8 Male Celebrities Who Have Admitted to Cosmetic Procedures and Aren’t Ashamed of It
It is very rare to hear a celebrity talk about getting touch-ups to get rid of physical “imperfections” or for other health reasons. The latter is what happened with retired baseball player Sammy Sosa, who surprised many with his new skin tone that he got from creams to treat direct sun exposure of 20 years. There are also more extreme cases, such as Kanye West, who feared being made fun of for being fat and ended up undergoing liposuction.
1. Kanye West
The controversial rapper chatted with TMZ in 2018 and confessed he had to use liposuction in 2016 to lose weight. In West’s own words, he underwent cosmetic surgery in order to improve his appearance because he was afraid of being called fat.
2. Sammy Sosa
Sammy Sosa was a professional baseball player who gained popularity in the late 1990s. Loved and respected by many fans due to his success as an athlete, he surprised his entire fanbase when he appeared at an award ceremony with a different skin tone. Sosa said that the whitening of his skin was due to a cream he used that contained bleach.
3. Joe Jonas
The 33-year-old musician opened up about using botox injections. “We’re all getting older and part of that is being comfortable [in our skin]”, he says, “I don’t think it’s necessarily something that we have to shy away from”.
4. Christian Bale
The actor told that he had dental work to make his teeth look better for American Psycho in 2000. “I liked my old teeth. But with Patrick Bateman, his physicality is much more important than with most characters. He deals totally with the superficial, and he’s incredibly narcissistic. I looked at myself in the mirror and it just wasn’t right”, says Christian. Since then he has had a Hollywood smile.
5. Sylvester Stallone
Stallone has undergone a huge transformation over the years. In fact, he’s one of the few celebrities who spoke openly about the subject back in the 1990s. “Why not do it?” he said about the surgeries to People.
It turns out that when Stallone’s mom was giving birth, the doctor used forceps to deliver him, and the nerves on the left side of his face, as a baby, were destroyed, leaving him with a crooked mouth. The story continued when Stallone lost weight for Rocky, which made this facial feature more noticeable. It then became clear that he could only change it with surgery. But things didn’t stop there. Some sites specializing in this type of treatment have noted that Stallone may have had other things done.
6. Josh Hutcherson
“Just had surgery to fix my broken nose...” was part of the message posted by The Hunger Games actor on Twitter in 2012. However, his rep corrected the information, saying that the surgery was to repair his deviated septum.
7. Enrique Iglesias
Fans who have been following Enrique Iglesias since his early days know that the Spaniard had a mole on his face. However, Iglesias went to a specialist to remove it just in case it could be cancerous. The procedure was not done for aesthetic reasons, but for health, and it only took 5 minutes.
8. Gene Simmons
The rock star is a self-confessed fanatic of plastic surgery, which he has undergone along with his wife, Shannon Tweed. So far, he has hoisted his jowls, tweaked his eyelids, and liposucked his pecs, among other procedures.
How do you think these celebrities feel about cosmetic surgery and treatments? What retouching would you like to have done?