Rosie O'Donnell Says Secret Facelift Was Done to Remove 'Extra Skin' After Weight Loss from Ozempic

Michelle LeeTue, June 16, 2026 at 7:12 PM UTC

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(Left) Rosie O'Donnell in October 2025; (Right) Rosie O'Donnell in June 2026Credit: Brendon Thorne/Getty; Kristina Bumphrey/WWD via Getty -

Rosie O'Donnell appeared in a new interview during which she further opened up about her decision to get a lower facelift

TheView alum revealed on Radio Andy how weight loss, due in part to taking Ozempic, changed her appearance and influenced her to undergo the invasive procedure

O'Donnell wrote a Substack post about her cosmetic surgery on May 25 and attended the Tony Awards on June 7

After having doubts about undergoing plastic surgery, Rosie O'Donnell finally let herself surrender to the possibility of making a bigger change in her life.

On May 25, the former talk show host, 64, penned an essay about her decision to undergo a lower deep plane facelift in January, which she revealed "cost more money than I have ever paid for a car." And after revealing before-and-after photos of her results and making her first appearance since announcing the news at the 2026 Tony Awards on June 7, O'Donnell further detailed why she got plastic surgery despite her prior doubts.

Appearing on SiriusXM's Radio Andy, the comedian admitted that her transformation even took her by "surprise."

Rosie O'Donnell before and after her faceliftCredit: Rosie O'Donnell/Instagram (2)

"You don't lead with any sort of vanity and I think that's what people love about you," co-host Andy Cohen said when O'Donnell then explained how weight loss influenced her decision.

O'Donnell has previously stated that she lost 60 lbs. through surgery, lifestyle changes and weight loss drugs, including Ozempic, which she's taken for three and a half years.

"There was a lot of extra skin on my neck. There was skin on my face and I had a lot of friends who did it," she explained, then mentioned Ricki Lake, Kathy Griffin and Jane Fonda as celebrities who've been open about their facelifts.

Rosie O'Donnell attending the 2026 Tony Awards after announcing her faceliftCredit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty

Despite identifying as "anti-facelift" previously, O'Donnell said, "I was sick of people in Ireland [where she moved in 2025] going, 'Oh, darling, are you sad?' I'm like, 'No, I'm not sad. That's my face.'"

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Eventually, she warmed up to the idea of looking 15 years younger, calling it "not such a bad thing."

The conversation then turned to another one of O'Donnell's features when Cohen remarked, "Now I'm assuming that those are your own teeth."

"No. The first thing I did when I won money on Star Search [the talent show in which she competed in 1984] was get crowns," she explained. Then, about her natural teeth, "They look like pointy scary devil teeth, and when I was getting them done, I wasn't aware. They don't say, by the way, you're going to have fang mouth for now. When I saw in the mirror before you put them in, I was terrified."

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She continued: "I got them because, you know, I had very bad Irish teeth and one was dead next to the front tooth. It was yellow on TV. It looked like I was missing a tooth, and so that was the first thing I did was get crowns when I was young."

Whether or not O'Donnell plans on undergoing more surgery was revealed at the Tonys earlier this month, in addition to why she's shared her journey so truthfully.

"No, I don't think so," she told E! News about going further than a facelift. "All that matters is truth and love," she added. "And so I wanted to be truthful and say all the complicated emotions I had about it. I just felt it was better to be truthful than not and I didn't want some tabloid to go, 'Gotcha!'"

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