, and nothing fit anymore.
And suddenly it was like 'get them out.' so the same doctor who put them in - he took them out."
But Kris didn't go natural. She replaced the
implants with smaller ones and had a little lift while she was at it.
World famous model Kendall Jenner isn't only the one sibling without children but is also,
according to her, the least modified. Bad Bunny's new boo has been adamant
her whole career that she's never gone under the knife nor been poked by syringes. In 2016,
the then-21-year-old deleted her Instagram, and rumors that she was getting complete facial
reconstruction done spread like wildfire. She cleared up the rumors on The Ellen Show, saying,
"I just wanted a little bit of a break."
Shortly after the sudden departure from IG, Kendall appeared on a Facebook livestream with
her sister Kylie, wearing a full face beat, which is a rare occurrence for Kendall. So,
once again, fans speculated Kendall had gotten work done — specifically,
her lips filled. Kylie came to her sister's defense and explained that her now popular
overlining technique created Kendall's prominent new pout. But since Kylie's
infamous for fibbing about her own fillers, her word carried absolutely no weight,
and Kendall had to make her own statement to put the rumors to bed. She told E! Online,
"It's all so exhausting. As a model, why would I
have my face reconstructed? It doesn't even make sense."
Kendall has opened up about the stress all the accusations have caused her, saying,
"People forget that they're talking about real people who have real feelings and
actually live their everyday lives – for the most part – just like everyone else."
The whole Kardashian/Jenner squad seems to share this sentiment.
But "just like everyone else?" You can be the judge of that.