Whether cosmetic procedures are becoming more popular or it’s just becoming more popular to talk about them, it seems that now, more than ever, celebrities aren’t afraid to share their experiences with cosmetic procedures.
While some procedures are more invasive – like Kelly Rowland sharing she got breast implants at 18, Khloé Kardashian admitting she’s gotten rhinoplasty, and Chrissy Teigen revealing her experience with buccal fat pad excisions – there’s another, far more common treatment that stars have been getting for decades: injectables. These can range from a neuromodulator like Botox to dermal fillers and are often used to either smooth fine lines and wrinkles or address volume loss in the lips, face, or body.
Thankfully, public perception around the use of injectables has also begun to shift in the last few years, with more and more people speaking openly about treatment options. That includes a handful of celebrities, from Joe Jonas discussing getting a Botox alternative to Britney Spears sharing her botched experience. With the stigma lifting, hopefully, more people will feel comfortable talking about the injectables they use on a regular basis. Until then, take a look ahead at some of the stars who’ve discussed using injectables.
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Joe Jonas
Joe Jonas is the most recent celebrity to open up about using injectables after revealing his partnership with Xeomin, a Botox alternative used to specifically target wrinkles and frown lines. “I liked that it relieved the area a little bit and I was like, ‘OK, this is great,’ without it being too much for my liking,” Jonas told People magazine.
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Britney Spears
Britney Spears has recently revealed she’s considering Botox again after not having the best experience the first time she tried the treatment. “I’m really debating on getting botox,” Spears wrote in an Instagram caption in February 2022. “I think I’m getting subtle lines on my forehead, but the last time I did it, my eyebrow was raised like the funny girl in the movie ‘Just Go With It.’ For 3 weeks it wouldn’t come down, it stayed up there,” she added.
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Courteney Cox
Courteney Cox revealed back in 2017 that she used to get fillers and has since stopped. In an interview with New Beauty, she said, “Well, what would end up happening is that you go to a doctor who would say, ‘You look great, but what would help is a little injection here or filler there,'” she told the publication. Then, other people would tell her about doctors who made their patients look “so natural,” and before she knew it, the injections were “layered and layered and layered” over time. “You have no idea because it’s gradual until you go, ‘Oh sh*t, this doesn’t look right,'” she said.
She has since gotten the filler dissolved, and the actor says she is expecting – and comfortable with – her skin “dropping” in the coming years.
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Kylie Jenner
After years of speculation, Kylie Jenner opened up about getting lip filler on her reality TV series “The Life of Kylie.” She said, “I had really small lips. It was one of my first kisses, and a guy said, ‘I didn’t think you were going to be such a good kisser because your lips are so small.’ I took that really hard. Just . . . when a guy you like says that, it really affected me. I didn’t feel desirable or pretty.” Jenner did go on to become a multimillionaire thanks to her beauty company Kylie Cosmetics, founded entirely around the concept of her lips, so it seems she got the last laugh after all.
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Cardi B
In an interview with GQ in 2018, Cardi B said she got illegal butt injections when she was 21 after seeing her colleagues with curvier figures were making more money stripping than she was. “They don’t numb your ass with anything,” she said. “It was the craziest pain ever. I felt like I was gonna pass out. I felt a little dizzy. And it leaks for, like, five days.”
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Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow was also the face of Xeomin in 2020 and detailed how much she enjoyed using the injectable, particularly after a bad experience with a dermatologist. “I had a midlife crisis when I turned 40, and I went to go see this doctor. It was a disaster. I didn’t do anything else for a long, long time. I was bruised, my forehead was completely frozen, and I didn’t look like myself at all,” Paltrow told Harper’s Bazaar.
