Lindsay Lohan addresses plastic surgery rumors
Lindsay Lohan knows she looks different, but she's had enough of your theories about why.
The child star-turned-teen tabloid sensation-turned-Netflix darling discussed all things "Freakier Friday" and shot down dogged speculation of a facelift in an Elle magazine cover story.
Lohan, who co-stars with Jamie Lee Curtis in a much-anticipated sequel to 2003's "Freaky Friday," told Elle that the secret to supple skin in your thirties is not plastic surgery: It's motherhood.
"My skin changed after having my son. It got really sensitive. That’s what really made me change my whole routine and diet and everything," she said, citing green juice, ice cold water and pickled beets, among other things, as the key to her radiant look.
After Lohan made a grand return to the screen in 2022, rumors instantly swirled of a facelift or other form-altering procedures aimed at preserving youth. No stranger to tabloid press, the "Parent Trap" starlet said she works to turn off the outside noise and make healthy choices for herself.
"You just have to do it and ignore everyone else," Lohan told "Saturday Night Live" star Chloe Fineman, who was conducting the interview.
"You know what the problem is with you being beautiful women – the second she looks any different, they assume she had her face lifted at 37 or 38, that she ripped apart this or that. It's so mean," interjected Lohan's publicist, who sat in on the interview.
"I'm like, when? With what time? Where?" the starlet quipped, alluding to a packed schedule.
"I tried to figure that out, Linds, in the last three years, when you had time to do anything, because I know your schedule," Lohan's publicist said in response. "So the haters can hate and be jealous. It just sucks that that's where they go with women in today's world. Women can't just look good to look good and change their lifestyle to be more healthy."
Some on social media were less than convinced then, continuing the steady drumbeat of claims that her face just looks a little too different.
"Lindsay Lohan says her transformation is from green juice and ice water. If that’s true, great — but facelift surgery at 38 isn't unheard of," one user wrote on Threads, while another took it further, calling her "A FILTHY, STINKING FIBBER" on X.
True or not, plastic surgery may be entering its "undetectable" era, Paste BN previously reported, making it more difficult to know whether someone's claim to natural beauty is fraudulent or faithful.
"It's not just undetectable; it's understated," Dr. Anthony Rossi, a dermatologist and surgeon who hosts the podcast "Give Good Face: Clean Clinical Science," previously told Paste BN. "It's very minimalistic, but with improvements, and so it's not this over-the-top, in-your-face, big cheeks, frozen face. It's really more subtle. It's really nice and refined."
Whether it gives a "refined" sheen to a once somewhat stigmatized practice or now, the "undetectable" era makes it ever more important not to compare yourself to celebrities, mental health experts told Paste BN.
"It may establish an unattainable ideal, and I think that the more we get comfortable with who we are, the less that becomes an issue," psychotherapist Stephanie Sarkis says. "We tend to not compare ourselves with others when we are feeling OK about ourselves."
Contributing: Charles Trepany