Rosie O’Donnell is opening up about her current facelift and whether or not she plans to have any extra beauty work performed.
“No, I don’t assume so,” the previous speak present host, 64, instructed E! Information on the 2026 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7.
O’Donnell stated she determined to get a facelift, regardless of beforehand being in opposition to the process, after shedding a substantial quantity of weight, which induced her to have extra pores and skin on her face.
“I’m on [diabetes and weight loss drug] Mounjaro for the final three years. I’ve diabetes, and I misplaced over 50 kilos after which was accountable for lots of the additional pores and skin that I had round my face,” she defined. “And there have been two strains that made me look unhappy. In Eire, folks would say, ‘Are you upset, darling? What’s the matter, love?’ and I’m like, ‘That’s simply my face. I’m not upset. It’s simply how I look.’”
The previous View cohost, who moved to Eire final yr, first shared her transformation in a Could 25 Substack submit, admitting that she initially felt the process “was a betrayal. Of feminism. Of growing older. Of our group of ladies worldwide.”
Nevertheless, since going beneath the knife in January, O’Donnell stated she needs to be open and trustworthy in regards to the work she’s had performed.
“Authenticity is the purpose in nowadays and instances, and individuals are mendacity about every thing all day to the American public. It’s very miserable to me and unsettling, and I believe all that issues is reality and love,” she stated. “And so, I needed to be truthful and say all of the difficult emotions I had about it.”
“I simply felt it was higher to be truthful than not, and I didn’t need some tabloid to go, ‘Gotcha!’” the comic went on. “I simply needed to say, ‘Right here’s what I did, right here’s the physician…’ and if you wish to, it’s very costly. It’s dearer than any automotive I ever purchased, however I can’t drive round in my face.”
Rosie O’Donnell stunned followers in Could 2025 by revealing a constructive replace on her weight reduction journey — which she credited to utilizing the remedy Mounjaro. The injectable drug (also called tirzepatide) is just like Ozempic and Wegovy in that it’s used primarily to deal with diabetes, however may also be efficient in weight […]
In her Substack submit, O’Donnell addressed how her look modified after shedding weight, writing, “It wasn’t wrinkles — it was gravity. I’d look within the mirror and assume, ‘This isn’t growing older, that is melting with intention.’ I attempted to be advanced about it and say issues like, ‘That is pure. That is earned.’ After which … ‘Umm, how earned does it should look?’ There’s some extent the place acceptance begins to really feel like mendacity.”
O’Donnell stated she enlisted a health care provider who had labored with a few of her mates and is happy with the outcomes of her process.
“I needed to nonetheless be me, simply … much less haunted. And I do seem like me — a barely extra well-rested, emotionally secure model of me,” she wrote.
“I didn’t disappear, I didn’t turn out to be another person — I simply stopped arguing with the mirror,” O’Donnell added. “And perhaps that’s sufficient. Or on the very least … it’s what a decrease deep aircraft facelift seems to be like when it minds its personal enterprise.”
