Real Housewives Who Look Nothing Like They Used To

Kyle Richards is an actress with a surprisingly decent IMDb page that includes recurring roles in Little House on the Prairie and ER. She's also Paris Hilton's aunt, although, unfortunately, not on the side of the family that owns one of the biggest hotel chains in the world. Richards is best known for being one of the long-time cast members of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which means getting plastic surgery is probably written into her contract.

During an interview with SiriusXM Stars (via the Daily Mail), Richards admitted she had her nose done. She also told People she's had "minimal Botox" and is "one of those people who thinks less is better. "There are so many people who have so much done to their face," she said. "They never look better!" 

Just so we're all on the same page here: getting a nose job and injecting chemicals into your face to smooth out wrinkles is apparently cool, but everything else is overkill? Got it.

When you have nicknames for your boobs—Porsha Williams calls hers "Coco" and "Chanel"—you may be a tad too focused on your physical appearance. While she admitted to talk show host Steve Harvey that "the girls are new," and shared a stomach-churning video on Instagram of her nose being artificially inflated with some kind of mystery goo, she claims that's all the work she's had done.

No, she doesn't have new teeth, and no, she did not "have her ribs crushed" as one social media follower speculated. Still, it's undeniable that Williams has a new look. When The Real Housewives of Atlanta castmate Kandi Burruss suspected Williams' butt may not be factory installed, she refuted the claim by jiggling her backside in Andy Cohen's face and calling it "cornbred fed" during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live. In reality, we may never know the whole truth about what Williams has or hasn't done, but we can all agree that she's definitely found the most creative ways to describe her new body, however it got that way.

Over the years, studying Lisa Rinna's lips became something of a red carpet pastime. Even though the former soap star was keenly aware that this was going on, she kept her kisser sealed for two decades before coming clean on Today (via People). "I had silicone put in my top lip, not the bottom lip," she said. After the silicone hardened, she had cortisone injected, but that made things worse. She dealt with her lips getting "hard and bumpy, like peas" until finally going for lip reduction surgery in 2010. And if that description of her lip evolution grossed you out, brace yourself, because Harry Hamlin, Lisa's husband, can top that.

Hamlin told People, "Whatever change took place was so gradual, it never registered for me." He said, "her lips were always soft and supple," which is a detail so uncomfortably intimate that hearing it is like watching your parents make out. While The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star's pout is now much less pronounced, her professed love of Botox and fillers seems to be keeping her face wrinkle-free, like a real-life Photoshopped version of herself.

Lisa Vanderpump, the British restaurateur and dog-mom to the most famous Pomeranian on the planet, is probably the least drastic of all of her nip-and-tucking co-stars on this list. Though not visible from the above photos, her butt is the biggest source of controversy. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star told Yahoo Style that talk show host Wendy Williams accused her of having butt implants, which Vanderpump denied. She said the nose job rumors are false too, despite the fact that she lives in Beverly Hills and they probably hand those out free with a tank of gas in that town. 

Vanderpump hasn't steered entirely clear of the cosmetic surgeon's office. "The only thing I've done to my face is put a little bit of filler," she said, which seems like it's always the first and most downplayed cosmetic enhancement these ladies are willing to discuss.

Bethenny Frankel is one of the more outspoken members of all of the ladies, yet The Real Housewives of New York firecracker has long denied rumors about having plastic surgery on her face — she's admitted to breast implants and augmentation — attributing noticeable differences in her mug to a makeup trick where she turns the ends of her fake eyelashes "up a little bit."

When asked about the drastic change in her jawline over the years, Frankel explained it by saying she got Botox injections to treat her temporomandibular joint syndrome, although she also fessed up to using it on other parts of her face. She told the Daily Mail (via Bravo), "Maybe once a year when I think of it, l'll be like, oh I look like a Shar Pei, let me do that." We'd like to just go on the record here and clarify: that was an actual quote from Frankel in which she compared herself to a droopy-faced dog. We had nothing to do with that except for copying it here. Moving on.

At the time of this writing, Kelly Dodd is a relative newcomer to The Real Housewives of Orange County, so when it comes to a significant change in appearance, hers might not be so evident to viewers. However, when compared to a TBT pic she posted to her Instagram from ten years ago, there is a definite difference.

This is interesting for two reasons: 1. With only one season under her belt, Dodd has already made a name for herself as a drama factory, having had confrontations with much of the existing cast, including Heather Dubrow, who Dodd accused of having a nose job. 2. Dodd looks like she may have had some work done herself. Not to mention, she's sporting a set of chompers so perfect they look like they're still in the mold. She's denied cosmetic enhancements, so either she'll follow the RHOC playbook and spill the beans later, or this topic has been much ado about nothing.

After having her spot blown up on The Real Housewives of New Jersey when former friend Laurita accused her of having "four nose jobs and everything else that you won't even admit to," Melissa Gorga was forced to reveal that she did, in fact, have her nose done. She referred to it as "the worst kept secret," despite the fact that in the past she repeatedly attributed her nose's shapely new look to "contouring." In an interview with The Daily Dish (via Bravo), Melissa explained, somewhat melodramatically, that she didn't want to reveal the nose job because, "It's something that's personal to me. It's one of the very few things that is personal in my life at this point."

Gorga also played the kid card, saying, "I have children, and there are certain things I don't feel like I need to blurt all over the world." Call us crazy, but we're pretty sure the kids would notice mommy walking around with black eyes and a giant bandage wrapped around her head. While it's true that it was crappy for Laurita to spout off like that, Gorga needs to realize that when you substantially change a feature on your face while starring on one of the most popular reality shows of all time, you don't necessarily get to play the victim when people are curious about it.

You don't have to go back that far in time to see the drastic changes Adrienne Maloof has made to her appearance. The above photos are only seven years apart: the left is from 2010, and the right is from 2017. There is a lot going on there: eyes, cheeks, nose, brows, and just a general facial tightness usually only seen on bank robbers sporting a pantyhose disguise.

None of this should be shocking, considering not only was Maloof married to renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Paul Nassif, but she's also been unabashed about what she's had done over the years. "Botox, fillers, boobs, nose," she told Sirius XM host Judith Reagan (via Us Weekly) in 2010. "When you live in Beverly Hills you expect it. When you married the plastic surgeon, you expect it. So, no big deal," she told WetPaint. 

When E! News caught up with The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star in 2011, she espoused her love of the knife yet again. "If you need fillers, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, I'm all for it. Because Mother Nature at some point will not be too kind to you. In Beverly Hills, it's not 'have you had anything?' — it's 'what have you had done?' It's very true." Alright! We get it. You're totally cool with being a human Mrs. Potato Head.

Ever since Lisa Hochstein said, "I'm my husband's best creation" in her intro line for the show, viewers have regarded every perceivable change to her face and body with a healthy dose of side eye. But Hochstein, speaking with TooFab in 2012, said that the whole thing was supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek reference to the bad boob job that her husband, Miami plastic surgery legend Dr. Leonard "The Boob God" Hochstein, corrected for her.

Asked whether she had any other work done in addition to the reversal of her "uniboob," Hochstein confessed to "a rhinoplasty a long time ago" that she claims "didn't change my face that much." She also offered, "I haven't had that much plastic surgery; I've probably had less than most. I'm not naming names, but I bet you that half of the women on all these shows have had at least two things done. They just don't admit it and I'm being honest and upfront talking about it." 

Of course, that interview was more than five years ago, so there's no telling what she's done to arrive at the above, right photo.

For as open about plastic surgery as Gunvalson is, Gretchen Rossi is just as cagey. Though she admittedly looks closer to her younger self than everyone else listed here, there definitely seem to be some changes over the years. It's been notoriously hard to get Rossi to cop to any of it.

In 2011, she penned a lengthy blog post partially addressing the topic, going out of her way to point out that her Botox injections are not considered plastic surgery because they don't involve "cutting of the skin." She also left the door open for future speculation, writing, "Let me be clear that I am not against plastic surgery at all, and I am sure one day I will probably have something nipped, tucked, or worked on as my body and face starts to droop!"

Two years later, she admitted to "having her lips done," but still denied a nose job, chalking up the thinner appearance of the bridge to makeup contouring. This is all pretty par for the course, especially in this world of the so-called "real" housewives, but Rossi has always had another dog in the fight: The Gretchen Project, her now-defunct initiative that she founded in 2009, which was dedicated to "finding alternative ways to maintain everlasting beauty without having to go under the knife." So yeah, don't expect any Earth-shattering plastic surgery revelations from this Orange County housewife anytime soon.