Americans spend billions annually on cosmetic procedures, and some of these plastic surgery
clients are your favorite stars.
Unfortunately, things don't always go according to plan.
In fact, sometimes things go terribly wrong.
Brace yourself for these embarrassing celebrity plastic surgery blunders.
"My name is Farrah Abraham, and my lips blew up on social media."
Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham didn't let a botched lip procedure ruin her passion for
plastic surgery, even if the ordeal was terrifying.
During the harrowing experience, which she discussed on The Doctors, the starlet admitted
her lips swelled up before she even got a single permanent injection.
"As soon as he touched my lip with whatever numbing product he was putting in there, my
lip was having an allergic reaction."
Due to the seriousness of the situation, she was rushed to the E.R.
"I'm just really thankful that I'm alive."
Abraham visited with the doctors on E!'s hit series Botched, who told her just how risky
that snafu really was.
Dr. Terry Dubrow warned her,
But this wasn't Abraham's only plastic surgery blunder.
According to The Mirror, the star had a breast augmentation procedure for the third time
in 2015 to fix "burning and pain issues" from surgeries past.
And it seems like her young daughter Sophia has also caught the vanity bug because she
reportedly already asked her mama for veneers.
Khloe Kardashian is no stranger to amazing transformations.
According to Us Weekly, the reality star started hitting the gym to de-stress during her divorce
from Lamar Odom and ended up sticking with it.
But the Revenge Body host didn't stop there.
After giving birth to her baby girl, True, in 2018, Kardashian was "almost back to pre-baby
weight" in a matter of months, according to People.
But as far as transformations go, Kardashian probably isn't rating her foray into facial
fillers anywhere near the top of the list.
"I don't know if it's Botox or filler like I don't, everyone says well which, I did one
of them, my whole face went numb, and I could not make, I had to dissolve everything."
Though plumped-up lips proved to be sibling Kylie Jenner's claim to fame, a plumper pout
didn't do the same for Khloe.
The starlet admitted that she felt like it left her face totally messed up.
She said on an episode of her show, Kocktails with Khloe,
Kathy Griffin has always been a comic of great controversy.
She went from My Life on the D-List to life on the blacklist, following an unfortunate
social media scandal that led her straight into a Secret Service investigation.
While she always manages to bounce back, this habit of flirting with disaster also includes
cosmetic procedures.
While Griffin had been open about the work she's had done, in a makeup tutorial with
mogul Jeffree Star, the comedian admitted that she kicked the plastic surgery habit
because:
"I realized I did not turn into Jennifer Aniston, which was the plan."
The star claims she was "botched by Botched" in the early aughts following an upper-lip
chemical peel performed by one of the doctors on E!'s reality show.
She was supposedly left with permanent discoloration, yet this was hardly the worst of it.
According to People, Griffin suffered near-fatal complications after receiving liposuction
on her "stomach, thighs, and the inside of [her] knees" in 1999.
She said,
Priscilla Presley is no pink Cadillac, but that didn't stop an alleged doctor from injecting
her face with what's essentially auto-shop grease.
The former wife of the King of Rock and Roll was subject to a terrifying plastic surgery
scam in the early aughts that put a gigolo behind bars.
TMZ reports that Priscilla saw Dr. Daniel Serrano sometime "around 2003."
The Argentinian doctor had been doling out alleged "miracle injections that worked better
than Botox" to Hollywood A-listers, which included Larry King's wife, Shawn King.
The price of each injection was no more than $500, and Serrano made house calls.
Seems like a dream come true, right?
Nope.
Serrano wasn't actually a licensed doctor.
According to the Daily Mail, he was "only licensed as a nurse" when Presley fell victim
to the scam.
Worse yet: His miracle injections were nothing more than low-grade industrial silicone, the
same stuff used to lube up your car when it's in the shop.
Denise Richards planned her 2018 surprise wedding in less than 48 hours, got a wedding
dress made in less than 24, and was voted "Worst Bond Girl Ever," yet still emerged
as an achingly beautiful actress-slash-model-slash-reality star.
Still, even Richards isn't immune to the odd plastic surgery disaster.
"Is this all gonna be on the internet?
"Oh yeah."
"Oh okay."
She admitted to Us Weekly that she regrets getting a boob job, saying she was just 19
years old and didn't properly research her doctor because she was in "such a hurry" to
have larger breasts.
He ended up putting in "bigger implants" than she requested.
She had a second breast surgery to correct the issue but somehow emerged with even bigger
implants.
She said,
Richards eventually got a third surgery to get the size she had always wanted.
She told the mag,
Cardi B's plastic surgery story was bred partly from money moves and partly from insecurity.
According to GQ, the rap superstar initially got butt implants to make more money while
stripping, but also because her boyfriend had cheated on her with a woman who had, well,
a lotta junk in her trunk.
"I used to get poppin in that pole, you know what I'm saying?"
The rapper told Vlad TV,
"I was desperate to have a bigger ass, and then almost every girl was going to this lady…
and it's like, 'Well, give me her number and hook me up.'"
Cardi's procedure, which is banned in the States, cost her just $800 but was "the craziest
pain" she'd ever experienced.
The "Bodak Yellow" star told GQ that it hurt so much she thought she might "pass out."
The injection reportedly leaked for nearly a week, and by the time she went back for
a touch-up, the supposed "plastic surgeon" was reportedly in jail because someone allegedly
"died on her table."
Rumor has it Cardi's basement butt fillers didn't hold up so well during childbirth,
either.
We don't know if that's true, but the singer did claim on Instagram Live:
"My ass is broken.
Yo, this baby broke my ass."
Tori Spelling told Lenny that her daughter Stella was "shattered" to find out her boobs
were fake.
And as it turns out, Spelling isn't so thrilled about them, either.
Beyond calling them quote, "the worst ever," the actress endured complications since going
under the knife.
In a 2011 interview with Good Morning America, Spelling claimed that she'd never have gotten
her breasts done if she had known,
By 2014, she still wasn't pleased with her surgery situation, and her implants were hotly-debated
on her reality TV show, True Tori.
According to the Daily Mail, her breasts were "expired and recalled," were actually hardening,
and "should have been removed 15 years ago."
That's easier said than done, though.
Spelling worried about anesthesia and about her husband, Dean McDermott, not liking the
results.
She told the news outlet,
Vanderpump Rules star, Lala Kent, lives a very fearless lifestyle.
She's got no qualms about sucking down a baby bottle filled with warm milk before bed, dating
a married, older man (who's now her fiancé), and regularly telling off former BFF James
Kennedy.
Basically, Lala does what Lala wants, and if that means getting facial fillers, that
means getting facial fillers, at least, until it doesn't.
She told People,
"So, I've had every part of my face injected."
But she says she's breaking up with the cheekbone filler, and the Botox in her forehead and
lips because:
"I just feel like I look like a walking cat-duck.
It looks like a cat and a duck had a baby and that was me."
For a time, seeing Tara Reid in a bikini was as rare as an actual sharknado.
The actress famously covered up after a string of botched procedures in the early '00s.
According to Us Weekly, she didn't publicly wear a two-piece bathing suit for more than
five years.
So what happened?
In 2006, the actress told the mag that her surgeon increased the size of her breast implants
despite her request for "big B's."
An accidental 2004 nip slip revealed things were even worse than the tabloids thought,
and the subsequent photos that circulated online "devastated" the star.
Reid also received body contouring from the same doctor, which had similarly horrifying
results.
She said,
Reid eventually had corrective surgery, and today, she flaunts her figure like nobody's
business.
Heidi Montag had everyone's worst plastic surgery nightmare come true: She literally
died, if only for a minute.
According to Entertainment Tonight, the MTV reality star underwent almost a dozen surgeries,
ranging from "fat injections in her face" and "pinned-back ears" to breast implants
and a nose job, in the span of 24 hours.
Montag admitted it was a "rock-bottom moment" in her life, telling Paper,
"Spencer at one point thought that he lost me, like that I had died for a minute."
Heidi was in recovery, on Demerol for the extreme pain, when her security guards called
Spencer to tell him:
"Heidi's heart stopped, and all the nurses are in here, and everything.
It's like an emergency, and she's not gonna make it."
Today, Montag is a proud mother and she admits the later seasons of her reality show The
Hills are now hard to watch.
She told Entertainment Tonight,
"I was just making very reckless impulsive decisions. I was too young to be making decisions like that that are life altering."
It's no secret that people online are starting to look a whole lot like everyone else on
the internet thanks to the same filters and editing tools.
But back in the '80s, distinctive features set stars apart.
And no one knows this better than Jennifer Grey, who blames her nose job for what became
a major career setback.
"You don't wanna talk about your problem?"
"With you, are you serious?"
Grey rose to fame starring in 1987's Dirty Dancing.
Two years after the movie premiered, she got what she called "the nose job from hell."
In an interview with The Mirror, the star claimed,
Thankfully, some of her more recent endeavors don't require facial recognition.
She found success in the world of voice acting, where she spent six years voicing characters
on the animated series Phineas and Ferb.
She also landed a role in the short-lived Amazon Prime series Red Oaks.
"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
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