Brittany Cartwright Reveals Facial Liposuction Affected Her Appearance
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Brittany Cartwright is pumping the brakes on certain cosmetic treatments.
The Valley star recently addressed her appearance in the Bravo series—which is a new spinoff show of Vanderpump Rules—and revealed that she got liposuction on her face.
"I feel like almost all season long, I'm going to have a frown face," she said on her and estranged husband Jax Taylor's podcast When Reality Hits March 14. "And there is no context [in] the trailer of what is going on with my freaking mouth."
Brittany explained why she decided to go under the knife. "Three weeks before we started filming," she continued, "I had work done on my double chin. We call it the turkey gobbler, runs in my family."
In addition to getting liposuction, the 35-year-old also received the Morpheus8 treatment, which pairs microneedling with radiofrequency to stimulate collagen production.
"No matter what I was going through, no matter how much weight I lost, I still felt I had something there," she admitted. "It was just under my chin. But my doctors thought that my face would be back to normal by the time we started filming."
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Although Brittany noted she's "back to normal" following the procedures, she said her facial changes will be noticeable in The Valley series.
"It's going to look like whenever I'm upset or something, that I've got a frowning face," she described. "And in the beginning, it was so hilarious because I had to literally put my finger on my bottom lip so that I could speak because my bottom lip would not move up and down."
The reality TV star's honesty about her appearance is an example of her self-love journey.
After she and Jax, who share 2-year-old son Cruz, announced their split last month, Brittany made it clear she was prioritizing herself.
"I gotta put myself first," she exclusively told E! News at The Valley premiere party March 14. "I literally put Jax first my entire life and I think it's time for me to figure out what's best for myself and for my son, especially."
She added, "He's a great dad, not the best husband. So, we're gonna figure out what's best for us."
However, that doesn't mean Brittany isn't open to reconciling their marriage.
"I don't think anybody will ever love Jax the way I've loved Jax," she continued. "Over all these years, I've been through so much with him and stuck by his side. If he makes certain changes that I've asked, maybe we could get back together. But right now, I really need to figure out myself."
As she put it, "I felt really strong and really proud of myself for being able to step out and do what's right for me."
But before the drama unfolds on the first season of the Bravo series, raise a glass to all of the celebrities who have shared their plastic surgery experiences. After all, Brittany isn't the only star to SURve up the truth about her beauty procedures.
<p>Brittany Cartwright</p>
The Valley star revealed she underwent facial liposuction before filming the new Bravo series.
"I had work done on my double chin. We call it the turkey gobbler, runs in my family," she said on the March 14 episode of her When Reality Hits podcast. "No matter what I was going through, no matter how much weight I lost, I still felt I had something there."
<p>Martha Stewart</p>
After years of denying cosmetic procedures, the lifestyle expert recently confessed in the Feb. 8 episode of her eponymous podcast that she gets Botox, fillers and lasers to tighten her skin. "I don't think a lot about age," she explained, "but I don't want to look my age."
<p>Tori Spelling</p>
The Beverly Hills, 90210 star has spoken publicly about her nose job and her breast implants.
<p>Sharon Osbourne</p>
In addition to getting candid on using Ozempic for weight loss, the talk show host admitted that her 2021 facelift was "the worst thing that I ever did," explaining in December 2023, "I looked like Cyclops."
<p>Lady Gaga</p>
"I've never had any work-work done, but I went through a phase when I was smoking pot when I was really obsessed with getting facial injections," the "Born This Way" singer told radio host Howard Stern in 2013. "I was going to this strip mall in Chicago in the back…Everybody was like, 'You are a nut job.'...I'm telling you, I wasn't exactly in the best frame of mind, and I would smoke a bunch of joints and have some drinks and I would be like, 'Oh, let's go see my girl' and we would drive to this strip mall and I would get shot up with a bunch of whatever, Juvéderm, and then leave."
She continued, "Now all the stuff is gone. Before I shot the 'Applause' video, [a photographer friend] was like, 'Gaga, I love you but if you don't stop injecting s--t in your face I'm going to just kill you.'"
<p>Bethenny Frankel</p>
The Real Housewives of New York star got breast implants in 2005, but removed them in 2008.
"Now I feel comfortable," she told Life & Style. "If there's something you're not comfortable with and you can correct it, great."
<p>Olivia Colman</p>
The Crown star revealed that she's a fan of Botox. "I've had loads," the 50-year-old told BBC Radio 2.
<p>Julie Chen</p>
In 2013, The Talk co-host revealed on the show that she got plastic surgery at the beginning of her career in order to make her eyes look bigger.
"And after I had it done, the ball did roll for me," she said. "And I wondered, did I give in to the man?"
She added, "I have to live with every decision that I've made. And it got me to where we are today. And I'm not going to look back."
<p>Jamie Lee Curtis</p>
"I've done it all," the actress told The Telegraph in 2002. "I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it."
<p>Jennifer Aniston</p>
"I had [a deviated septum] fixed–best thing I ever did," the actress told People in 2007. "I slept like a baby for the first time in years. As far as all the other [rumors], as boring as it sounds, it's still mine. All of it. Still mine."
<p>NeNe Leakes</p>
In 2010, the Real Housewives of Atlanta star revealed that she had had a nose job, a breast lift and liposuction.
"I'm very comfortable and confident in myself," she told People. "I just wanted a tune up."
<p>Kim Zolciak</p>
In 2015, the reality star called Dr. Lenny Hochstein her "boob God" doctor for giving her perky breasts. Of course, the reality TV personality has been an open book about her other procedures, including a tummy tuck and lip injections.
<p>Lisa Rinna</p>
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star had her lips injected with silicone at age 24. In 2010, she had some of the filler removed.
"I find it so interesting that it's become such a big thing because I can't tell you how many girls have done their lips. I feel like I'm a pioneer," she said on Today in 2013. "I was one of the first ones to ever do it and be honest about it."She also said, "I would do it again. I never had a career before I had the lips so my lips have had their own career!"
<p>Heidi Montag</p>
In 2009, at just 23 years old, the Hills star underwent a head-to-toe transformation, having 10 cosmetic procedures done in one day. In addition to Botox, chin reductions and a nose job, the reality star also got fat injections in her lips.
<p>Iggy Azalea</p>
The Aussie rapper said in the April 2015 issue of Vogue magazine that she got breast implants. "I did change something: Four months ago, I got bigger boobs! I'd thought about it my entire life," she revealed.
<p>Tyra Banks</p>
In her memoir, Perfect Is Boring, the supermodel revealed that she went under the knife early in her career. "I had bones in my nose that were growing and itching," she wrote in her book. "I could breathe fine, but I added cosmetic surgery. I admit it! Fake hair, and I did my nose."
<p>Kim Kardashian</p>
"I really, genuinely care about looking good," the SKKN founder told Allure for its August 2022 issue. "I probably care more than 90 percent of the people on this planet. It's not easy when you're a mom and you're exhausted at the end of the day or you're in school, and I'm all of the above. I do my beauty treatments usually late at night. After everyone's in bed, I'm doing laser treatments."
Kim revealed she's also gotten "a little bit of Botox," but hasn't dabbled with filler on her lips or cheeks, revealing, "No filler. Never filled either one, ever."
<p>Kristin Cavallari</p>
During an Instagram Stories Q&A on Aug. 23, the reality TV star didn't shy away from answering a fan's question about her boobs. "Gonna keep it real with y'all," Kristin began her response. "Got a lift after breast feeding all 3 kids."
While The Hills alum isn't opposed to cosmetic procedures, she admitted she's "never done" Botox.
"It's not for me. But I've seen it look amazing on some people," she wrote. "My concern is that we don't know the long term effects of it (and I don't mean 5-10 years, I mean like 20 years) and I think your face is muscle, so we need to work it out the same way we would any other muscle."
<p>John Stamos</p>
In his new memoir, If You Would Have Told Me, John opened up about feeling insecure with his appearance, which led him to get two nose jobs. "That nose," he wrote. "It bothers me."
"My nose looks kind of pushed up like Peter Pan or something," he shared of the initial procedure. "So on my next hiatus, I have it redone by Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon."
<p>Sia</p>
The singer recently revealed she got a facelift.
"I'm a pop star that normally hides my face and doesn't lie about s--t," she said at the 5th annual Daytime Beauty Awards in Los Angeles on Oct. 1.. "I got an amazing face lift from Dr. Ben Talei. He is incredible. And he is doing so much good work—and not just for the pop stars of the world."
<p>Nicki Minaj</p>
The rapper revealed she recent went under the knife. "I had to get a breast reduction," she told Vogue in a cover story published Nov. 9, "and actually I love it. I used to want a bigger butt, and now I look back and realize how silly that was."
Vanessa Williams
Vanessa recently shared the cosmetic treatments she gets, telling Page Six, "I'm due for Botox. I don't do filler and I have so much full movement that there is no Botox at all."
When asked if she's thought about going under the knife, she replied, "That would be the one thing that I would probably put off for the very last thing. The technology now for lifting, sculpting, tightening, is incredible. And there's a machine for anything. I just got a microcurrent thing for your neck, it was called Forma and it's like a total package facial."
Kim Cattrall
The Sex and the City alum opened up about why she receives cosmetic injectables.
"I'm in my 60s now and I'm all about battling aging in every way I can," Kim told The Sunday Times in an interview published June 4. "There are fillers, Botox, there's so many different things that you can investigate and try and see if it's for you. It's not just a vanity thing."
Blac Chyna
The reality star underwent several cosmetic procedures over the years. In March 2023, she underwent breast and butt reduction surgery and got her facial fillers dissolved. The following May, as she celebrated her 35th birthday, she reflected on her previous look on Instagram, saying in a video, "I was looking at old pictures, you guys. That face was looking crazy."
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