Rosie O'Donnell has told how her Irish neighbours became concerned for her after she shed over four stone in weight.
The comedian - who moved to Ireland in January 2025 - began using Mounjaro to help kickstart her weight loss journey. But the star said she was left with lots of excess skin after losing over four stone and her neighbours became concerned.
She opted for a deep plane facelift, which targets the ligaments in the connective tissue and muscle in the face using smaller incisions. It is considered safer since it has less impact on the facial skin itself.
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She said: "I lost so much weight that I had a lot of excess skin here [pointing to her chin], and it made me look sad. People in Ireland said, 'Rosie, are you all right, love?' I’m like, 'It’s my face. I actually feel happy here.'
"I didn’t want my face to be frozen. I had to wrestle with myself because as a feminist I always felt this is the male gaze and not anything I believe in.
"Clay said, 'Mommy, girls look up to you. What does your legacy stand for if you do this?' I changed my mind for six months and then decided the real power of feminism [is] to decide what we want to do with our bodies and when."
Rosie didn't tell people at first about her facelift until people started asking what she was doing to make herself look better. She also revealed she forked out $90,000.
She said: "I didn’t make it public until everyone started saying, 'You look so much better. What are you doing?' I didn’t want to be one of those people who says, 'Oh, nothing.' So why do I look like this? $90,000.
"I was worried about the cost. I don’t like to waste money. I would never spend that on a car," she told People magazine.
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Rosie also opened up about how surprised she was when she found "peace" living in Ireland.
"The peace that I feel there. It is not a celebrity-obsessed culture. When people see me, they don’t say, 'Could I have your picture?" They say, 'Welcome, Rosie.' Everywhere I looked, I saw people who looked like my family—90-year-old women in the supermarket.
"If my mom lived, that would’ve been her, and I started writing about her and being a mother while being motherless."
And she said Clay feels like living in Ireland has made her "softer."
"We were out, and there was a child crying and a mother comforting him. I don’t know if the child had autism, but I thought it was a possibility. I started to cry, and Clay grabbed my hand.
"When we got home, Clay said, “'ou know what I noticed since we got to Ireland? You’re softer now.' I said, 'Thank you for noticing. I love you very much' — and then Clay rolls their eyes like all my kids do. 'Yeah, I know, Mom.'"
"My show is a love letter to Clay as well, even though when I’m rehearsing, they will say, 'I never said that. That is an exaggeration.' I always say, ;Do you want to come see it?' and Clay responds, 'It is one-sided, and not only your opinion matters, Mommy.' I’m like, 'You’re damn right. I can’t wait till you write your own show.'"
*This article was originally published on Evoke.ie.
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