Kathy Griffin, who has built a career around her life on the D-List, has engaged in her fair share of celebrity behavior, including plastic surgery. But, she’s vocal about her regrets.
Comedian Kathy Griffin began her dance with the surgeon’s knife at age 26, when she underwent a rhinoplasty. Since then, she has made several return visits for cosmetic procedures, a fact she has never tried to hide. But, now, the D-list starlet has finally found inner peace, and is no longer concerned about her appearance.
“What I can’t figure out is why I wasted time worrying about my looks,” she told People magazine. “I am a comedian. I’m not on the runway in Milan. Believe it or not, people don’t come to see me really thinking I’m going to look like Jennifer Aniston.”
Apparently, she didn’t always believe this. Griffin recently confessed to Oprah that she’s had a face lift, eye lift, brow lift, Botox injections, facial resurfacing and microdermabrasion, among other operations. “I’ve been off the junk, as I call it, for five years,” said Griffin, whose memoir, Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin, hits store shelves this month. “I’ve had a face lift, eye job and all that stuff five years ago. It didn’t get me happier or didn’t make me look particularly younger.”
Griffin tried to not only turn back the hands of time, but also reduce her weight. Career demands from a co-starring role on Suddenly Susan led Griffin to shed 15 pounds during the first season. She worked to keep it off through crash diets, intense exercise and weight-loss pills. Still not satisfied, Griffin opted for liposuction in 1999 – with complications that were almost fatal. Today, Griffin said, she keeps her figure the old-fashioned way.
“Staying in shape is a struggle,” she told People. “I struggle with it every day. I just came from a very healthy lunch but the whole time I was having the healthy lunch I wished I was having cupcakes. It’s not a simple thing. I have to watch what I eat and I have to work out quite a bit.”
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