Rinna got permanent silicone lip injections when she was only 23, and 10 years later, she noticed scar tissue in her lips that was "hard and bumpy, like peas." She tried to relieve the swelling with cortisone shots, but they made her lips look worse.

The Real Housewife feels like her lips made her a laughing stock, and she was wary of being photographed because “my lips would look a certain way and then people would start to talk.” That simply wouldn’t do for a celebrity, so she decided to correct the issue.

Rinna got a lip reduction surgery that removed damaged tissue in her upper lip, and she remarked on the “huge difference”: “You can see my teeth when I smile now […] I've been smiling these big smiles!” She’s more confident now, and her husband Harry Hamlin is also happy with his wife’s results.