Soap stars are among the most exposed celebrities with their faces plastered onto our screens five days a week.
So it’s understandable that they would want to look their very best.
Some of your favorite stars on the Young and the Restless have also gotten some work done.
Judge for yourself as we take a look back at four of the biggest actresses on Y&R that
have turned to plastic surgery to enhance their appearance.
First we have late soap veteran Jeanne Cooper who made history by portraying her real-life
plastic surgery on television, a feat which led her to be a facelift pioneer.
Best known as Katherine Chancellor on The Young and the Restless, the actress made waves
in the 80s, when she requested the producers to write her real life face-lift into the storyline.
So in 1984, her Y&R character underwent the same facelift procedure that the actress did.
Her entire facelift was videotaped and used on the show.
Thousands of fans watched on as the bandages came off, revealing Cooper’s new face.
she told the hosts of The Talk in 2012.
Her plastic surgery paved the path for so many people to get reconstructive surgery
and improve their appearance.
The actress shared that they would come up to her and thank her for showing her facelift on television.
“That was an incredible experience in my life,” she told the Washington Times.
Years later, actress Michelle Stafford, who plays Phyllis Summers, followed Cooper’s
footsteps as she filmed herself getting a skin-tightening treatment.
In 2018, she was seen in a segment for Extra TV where she let the cameras film her procedure
performed by Dr. John Layke of the Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery Group.
The procedure she got is called Forma, a skin tightening process that stimulates collagen
to give you a well-rested look.
You can get Forma all over your body and Michelle has done the treatment on her neck and arms.
Additionally, she got botox on her neck.
Just like Michelle, her co-star Eileen Davidson also chose a non-surgical treatment to keep
her face looking young.
Davidson, who has played Ashely Abbott on the soap since 1982, revealed on her Instagram
that she uses an LED mask called the Kahuna Mask.
“ I’ve used it twice and can already see that lines and wrinkles are softening!
Super excited to see what happens in the next week!” she wrote in the caption.
Another big Y&R name that has admitted to getting plastic surgery and the last one on
our list is the Newman matriarch portrayer Melody Thomas Scott.
The actress candidly talked about her plastic surgery experience in her 2020 memoir, Always
Young and Restless: My Life On and Off America’s #1 Daytime Drama.
Scott recalled in her book that she got a chin lift to get rid of her double chin.
Never having tried Botox or fillers before, she decided to get a chin lift after seeing her profile in Y&R episodes.
She revealed that her multiple chins reminded her of her estranged mother, someone who she
didn’t want to be reminded of.
she said in an interview.
That’s it for this video!
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