Rosie O’Donnell is getting a makeover after vowing not to have plastic surgery

After losing 50 pounds, Rosie O’Donnell – who once vowed not to have plastic surgery – got a makeover.

In an intimate and touching story, the comedian and former talk show host opened up about battling an unimaginable amount of guilt and shame after undergoing cosmetic surgery earlier this year.

“I used to feel very strongly about facelifts,” she wrote on Substack. “Not recklessly – morally. I had put myself at the head of all the women who would never – ever. I thought it was a betrayal. Of femininity. Of aging. Of our group of women around the world. Then I lost 50 pounds.”

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“It wasn’t wrinkles — it was gravity. I’d look in the mirror and think, this isn’t aging, this is melting on purpose. I tried to be transformed by it. And you say things like, ‘This is natural. This is earned.’ Then… ‘umm how much money should it look like?’ There’s a point where acceptance starts to feel like lying.”

O’Donnell said that when he started doing his own research, his 13-year-old son, Clay, did not agree with this decision.

“Then my 13-year-old got it. And it wasn’t subtle. ‘You’ve earned your wrinkles.’ Which is – first of all – rude. But again… it’s okay,” O’Donnell wrote. “Then Clay said, ‘Young women look up to you,’ And finally – with a powerful effect – ‘I couldn’t respect you if you did.’ And that… stayed. That’s a lot of talk from someone who still needs you to open jars.”

O’Donnell said he saw his childhood in Clay, a version of himself who judged himself by his looks.

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Rosie O’Donnell has admitted that she felt very guilty, ashamed and delusional after having her cosmetic procedure. (Stefanie Keenan)

“It really threw me off. I delayed everything for months, sitting with it, thinking,” he admitted. “And then I had this quiet realization: if I teach clay anything, it won’t be that my body is an idea either. Not even a good mind. Not even to love women.”

“Because that’s not freedom anymore — that’s a different mandate that tells you what you’re allowed to do with your face,” he continued.

After months of back and forth, O’Donnell was rectified in January.

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“I wanted an edge. I wanted to be me, just… carefree,” she wrote. “And I look like me – a slightly more relaxed, emotionally stable version of myself.”

The comedian said “no one has noticed” the changes, not even his young daughter.

O’Donnell said no one noticed he was getting a face lift. (Getty Images)

“I went through the full feminist crisis, had my face and neck changed through surgery, and the result was…zippo,” she wrote. “Which is honestly 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 least…that’s what a deep-down plane facelift looks like when it’s minding its own business.”

Despite the positive outcome, O’Donnell said he began to struggle with a large amount of guilt and deceit.

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“I’ve never liked secrets and it’s part of my desire to prove myself innocent. But who do I owe that truth to? Is it mine to keep?”

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O’Donnell said he felt “ashamed” of his privileged place in the world, admitting that the facelift “cost more than I ever paid for a car.”

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“The things I have – others say it, but it’s the exaggeration that hurts me,” he wrote.

“As I prepare for the last day of school with my youngest – the caboose here at 64 years old with a new face and neck, I’m just happy that I’m still alive, able to hear and choose and use my voice whenever I hear it called … For the girl that I was, the woman that I am, and all who join my ranks. As we continue in Act 3, this is me.”