Rosie O’Donnell, 64, Reveals She Got a Secret Facelift That Cost More ‘Than I Have Ever Paid for a Car’💔

Rosie O’Donnell paid a pretty penny for a facelift earlier this year after previously promising herself she would not alter her features.

The 64-year-old former talk show host revealed in a Monday, May 25, Substack post that she got a lower deep plane facelift in January that “cost more money than I have ever paid for a car.”

“My privileged place in this world,” she continued. “And that feels almost shameful to me. The things I have – earned some say, but [it’s] the gross excess that wounds me.”

O’Donnell prefaced her post by explaining that she’d always felt “very strongly about facelifts” and prided herself on being someone “who would never – ever” have one done.

“I thought it was a betrayal. Of feminism. Of aging. Of our team of women worldwide. And then I lost 50 pounds…,” she wrote.

While she usually accepts herself as she is, the former View co-host said that it sometimes felt inauthentic to be completely against cosmetic procedures.

“There’s a point where acceptance starts to feel like lying,” O’Donnell wrote.

She started doing the required research, but her feelings shifted again when her daughter Clay, 13, found out and advised against it.

“Young women look up to you,” Clay told her, O’Donnell wrote. Clay also told O’Donnell she “wouldn’t be able to respect you if you did it,” a line that “landed” with O’Donnell.

O’Donnell is a mom to five. She shares Parker Jaren O’Donnell, 31, Chelsea Belle O’Donnell, 28, Blake Christopher O’Donnell, 26, and Vivienne Rose O’Donnell, 23, with her ex-wife, Kelli Carpenter. The comedian adopted Clay with her late ex-wife Michelle Rounds.

Clay “sounded exactly like me. Like my younger, more certain, more morally rigid self had somehow moved into my house,” O’Donnell wrote.

The comedian saw the exchange as a learning opportunity for her children.

“I want them to grow up in a world where they don’t feel like they have to change but also knows they can, if  they want to, without losing moral standing in their own life,” O’Donnell wrote.

O’Donnell went ahead with her plans, selecting a doctor whose work she’d seen thanks to friends who had also had work done. However, she made it clear that she didn’t want to develop a fixation where she was constantly trying to make more and more tweaks.

“I didn’t want to become that voice—the one that keeps moving the goalpost, never satisfied, the one that turns their own face into a problem. One can never quite solve. I wanted a limit,” she wrote.

Surprisingly, O’Donnell claimed no one realized she’d undergone a facelift.

“Not one person. Not a friend, not a stranger, not even people who owe me compliments. My teen daughter,  has not said a word. Nothing. I went through a full existential feminist crisis, had my face and neck surgically altered, and the result is… zippo,” she said.

Although O’Donnell was pleased with her subtle enhancements, she admitted there’s a “sense of deceit I’m struggling with.”

“As I get ready for the last day of school with my youngest – the caboose, here at 64 years old with a new lower face and neck, just happy to be alive. Able to feel and choose and use my voice whenever I feel called to,” she wrote. “For the girl I was. The woman I am. And all those joining my ranks as we carry on in act 3. This is me.”