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Rosie O’Donnell is pulling back the curtain on her latest plastic surgery.
One day after O’Donnell, 64, shared she had plastic surgery Instagram Showing side-by-side photos of her before and after.
“B4 and beyond,” O’Donnell showed off her results in a post on Wednesday, May 27, sharing information about her story on Substack.
In a lengthy poem titled “Decision” shared via her Substack , O’Donnell speaks candidly about Why is she going through this? This is despite previous opposition to the process.
While some people prefer to keep a low profile when it comes to undergoing plastic surgery, celebrities including Denise Richards, Jessi Ngatikaura of “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” and Heidi Montag have stayed candid. After some of her enhancements were revoked in 2013, Montag exclusively revealed to Us Weekly that she struggled with the decision. Thank you! You have successfully subscribed. (…)
“I used to feel very strongly about plastic surgery. Not casually, but morally. I positioned myself as a leader for all women who would never do it,” she wrote. “I thought it was a betrayal. A betrayal of feminism. A betrayal of aging. A betrayal of our team of women around the world. And then I lost 50 pounds…”
She continued, “It’s not wrinkles, it’s gravity. I look in the mirror and think, this isn’t aging, this is intentional melting. I try to get better at that. And say, ‘This is natural. This is earned.’ And then…” Well, how worthy does it look? “There comes a point where acceptance starts to feel like a lie.”
As O’Donnell began gathering “information” about the surgery, her 13-year-old child, Clay, discovered she was considering surgery and tried to change her mind. (O’Donnell is Also the mother Vivian, Blake, Chelsea and Parker. )
“‘You deserve the wrinkles,'” she remembers Clay telling her. “It was – first of all – rude. But also… correct. Then Clay said, ‘Young women respect you.’ And finally – to great effect – ‘I wouldn’t be able to respect you if you did that.’ “Then that… landed.”
O’Donnell noted that Clay sounded “exactly” like her younger self, which “really shocked[her].” O’Donnell ended up postponing “the whole thing for a few months” while he continued to think about it. Eventually, O’Donnell realized she needed to tell Clay that the body did not “belong as an idea.”
“Because it’s still not freedom — it’s just a different authority telling you what you can do with your face,” she explains. “I want (Clay) to grow up in a world where they don’t feel like they have to change, but also know that they can change if they want to without losing their moral standing in life.”
In January, O’Donnell underwent plastic surgery.
“Just before I collapsed, I grabbed the doctor’s hand and said, ‘I will never say, ‘God, I wish you did more.'” I meant it,” she recalled. “I didn’t want to be that voice—the one who kept moving the goalposts, the one who was never satisfied, the one who turned his face into a problem that could never be fully solved. I want a limit. I guess it’s still me, just… less bothered. I definitely look like me—the better-rested, more emotionally stable me. “
Since then, O’Donnell claims “no one noticed” the change in her face.
“I didn’t disappear, I didn’t become a different person — I just stopped arguing with the mirror,” she added. “Maybe that’s enough. Or at least…that’s what a lower deep plane face lift looks like when it’s just minding its own business.”
O’Donnell concluded: “As I prepare for the last day of school with my youngest child, Caboose, at 64 years old, with a new face and neck, happy to be alive and able to feel and choose and have a voice when needed, because I am a girl, a woman, and for everyone who joins me as we move on to Act Three, this is who I am.”