The Most Stunning Plastic Surgery Transformations

Plastic surgery often gets a bad rap for making people look... well, plastic. But as much as we love to ogle plastic surgeries gone wrong (hello, Botched), we'd be wrong to assume that there aren't any good examples of cosmetic procedures in Hollywood. In fact, plenty of celebs have gotten minimal work done and look absolutely amazing. Not only that, but a lot of them are willing to talk about it. Gone are the days when stars had to explain away a newly refreshed look by saying they've been drinking more water! Many Hollywood A-listers (and let's face it, many B- and C-listers) are more than willing to give blow-by-blow details of what they're doing to stay forever "young."

From pinned-back ears to tucked eyelids and lipo'd necks, the entertainment industry at all levels is filled with plastic surgery triumphs — and we've found the best of the best. Take a look below at some of the most stunning plastic surgery transformations ever. (By the way, yes, that's Ashlee Simpson up there!) 

While we've seen many a celebrity nose job go wrong, singer Ashlee Simpson's rhinoplasty seemed to have completely transformed her look for the better. The singer and cute younger sister of Jessica Simpson turned heads when she debuted a slightly altered face back in 2006. When asked about it back then, she played coy. "Everybody's already saying it, so I just don't talk about it. I'm like, OK, whatever. It doesn't bother me," Simpson told the Associated Press (via CBS News).

Even though she refused to acknowledge it directly at the time, Marie Claire editor Joanna Coles wasn't shy about expressing their opinion. According to The New York Times, Simpson appeared on the mag's July 2006 cover with her old nose, saying it was best to appreciate one's body as it is. Later, after her nose job, the mag received 1,000 letters from readers accusing the magazine and Simpson of hypocrisy. In their August 2006 issue, they printed some of the protest letters with a note from Coles that read, in part: "We're dazed and confused — and disappointed — by her choice, too!" Ouch.

So... did she really have surgery, or not? Simpson still isn't answering the question. But after years of being asked, she also seemed to get tired of the whole cat-and-mouse game. "As long as people have two eyes, you probably know the answer," she told Us Weekly.

Heidi Montag's before-and-after pics still have us in shock. At the peak of her career on MTV's The Hills, Montag admitted to having over 10 different surgeries, which, let's be honest, made her look like a different person.

At the time, Montag was open and enthusiastic about her surgeries. After getting multiple procedures at age 23 (which included a mini brow lift, nose job, chin reduction, and neck liposuction) she told People: "It was so worth it! I see an upgraded version of me ... I feel like almost all of the things I didn't want to be and who I turned into kind of got chiseled away."

Still, the journey wasn't easy. When she was 32, Montag said she wouldn't recommend it. "I wish I had waited and not made a decision so young because I have long-term health complications," Montag admitted to Cosmopolitan. Her husband Spencer Pratt also said the pressures of Hollywood coupled with the business of plastic surgery was devastating. "Everything [Montag] did came from people criticizing her in the comments on Us Weekly and People magazine," he told the mag, adding "She brought printouts of what the trolls and haters said to the doctor and said, 'Can we do something about this?' ... And it's upsetting that you can go to a doctor and say, 'Here's what I hate about myself,' and he'll say, "I can fix that. For free."

Dudes, take note: Just because you're about to have a kid doesn't mean you have to give up on your looks. Jersey Shore's Ronnie Ortiz-Magro had no problem admitting that he got lipo on his midsection, and let's just say we ain't complaining. After all, who are we to judge? The road to shredded abs is always paved with good intentions.

While Ortiz-Magro said on an episode of The Doctors that he's always been a "workout fanatic," he explained that staying in shape got way harder after his daughter was born. "One year ago today my life completely changed. I had a little baby girl. She's like my guardian angel, and now I can't spend two to three hours every day in the gym like I used to," he said (via People).

So, like anyone with a reality show under their belt might do, Ortiz-Magro hit up his plastic surgeon, who offered him a new kind of liposuction that would create lnstagram-worthy abs. "We're going to be able to get that area in between each of his abs completely defined, so that he actually has a six-pack for many, many years to come," his doctor Christopher Khorsandi said on the show (via People). Wow, where do we sign up?

Jane Fonda was cute back in the day, but she's 82 as of this writing, and you'd think you'd see a wrinkle here or there. Nope. Instead, she's completely flipped the script on what it looks like to be an octogenarian, admitting to The Guardian that she had a little nip and tuck along the way. "I'm two years older than my dad was when he died. Katharine Hepburn was three years younger than I am now when she made [On Golden Pond]. People looked older back then. I wish I were brave enough to not do plastic surgery but I think I bought myself a decade," she said.

Just don't make the mistake of asking her about it now, though. When Megyn Kelly brought up the subject with her on Today, things got super awkward. Kelly asked, "I read that you said you felt you're not proud to admit that you've had work done. "Why not?" to which Fonda snapped, "We really want to talk about that now?" before changing the subject to talk about her new movie. But it didn't stop there as a full-blown feud later broke out between Kelly and Fonda. 

Fonda later swore off plastic surgery for good, telling Elle in 2020, "I'm not going to cut myself up anymore." As for Kelly? Apparently her pettiness lasts longer than any fillers, as she tweeted in response to Fonda's revelation, "Wait... I thought ... oh never mind." 

Bristol Palin shocked everyone when she got plastic surgery at the tender age of 20. Even though she told Us Weekly it was "corrective jaw surgery" to fix a misalignment, a look at the before-and-after shows a formerly round-faced Palin compared to post surgery, where she has a distinctly sharper jawline and chin.

"Yes, it improved the way I look, but this surgery was necessary for medical reasons," she told the mag. "I don't obsess over my face." Still, some experts said they didn't buy her claim. As one plastic surgeon told ABC News, "You would never get that type of aesthetic improvement by just repositioning the jaw. Her claim that it was just functional sounds like a little bit of a cover up."

Regardless of how she got her new look, we think she looks absolutely gorgeous. And Palin herself seems to agree, telling Us Weekly, "I look older, more mature, and don't have as much of a chubby little baby face!"

Of her breast augmentation, singer Kelly Rowland said: "I wanted to get breast implants when I was 18, but my mom and Beyoncé's mom told me to really think about it first. I took their advice and waited 10 years (via AP). By the time she was 27, however, she was ready.

After getting surgery that took her from an A to a B cup, Rowland seemed pleased. Yet at the same time, she didn't expect everyone to like it. She told People magazine (via Today), "It is a decision I made for myself. I like it, and that's all that counts." She also acknowledged that it was a serious decision that shouldn't be taken lightly. She continued by warning young people: "Think about it before you just jump off and do something [you may regret later]."

However, when her son was born in 2017, her surgeon's handiwork started to lose its aesthetic appeal. "My nipples were HUGE — we are talking the size of Frisbees," she wrote in her parenting guide, Whoa Baby!. "Even with the silicone action, it was like some of the air had been sucked out and they just sort of hung there like flapjacks." The singer vowed to "see someone (wink, wink) after I have my second kid." While she certainly didn't need bigger boobs to look amazing, when you see the photos, it's hard not to be jealous!