Rosie O'Donnell: I Got a Facelift and No One Noticed

Rosie O'Donnell says she broke a promise to herself this year, and that it cost more than any car she's ever bought. In a Substack post published on Monday, the 64-year-old comedian revealed she had a lower deep-plane facelift in January, despite long insisting she'd never surgically alter her face, calling such procedures a betrayal of feminism and aging, per People. After losing 50 pounds, however, O'Donnell wrote, "There's a point where acceptance starts to feel like lying" and began researching surgeons—even as her 13-year-old child, Clay, urged her not to do it, warning, "I wouldn't be able to respect you if you did it."

O'Donnell went ahead with the procedure anyway, framing it as a lesson for her five kids on bodily autonomy, and on how people shouldn't feel they must change—but that they can choose to without "losing moral standing." She noted that the expensive surgery went largely unnoticed: "Not one person" has commented, including Clay, whom O'Donnell lives with in Ireland, per Today. O'Donnell likes the subtle result (she shared an apparently recent photo of herself on Instagram), but she admits to wrestling with a "sense of deceit," writing that she"s entering "Act 3" of life with a new lower face and neck, trying to balance her public principles with her private choices.