Celebrities who had eyelid surgery, on the record
Public figures who said in their own words that they had eyelid surgery, droopy eyelid (ptosis) repair, double eyelid surgery or a brow lift named alongside eyelid surgery. Each quote is verbatim, with its source and a second outlet.
The people
Sorted by the year of the statement, newest first. Tap a name for the full record.
Denise Richards
“He did everything. He did the neck, the lower face, the upper, the brow lift. The only thing he didn't do were my lower lids. He did my upper lids.”
Barbara Corcoran
“three facelifts, lower eyelid skin pinch, filler four times a year, brow lift, professional teeth whitening, fractional 1550 laser once a year”
Heather Gay
“I also got a blepharoplasty, which is an eyelid excision for opening up your eyes.”
Simone Biles
“Every time I would go to a shoot, they're like, 'Oh, can we put some [eye masks] on her?' And I was like, 'Oh, baby, I had 12 hours [of sleep] last night, these aren't going away. These are just hereditary.' So it's something that I wanted to fix.”
Josh Peck
“It's the best. It's really easy. They go all inside your eye. No scar, little lift, little tuck.”
Kerry Katona
“I'm feeling amazing after my eyelift surgery and can't believe how much it has healed already.”
Amanda Bynes
“I was never open about this before but I actually had blepharoplasty surgery on the skin folds and the corners of my eye. It was one of the best things I could have ever done for my self-confidence, and it made me feel a lot better in my skin.”
Jane Seymour
“My eyes were done when I was 40 and at the same time I had my boobs done.”
Ramona Singer
“So I really did it because I had 'a little hood,' ... my eye was a little droopy... I had a little excess skin.”
Vicki Gunvalson
“I'm happy with my nose and my chin, and I did my eyes.”
Jamie Lee Curtis
“I had a routine plastic surgery because of a cameraman. I naturally had puffy eyes.”
Dawn Ward
“I had excess skin on my upper lids. I'd try to mask it as much as I could with lots of makeup.”
Tamra Judge
“I did a lower facelift, where they pull from the neck and the lower jaw. ... Since he would have to cut underneath the eyelid and pull that skin up anyway, I was like, 'Why don't you just do my eyelids, too?' So I also got the upper eyelid lift at the same time.”
Kyuhyun
“Before debuting my management company suggested that I get double eye lid surgery to soften my image, but after five years the double eye lids started to disappear.”
Jessi
“I got cosmetic surgery for my eyelids and nose. At first, I cried because I looked like a monster.”
Hyolyn
“That's because I had a double eyelid surgery.”
Julie Chen Moonves
“He said, 'I cannot represent you unless you get plastic surgery to make your eyes look bigger.' ... After I had that done, the ball did roll for me.”
Patti Stanger
“my doctor suggested an eye lift. ... I felt pretty and like I could go out, date and compete with all the young girls”
Min Hyo-rin
“I didn't get a nose job. I got my eyelids done, but my nose is all natural.”
Shindong
“I wanted to gain popularity like my fellow members, that is the reason I decided to get double eyelid surgery.”
Betty White
“It's not nice to fool Mother Nature. But in 1976 I had my eyelids done. I scolded myself forever, but now I'm glad I did it.”
Burt Reynolds
“In the mid '80s, after some fights in a film, I had to have my eyes done. For one, I almost went blind because I got black powder in my eye. Also I had terrible sacks under my eyes from the many fist fights.”
Goo Hara
“I had double eyelids already but I got them pinched one more time by my company CEO's suggestion.”
Jane Fonda
“...some 'work' done on my chin and neck and had the bags taken away from under my eyes.”
Joan Rivers
“The first thing was get rid of the bags under my eyes, I had my nose thinned and my chin done and my neck done twice.”
Kenny Rogers
“Yeah I regret the results of the eye job but quite honestly I don't know what I'd look like if I hadn't done it and it may have been way worse.”
Phyllis Diller
“I decided to do the whole thing, neck, up above the eyes, below the eyes, whole new nose.”
Roseanne Barr
“No, it's awful. It's so scary -- and I had a nose job with the face lift and plus they made eyelids.”
Silvio Berlusconi
“I only had my eyelids retouched slightly.”
Dolly Parton
“Yes. I've had different things done. ... Yes, I've had my eyes done.”
Without a photo
- Jessi Ngatikaura · 2026 · Upper eyelid surgery · Lower eyelid surgery
“I went in for a lower bleph and then I asked about an upper bleph and ended up getting that. Did not want that [fat] grafting, to be honest.”
- Kathy Wakile · 2026 · Lower blepharoplasty
“Today I had a neck and lower facelift, along with a brow lift and lower blepharoplasty.”
- Jeff Lewis · 2021 · Lower eyelid surgery (fat repositioning)
“It's fat repositioning. ... They go inside my eyelid, but it doesn't change the shape of your eye.”
- Youn Yuh-jung · 2013 · Double eyelid surgery (suture method)
“My eyes were drooping, so I had them stitched a little.”
By procedure
Each statement sorted into the procedure library by the words the person used. A person who named more than one procedure appears in more than one row.
Method
Who qualifies
A person is listed when they said it themselves: in an interview, their own book, their own post or on a talk show. The quote is copied verbatim from a page fetched on the check date, and a second outlet reports the same statement. Rumor, comparisons of photographs, statements by others and denials are not recorded. A surgeon appears only when the patient named the surgeon.
Procedures
Procedures are recorded in the person's own words, then sorted into the procedure library by the words used. A statement that names the eyes but not a specific lid is sorted as eyelid surgery, with no upper or lower section.
Record
- Checked 2026-10-01
- Two outlets per statement
- Verbatim quotes only
Photo credits
Portraits come from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons Attribution, Attribution-ShareAlike or public domain terms.
- Denise Richards John Manard, CC BY-SA 4.0, Commons file
- Barbara Corcoran Philip Romano, CC BY-SA 4.0, Commons file
- Heather Gay CityLimitsJunction, CC BY-SA 4.0, Commons file
- Simone Biles Ocoudis, CC BY-SA 4.0, Commons file
- Josh Peck Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Commons file
- Kerry Katona HeatRadioCelebs, CC BY 2.0, Commons file
- Amanda Bynes The Heart Truth, Public domain, Commons file
- Jane Seymour Toglenn, CC BY-SA 4.0, Commons file
- Ramona Singer mikeg44311, CC BY 2.0, Commons file
- Vicki Gunvalson Gina Hughes, CC BY 3.0, Commons file
- Jamie Lee Curtis Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Commons file
- Dawn Ward Anything Goes With James English, CC BY 3.0, Commons file
- Tamra Judge CleaningQuickie, CC BY 2.0, Commons file
- Kyuhyun 디스패치 (Dispatch), CC BY 3.0, Commons file
- Jessi Like a Fool, CC BY 4.0, Commons file
- Hyolyn SBS Radio, CC BY 4.0, Commons file
- Julie Chen Moonves David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, Commons file
- Patti Stanger Fred Rockwood from Simi Valley, CA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Commons file
- Min Hyo-rin dispatchsns, CC BY 3.0, Commons file
- Shindong 신동의품격, CC BY 4.0, Commons file
- Betty White David Shankbone, CC BY 2.0, Commons file
- Burt Reynolds Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, Commons file
- Goo Hara HeyDay, CC BY 4.0, Commons file
- Jane Fonda Colleen Sturtevant, CC BY-SA 4.0, Commons file
- Joan Rivers Roy Silver, Public domain, Commons file
- Kenny Rogers John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com, CC BY-SA 2.0, Commons file
- Phyllis Diller Allan Warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Commons file
- Roseanne Barr Leah Mark, CC BY-SA 2.0, Commons file
- Silvio Berlusconi www.la-moncloa.es; derivative work: Off2riorob, Public domain, Commons file
- Dolly Parton David Gahr, Public domain, Commons file