Rosie O’Donnell has opened up about the guilt she felt after being forced under the knife for secret cosmetic surgery.
In a poem titled “Decision” posted on his Substack on Monday, the 64-year-old comedian explained that he feels “ashamed” of his privilege in the world.
Ms O’Donnell admitted that the cosmetic surgery cost her “more money” than she “ever paid” for a car.
“What I have, some say, is its excessive excess that hurts me,” the actress wrote.
But O’Donnell wasn’t always involved in elective surgeries.
“I used to have very strong feelings about facelifts,” she wrote. “Not casually, but morally. I have appointed myself to be the head of all women who will never have[a woman].”
O’Donnell recounted that she once thought a facelift was a “betrayal” of feminism, but that losing 50 pounds changed her mind.
As she looked in the mirror and faced gravity, the mother of five tried to reassure herself that it was “natural,” but that “acceptance” began to “feel like a lie.”
Meanwhile, O’Donnell’s child Clay, 13, tried to talk her out of it, telling the talk show host that her wrinkles were “of her own making.”
“First of all, that’s rude,” O’Donnell mused. “But… you’re right. Then Clay said, ‘Young women respect you.’ And then, finally, with great effect, ‘If you did that, I wouldn’t be able to respect you.’ And that… it landed.” ”
O’Donnell confessed that Clay’s voice sounded “exactly” like her younger self, which “disturbed” her.
“I delayed everything for months and just sat and thought about it,” she elaborated.
Ultimately, O’Donnell felt she needed to teach children that humans have the power to do whatever they want with their faces and bodies.
Now, the “A League of Their Own” star is happy with his results.
“I wanted to be the same person I always was, just… not get too obsessed with it,” O’Donnell said. “And I look like me, a slightly more well-rested, emotionally stable version of me.”
She added that “no one noticed” the facelift.
“I didn’t disappear, I didn’t become a different person, I just stopped arguing with the mirror,” O’Donnell said. “And maybe that’s all there is to it. Or at least…if you think about yourself, that’s what a facelift for a low-level depth plane would look like.”
The “Rosie Show” alumnus has decided that from now on, she will use her own voice whenever she feels called to do so.
As O’Donnell puts it, this is “this is who I am as the girl I was, this is who I am as the woman I am, and this is who I am to all those who join me as I continue my third act.”
On Monday, LadyGang co-creator Keltie Knight also revealed that she underwent secret cosmetic surgery and felt guilty about the procedure.
“I felt embarrassed to actually go through it,” she wrote in an essay for Glamor magazine. “I know younger women are getting facelifts and are proud of their decisions, but I was 41.”
“It was like haute couture. A facelift of haute couture,” the 44-year-old added.
