Fame can change people.
Once they hit it big, some celebs forget where they came from, while others use their fortune
to revamp their lives.
This crop of celebs switched up their looks once they got famous, with a few of them actually
grabbing more headlines for transforming their faces.
Madonna
She has been blonde for most of her career, but Madonna has never hidden the fact that
she's a natural brunette, as shown in this throwback snap.
But by the time 1984 rolled around, the singer had already opted for lighter locks.
Since then, Madonna has been a style chameleon, experimenting with everything from cornrows
to a golden ponytail at the height of her fame, but it was that initial dip in the bleach
bucket that transformed her from midwest beauty into bombshell diva.
And she wasn't the only pop icon to tint her tresses.
Lady Gaga
Both Madonna and Gaga are natural brunettes from Italian working class families, who both
went blonde when fame came calling.
In his book, Rivington Was Ours, Gaga's former DJ and friend, Brendan Jay Sullivan, recalls
Gaga's makeover moment, writing, "Bleaching the surface of her hair made Gaga walk like
a star."
Gaga's hair and wardrobe changes all the time, but just like her "Material Girl" predecessor,
hair dye kickstarted her style revolution.
Kylie Jenner
When we first met Kylie, she was an itty bitty Jenner, with average-sized lips.
But as her fame increased in 2015, so did the size of her pucker.
"Your lips look amazing.
"Really?
Kendall said they were too big yesterday."
"Are you talking about her lips?"
Her inflated pout was a hot topic for much of the year, yet the reality starlet defiantly
attributed her puffy pucker to deftness with lip liner and lipstick.
She eventually admitted to getting injectable fillers on Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
"I have temporary lip fillers it's just an insecurity of mine and it's what I wanted
to do."
She then parlayed the whole controversy into a highly successful lip kit line, which Vanity
Fair reported earned her $8.7 million in its first year.
Katy Perry
The singer we know and love as Katy Perry didn't just change her name when she got famous.
Performing for years under her birth name, Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, Perry opted for
the indie rock look, sporting grunge-inspired clothes and an angsty layered bob.
But that original look was a non-starter.
So, along with a pivot towards a sexier, pop-driven sound, the "I Kissed a Girl" singer totally
revamped her look.
According to The Guardian, Perry says she "Created that character out of protection...I
didn't want to be Katheryn Hudson...so I decided to be someone else."
The new person she created has sported hair of all different shades of pink, blue, and
green since she achieved her massive fame.
Lisa Rinna
According to People, Lisa Rinna once referred to her lips as "the pink elephant in the room."
She remained famously silent about her puffy pout until she addressed it on her 2010 reality
show, Harry Loves Lisa...And then basically every other news outlet, immediately after.
"Silicon in the lip…
I don't know why I did it, I didn't need to do it, but I did it.
Then what happens, scar tissue forms, weird s--- starts to happen."
Rinna claims the inspiration behind her swollen smile was Barbara Hershey in Beaches.
She told People, quote, "I was crazy to even touch them in the first place."
Farrah Abraham
Teen Mom starlet Farrah Abraham has transmogrified before our very eyes.
She hasn't been shy about admitting that she got a little — okay, a lot — of help from
a plastic surgeon, receiving breast implants, rhinoplasty, lip fillers, and a chin implant
that she's since had removed.
She came clean about her extensive upgrades with Bethenny Frankel in 2014.
She also told RumorFix why she did it:
"I would consistently look in the mirror, and it was very sad.
I mean, you don't wanna hate your face when you look at yourself."
But Abraham didn't stop there, even telling Us Weekly that she wouldn't discourage her
young daughter, Sophia, from going under the knife, saying, "I feel like if [plastic surgery
is] not harming her and making her look better, and keeping her healthy into her older years,
I have no issues with that.”
Plastic surgery for health?
We'll keep our judging to ourselves.
Nicole Kidman
Oscar winner Nicole Kidman seems to be inexplicably defying time itself.
The only way you can even tell she's changed at all, really, is her hair, which was once
an amazing, frizzy mane.
Other than that, Kidman chalks up her longevity to nature's bounty, as she has apparently
sworn off artificial enhancements after an unpleasant experience.
She told La Repubblica, "I did try Botox, unfortunately, but I got out of it and now
I can finally move my face again."
Which is good, because it's a pretty nice face.
​Jennifer Grey
After hitting it big in Dirty Dancing, Jennifer Grey decided to have a little work done, so
two years after the film, she had a nose job, changing her life forever.
Grey later told The Mirror, "It was the nose job from hell...I went into the ­operating
room a ­celebrity and came out anonymous."
But compared to our next shocker, you may barely notice a change.
​Mickey Rourke
He was an 80's heartthrob, but in 1991 Mickey Rourke quit Hollywood to become a boxer — a
career choice that left him with some nasty souvenirs, like a twice-broken nose and a
smashed cheekbone.
So when it was time for his Hollywood return, Rourke made some noticeable changes to his
once-famous face.
He told The Daily Mail, "I had to have cartilage taken from my ear to rebuild my nose and a
couple of operations to scrape out the cartilage because the scar tissue wasn't healing properly...I
went to the wrong guy to put my face back together."
Thanks in part to the new look, Rourke's career was never the same.
Jamie Foxx
We're highlighting two transitional moments in Jamie Foxx's appearance.
While appearing on The Graham Norton Show, Foxx brought along this pre-fame pic of his
18-year-old self, in all his glory.
But the subtle difference between this pic from 2001, and this one from 2016, is that
hairline.
This was not lost on the internet, upon which much speculation over Foxx's magically reappearing
hairline has occurred.
Kevin Hart even famously checked Foxx on the issue, on Foxx's own radio show, Foxxhole,
saying "I bet we'd all be able to tell Jamie's real age if he stopped coloring his hairline."
So...it's not just the ladies of Hollywood who are under the microscope!
Ryan Seacrest
Once a chubby little kid from the South, Ryan Seacrest grew up into a guy who obsessively
squeezes workouts into his insanely busy schedule, and splurges on "the wrong amount of almonds."
In 1993, Seacrest was working as a DJ at WSTR-FM in Atlanta.
A decade later, he had just become the host of American Idol, a career move that would
skyrocket him to fame.
Over that decade, he seemed to lose a little weight, and ditched the Zack Morris haircut
for the early-2000's coiffe, transforming from handsome guy-next-door to celebrity TV
host.
​Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Superstar wrestler and actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson broke the internet with a throwback
Twitter pic which he captioned, "Fanny pack and lean take it to a whole other level..."
And, obviously, The Rock has had yet another breakthrough style evolution since this pic
from 2001.
We're not sure if he still rocks the fanny pack, but we're pretty sure nobody would give
him any crap about it if he does, since being jacked beyond belief is still an important
component to his swagger.
That being said, the internet never forgets.
Kim Zolciak
Though she's consistently denied getting a nose job, The Real Housewives of Atlanta star,
Kim Zolciak has admitted to having some work done.
On top of confessing what everyone already knew about her signature wigs and weaves,
Zolciak told ET that she's had her lips done, as well as gotten Botox since she was young
"for migraines initially and now it's the obvious reason."
Then there's the boob job, a tummy tuck, and something called a "skin-tightening treatment."
Considering how open she is about all that, she actually makes a good point when she says,
"Why would I not talk about a nose job?"
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