Celebs Who Went Into Hiding After Plastic Surgeries Gone Wrong

Tara Reid's botched boob job was so notorious that the Sharknado (2013) actress found herself better known for her surgical flub than her memorable performances in films such as American Pie (1999) and The Big Lebowski (1998). As she told Access Hollywood in 2006, she "became known as having the ugliest breast in the world. It was all over those websites. Millions of them." Reid admitted that the reason she first decided to have an enhancement done in the first place was that her breasts weren't equally sized, and she'd undergone some body changes that made them less perky than the movie-going world might have been used to seeing on-screen.

"I originally did it because I had one breast bigger than the other. But I also gained and lost weight, so they were getting saggy, and in Hollywood, you have to look great," she said. Reid blames the practitioner who performed the procedure for giving her an "irregular like a goose-shape egg" breast, but she also blamed herself for not doing more research on the doctor's surgical skills. "I had heard this person was good," she said. "It's Hollywood. It's Beverly Hills. You think everyone is pretty good here, and obviously I didn't do the research."

In addition to breast implants, she also had liposuction done to her abdominal region and described the results as "look[ing] almost like a cobblestone road. It was very irregular and bumpy with dents and high points." Reid subsequently disappeared from movies for several years and had corrective surgeries done to fix the problems. "I was embarrassed," she explained of her decision to hide. "I didn't want people to see what I really looked like. I had to keep it covered." Now that she's nipped the problem in the bud, she's happy with what she sees in the mirror again.

In the '80s, Mickey Rourke was a highly in-demand and respected actor who'd starred in hits such as Diner (1982), Barfly (1987), Year of the Dragon (1985), and Angel Heart (1987). But he fell out of the limelight after he took on a second career as an amateur boxer and suffered some catastrophic injuries to his face, which were only worsened by surgical intervention. He told the Daily Mail in 2009 that his nose had been broken twice in the course of his pugilistic career, and that his cheekbone were shattered. He underwent five surgeries to "rebuild his nose" and one on his cheekbone and said he attributes the visible alterations of his famous face to those operations.

"Most of it was to mend the mess of my face because of the boxing, but I went to the wrong guy to put my face back together," he explained. He told CNN he lived in "a state of shame" as the roles stopped rolling in due to his facial disfigurement. Once Darren Aronofsky decided to buck all expectations and cast Rourke in his Oscar-nominated title role in The Wrestler, though, Rourke re-emerged to grand critical favor and reclaimed his place as a top-billed star in films like Iron Man 2, The Expendables, and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Even with his career's second wind in motion, though, Rourke is reportedly still putting his mug on the chopping block. A source told Page Six in 2015, "he's hooked on surgery" and "wakes up in the morning and looks in the mirror and doesn't like what he sees."

Meg Ryan's appearance has long been the subject of scrutiny over which procedures she's had done to her once-iconic face. Experts believe she's had everything from laser resurfacings to filler injections to her cheeks and lips to eye lifts to a nose job, based on how drastically different she looks in up-close shots when she does make a rare public appearance.

While Ryan didn't outright deny the allegations, she did tell Porter magazine (via ET Online), "I love my age. I love my life right now. I love what I know about. I love the person I've become, the one I've evolved into. In my life, I've been scrappy as hell, but I feel easy with things now. I think that comes with age." She also said she rejects "these conversations about looks and hair color and our roots" because "it's interesting and funny for five minutes, but it's not that interesting." Even so, the former A-lister has kept a curiously quiet career and a very private personal life since her face started to show signs of change.

Melanie Griffith was an icon of the late '80s film scene, but her career took a major pause for several years in the mid-2000s after she began to receive some serious backlash over her dramatically altered appearance. She told US Weekly in 2012, "Most people are telling me I look horrible. The tweets I get are really nasty...I don't know if I look that great [but] I work out a lot. I have a trainer that I [work with] four times a week, and I do hot yoga." Indeed, she's widely been criticized for having a so-called "trout pout" with the appearance of her lips.

Griffith's first encounter with reconstructive surgery came from an on-set animal attack she endured at just 14 years old, while filming with a real lion for 1981's Roar. But the procedures reportedly didn't stop there, as experts believe she's had a facelift and eye area lifts as well as fillers, and she herself has played into rumors that she had breast augmentation done in the early '90s.

Wayne Newton spent a lot of his life in the literal spotlight as a Las Vegas performance icon, but he curiously withdrew from the stage until 2012, when had to make a courtroom appearance in Sin City, which all-but confirmed in the court of public opinion that he'd been under the knife with unsuccessful results. Outsiders speculated that his appearance indicated he'd had a botched face lift and brow lift, but the "Danke Shoen" crooner has kept his lips sealed on whether he went under the knife or not and blames his retreat from Hollywood on the types of roles he was being offered.