Rosie O'Donnell Reveals She Had a Face Lift and Fans Are Doing a Double Take
Rosie O'Donnell just revealed that she underwent a facelift.
The legendary comedian and former talk show host, 64, took to her Substack page to share a deeply personal essay about how she previously vowed never to have plastic surgery. However, she had a change of heart earlier this year when she decided to have a lower deep plane facelift.
"I used to feel very strongly about facelifts," O'Donnell wrote on Substack. "Not casually - morally. I had assigned myself as head of all women who would never - ever. I thought it was a betrayal. Of feminism. Of aging. Of our team of women worldwide. And then I lost 50 pounds."
Feeling like gravity was getting the best of her after her dramatic weight loss, O'Donnell would look in the mirror and say, "This isn't aging, this is melting with intention." Her 13-year-old child, Clay, didn't like the idea of plastic surgery, telling O'Donnell she "earned her wrinkles." While she put off the procedure for months, she finally went under the knife in January.
O'Donnell shared a photo of her results on Instagram.
Dealing With the Results of Her Plastic Surgery
While O'Donnell liked the results of her facelift, she shared that she dealt with significant shame over going through with the process. After all, it "cost more money than I have ever paid for a car."
"I went through a full existential feminist crisis, had my face and neck surgically altered, and the result is… zippo," she wrote. "Which honestly is the best possible outcome. I didn't disappear, I didn't become someone else- I just stopped arguing with the mirror. And maybe that's enough. Or at the very least…it's what a lower deep plane face lift looks like when it minds its own business."
While O'Donnell feels the process is "gross excess," she admitted she's not at war with what she sees in the mirror anymore.
"As I get ready for the last day of school with my youngest - the caboose here at 64 years old with a new lower face and neck, just happy to be alive, able to feel and choose and use my voice whenever I feel called to," she said. "For the girl I was, the woman I am, and all those joining my ranks. As we carry on in act 3, this is me."
O'Donnell's Weight Loss Transformation
In the last couple of years, O'Donnell has been open about her 50-pound weight loss as a result of using Mounjaro. She went into more detail in a March 2025 TikTok video, sharing why she had started taking the medication. She also noted that, in addition to starting the medication to deal with her health issues, she had been spending more time cooking for her child, Clay.
"I've lost more weight. I am on Mounjaro for my diabetes and one of the side effects is you lose weight," she explained. "But it's also because I had a chef for over two years in Los Angeles and I don't have a chef now. It's me cooking for Clay and me."
@rosie tomorrow night im on irelands best talk show #thelatelateshow with host #patrickKIELTY - im honored and thrilled 😁- so tune in if u like 👍🏽 of its also my 63 rd birthday tomorrow! what a great way to celebrate- find me on substack - ROSIEODONNELL25 - with an orange check #speakkindlytoyourself
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This story was originally published May 26, 2026 at 10:19 AM.