Photos: Above, Kenny Rogers in June at age 70. Below, in 1989 at age 51, before plastic surgery.
BAD DECISION GETS BETTER
Country singer Kenny Rogers, 70, has often said he regrets his decision to have plastic surgery after he married a much younger woman in 1997.
But now, a decade later, he thinks the skin around his eyes is slowly loosening, so the surgeon’s work looks less extreme.
On a tour of Australia, he was quoted by the Courier Mail in Brisbane as calling himself “a bionic man with no original working parts.”
“I’m the plastic surgery king. I’m a bionic man! Every part of my body has been scooped or something at one time,” he told the National Enquirer. “I kind of wish I hadn’t done it. Looking back at some pictures of myself, my eyes were a lot warmer than they are now, and I miss that.”
He was embarrassed at first by how his eyes looked after surgery, he said.
“But as that stuff settles in it looks better and better. If I don’t die soon it’ll look great,” he said.
It’s a potential outcome that plastic surgeon / blogger Dr. Tony Youn described two years ago:
His plastic surgeon has apparently taken too much eyelid skin off, making his lids too tight. This is a big problem that is not easily corrected. For some people time will loosen it up a bit. For others, the only way to treat overly tight upper eyelids is to lengthen the eyelids with a skin graft.
It is very important for men to go to plastic surgeons who have a keen eye for not feminizing a man who doesn’t want it. Overly tight eyelids can make men look more effeminate. … Hopefully Kenny’s eyes will loosen up a bit!
Rogers said he had plastic surgery because felt under pressure to maintain a youthful appearance after marrying Wanda Miller, who is 29 years younger than he.
That was a bad decision, he said.
I didn’t want to be an old man with this young girl. I didn’t want to look like an old man. As you go through life, you make choices. Some are good, some are bad.
The Make Me Heal cosmetic-surgery blog estimates that Rogers has had a face lift, eyelid surgery, brow lift and uses Botox.
Related links:
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- Harrison Ford is showing his age, but rejects plastic surgery
- Plastic surgery opponent Cate Blanchett says wrinkles can be sexy
- Reader survey: Can wrinkles be sexy?
- ‘Clooney wrinkles’ slide show
- George Clooney likes his wrinkles, rules out Botox
- Simon Cowell relies on Botox, shuns plastic surgery and hair color
- Surgeon and Corey Feldman tell of his lipo, wife’s implants
- Botox spared Gordon Ramsay’s trademark wrinkles, local doc says
About women –
- Priscilla’s face divides cosmetic docs; what about you?
- Mia Farrow at 63
- Susan Sarandon says women can change their bodies however they want to
- Sally Field is thinking of getting plastic surgery; what’s your advice?
- Cosmetic doctors advise Sally Field how to fix her face
- Anti-Botox star Sarah Jessica Parker rebuffs men’s scorn
- Buddhist sex kitten Mamie Van Doren vs. the signs of aging
- Victoria Principal said she wouldn’t reveal plastic surgery, but those photos …
- The world’s most powerful Botoxed celebrities
For more on celebrities and cosmetic medicine, see links on the right side of this blog.
People are beautiful. You don’t need bigger boobs, less wrinkles, more hair, tighter eyes.
Love yourself. Others already love you, so get used to it.
Let the plastic vanity surgeons find more useful work, like saving lives.
The bastards!!They’ve killed Kenny..ok,maybe it’s not THEIR fault.Maybe this is what happens when you sell your soul for rock ‘n roll to the demon Vegas..alright,that’s a bit extreme too.I haven’t seen a picture of Kenny post-plastic,and when I saw this,I asked myself,”Hey-who’s the homeless guy masquerading as Kenny Rogers?Or is this some variation on “Bumfights”,another reality show where they dare “celebrity look-alike” indigent alcoholics to storm the stages of acts like Lou Reed,The Stones,Rod Stewart,etc. for $50 and a bottle of chivas regal.BTW,that’s a copyrighted concept,so don’t get any ideas!!lol
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Kenny Rogers did not need a face lift. He has always been handsome to me. It doesn’t matter about the outside only what’s within. Kenny’s voice is enough to take care of any age hits…smile.
When we make choices in this life we should be prepared to face and if may be propably live with the consequences.
Kenny’s voice is great if only he realised that he would not have gone for the surgery.
If others already love you why not love and appreciate yourself?