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Kathy Griffin revealed that she has had a third facelift, as well as work done to her eyelids and chin done, in recent weeks
The comic name-dropped the doctor that performed her procedure and shared details about her surgery and recovery process
She said that getting cosmetic work done is “painful”
Kathy Griffin isn’t afraid to share the details of her cosmetic procedures.
The comedian, 64, sat down for another episode of her Talk Your Head Off podcast on Tuesday, Aug. 5, and revealed that she recently had a third facelift, which was performed by Beverly Hills-based celebrity plastic surgeon, Dr. Ben Talei.
“It’s my third. I know that’s so vain! I’m so vain for no reason. No one has ever gone to a Kathy Griffin show to see her beautiful, youthful face,” she told her viewers.
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“You come to hear my jokes, which is what I want,” Griffin continued, “I don’t want you to come to care what I look like. I’m in Lululemons today for God’s sake. I’m in my fat pants.”
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Kathy Griffin during Comedy Central’s First Annual Commie Awards.
Elsewhere in the video, she revealed that her plastic surgery also included an “upper eye job” (a blepharoplasty), that included a “cat eye stitch” to give her eyes a lift at the corners. While she didn’t name a specific procedure, Griffin shared that she got work done to her chin as well.
“There’s a stitch in my chin, which you’re probably not going to see unless you’re under me, but not in that way,” she joked.
She also took a brief moment in recounting her experience to call out people who downplay plastic surgery pain, and said, “I’m going to be honest. It’s painful. So these bitches that are like, ‘It’s like getting a tooth filled! It’s nothing!’ No, it’s painful.”
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Kathy Griffin in 2015
After getting her work completed, Griffin explained that she went to a “rich lady recovery place” for her healing process. She was then sent home with a nurse and described the first few days after the procedure as “disgusting.”
“You get out of that place and you come home and maybe you come home with a nurse, and it’s disgusting,” she said. “I’m not going to lie. The first night there’s drains that come out of your chin. I know it’s so gross. But the vanity takes over.”
Griffin’s latest YouTube video is far from the first time that she’s opened up about her plastic surgery and past struggles with her appearance. In her 2009 book, Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin, she revealed that she got a nose job at 26 due to Hollywood pressures.
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“I was told repeatedly, ‘You would be pretty if it weren’t for that nose. You’d work more if it weren’t for that nose. Hey have you considered getting a nose job? You would think I had a nose the size of Texas,” she wrote. “I was young and impressionable and I was told that enough that I started to believe it, so I got a nose job.”
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