Gone are the days when facelifts were for the ageing wealthy – now an increasing number of younger celebrities are opting to go under the knife.
A facelift, medically known as a rhytidectomy, is cosmetic surgery that lifts up and pulls back the face tissue to make it look tighter and smoother.
In the UK, costs vary from clinic to clinic from a few thousand pounds for a mini facelift to £45,000 for a face and neck operation.
The once ‘hush hush’ treatment has been given a fresh perspective, with increasing numbers of stars being transparent about getting it done.
Earlier this month, TOWIE star Yazmin Oukhellou admitted to going under the knife – despite being just 31 years old.
But she is not the only young star to have had the procedure. Here, the Daily Mail takes a look at the celebs who are signing up for a facelift.
Earlier this month, TOWIE star Yaz Oukhellou admitted to going under the knife for a facelift – despite being just 31 years old
Yazmin Oukhellou
Earlier this month, Yazmin admitted going under the knife for the last eight years as she shared a painful looking recovery snap following her latest surgery in Turkey.
The TOWIE star took to Instagram with a selfie of her bruised and bandaged face and her body squeezed into a compression vest.
Yazmin told followers that her latest operation had seen her undergo facial lifts and liposuction, but insisted she was not ‘pushing surgery on anyone’ but was instead simply trying to be honest with her fans.
The TV personality went on to say that while she was ‘swollen, bruised and sore’ she knew that while healing ‘wasn’t instant’, she was sure she’d be glad of the results.
Yazmin penned: ‘3 days post-op… swollen, bruised and sore, but trusting the process.
‘I’ve had a temporal lift, neck & jaw lift & 360 lipo — and this is me right in the middle of healing. Taking it day by day and giving my body the time it needs’.
She went on: ‘I’ve been going to @serenecosmetic_ in Istanbul for the past 8 years — the only place I trust with my surgeries. The care is always next level, and my surgeon has been amazing, checking in with me daily to make sure everything is on track for the best results.
‘I’m not sharing this to push surgery on anyone — I’m sharing because I’d rather be honest than pretend I just woke up like this. I also think it’s really important that anyone considering something like this does their own research. It’s not something to take lightly, and it’s definitely not a decision to rush.’
Before adding: ‘For me, this has been something I’ve thought about for a long time before choosing to go ahead. Healing isn’t instant, but I know it will be worth it… I’ll keep you updated.’
Before her latest surgery she admitted she was feeling ‘nervous’ but insisted that she was doing it purely for herself to ‘feel better’ while saying she will inevitably get trolled for sharing the details on social media.
She documented getting ready at her hotel in the morning and being marked up in the preparation ward.
Her next Instagram Story slide showed her recovering as her face was taped up at the sides.
Speaking about her decision to go under the knife at such a young age, she told The Sun: ‘I don’t care what anyone thinks or says, I just do it.
‘I get so many DMs saying ‘you’re gorgeous, stop having surgery’, but most people must look at themselves and see things that bother them that other people can’t see.
‘I only get one life on this earth, so if I can get something done to make myself feel a bit better, then why not make myself happy?’
Hannah Elizabeth
Earlier this year, Hannah Elizabeth showed off the results of her recent facelift and neck liposuction on her Instagram Story
Earlier this year, Hannah Elizabeth showed off the results of her recent facelift and neck liposuction on her Instagram Story.
The former Love Island star, 35, who jetted off to Istanbul for the surgery, shared with her followers her results two days post-operation as she had a routine check-in with her surgeon.
Sharing a photo of the left side of her face, Hannah told her followers: ‘I’m still really swollen but I lit feel like a doll. How is this 2 days post?!!!!! My surgeon is magic.’
Meanwhile, in another shot, Hannah gushed over her new side profile, writing: ‘2 days post op!!! Lower facelift and neck lipo. Just been to see my amazing surgeon wowwww my side profile.’
The star had tape on either side of her face, and her neck appeared bruised as she continued to recover from the surgery.
After she visited the clinic, Hannah showed that she is recovering from the surgery well, as she made a quick pit stop at a local hair salon to get a bouncy blow-dry.
Sharing a video clip of two men styling her blonde locks, she wrote: ‘2 days after facelift who gets a blowy? surgeon said its all good.’
It comes after Hannah revealed she has spent a whopping £100,000 on cosmetic procedures after raking in £10,000 a month on OnlyFans .
The former Love Island star, 35, who first appeared on the show in 2015 and got engaged to ex-fiancé Jon Clark , returned to the All Stars spin-off in 2024.
While Hannah said she is still keen to find the ‘one’, the reality star said at the time that she felt more content than ever with her appearance and OnlyFans career.
She told The Sun : ‘I couldn’t tell you how much I’ve spent, but it’s probably over £100k. I’m not shy about it, I’ve had everything done.’
Hannah, who revealed she recently had her breasts reduced from a G cup to a D cup, had a Bratz Doll facial surgery in 2022, which included a fox eye lift, a lateral blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery) and lip fillers .
The package, to make her look like a real-life Bratz Doll, cost her a jaw-dropping £20,000.
Over the years, she’s also had a nose job, a boob job and a BBL.
Katherine Ryan
Katherine Ryan revealed she went under the knife for a full facelift to ‘reclaim her identity’ after being pregnant six times in the last five years (pictured in February 2026)
Katherine Ryan revealed she went under the knife for a full facelift to ‘reclaim her identity’ after being pregnant six times in the last five years.
The comedian, 42, said the £16,000 invasive procedure took place just eight weeks after she gave birth to her fourth child, Holland, last October.
While she had hinted about having cosmetic work done at the time, she has not disclosed any details until now.
‘The surgery was a facelift. Yes, a full facelift – a little bit of fat transfer to my cheekbone area, and a small bleph[aroplasty],’ she said on her podcast, Telling Everybody Everything, on Tuesday.
‘A bleph is when they take a tiny bit of your eyelid skin, though not too much, and then they’ll usually – to avoid hollowness, put a little bit of fat back in there too. So I had some fat put in like my upper face, my eyelids, and then I had a facelift.’
Katherine added that the surgery was as much an emotional milestone as a physical one after being pregnant six times in five years, having suffered three miscarriages alongside the births of her three children with husband Bobby Koostra.
‘Almost metaphorically I needed to do something, to reclaim my identity, to reclaim my autonomy, to claw back the face that I had in, like, 2019,’ she said.
‘I am not crazy. I’m not trying to wind it back to 2006. I’m just trying to look the way I did, like, pre-COVID, pre-six pregnancies in five years.’
She had the surgery with Dr Nick Rhodes at the Coppergate Clinic in York, where a full face lift costs upwards of £16,000.
‘He is an esteemed consultant plastic surgeon who has trained many of these London guys who charge more,’ Katherine added.
‘I have seen a lot of his before-and-after work, both in photos and in the flesh. I know real people who’ve been to see him. I think that is very important when choosing a surgeon.
‘And just like Dr Steven Levine, who did Kris Jenner, said to me, I believe that you and your surgeon have to have the same idea of what pretty is. Dr Nick Rhodes has done some work on my friends. I think they look beautiful.’
The Canadian star, who shares baby Holland, Fred, four, and Fenna, three, with husband Bobby Kootstra – and has a 16-year-old daughter, Violet, from a previous relationship – said she had ‘zero out of ten pain’ after the surgery.
‘The beauty is you’re pretty numb afterwards,’ she explained. ‘I was bruised, and I was swollen, and I think I am still a little bit swollen. But basically, I just went about my daily life from day one.
‘They sent me home with some paracetamol. If I had needed stronger drugs, I think that was available, but I didn’t. I took ibuprofen, paracetamol for like three days.’
She said that just weeks after the surgery, ‘I went to Christmas parties. I took the kids to Lapland. I went to the Royal Hall for carolling. I did all of the Christmas stuff. I looked after a newborn baby.’
Jennie Garth
Jennie Garth revealed she had plastic surgery at age 24 after starting to suffer from ‘body image issues’ while starring on Beverly Hills, 90210
Jennie Garth revealed she got plastic surgery in her 20s after suffering from ‘body image issues.’
The actress, now 54, said that she had healthy self-perception but developed body dysmorphia at some point while playing Kelly Taylor on Beverly Hills, 90210.
She explained that portraying a character whose looks were ‘scrutinized’ and feeling ‘competitive’ on set of the 90s hit changed how she looked at herself.
In her new memoir titled I Choose Me: Chasing Joy, Finding Purpose and Embracing Reinvention, Garth opened up about how playing ‘spoiled teen vixen’ in the hit series led her to seek out a plastic surgeon for a boob job and liposuction.
‘I never imagined that stepping into a character’s shoes would start to define how I saw my own reflection,’ she wrote.
‘When I began playing Kelly Taylor on Beverly Hills, 90210, I hadn’t dealt with the body image issues in my real life,’ she explained.
Garth continued: ‘Those storylines – Kelly dieting, feeling insecure, being praised or scrutinized for her looks – were foreign to me. I approached them as an actress does: with imagination and curiosity.’
She admitted that over time, her character’s thoughts started seeping into her mind.
‘Just like Kelly, I faced harsh judgments and struggled to maintain my mental health,’ Garth said.
‘The messages on the show – whether in the script or in my head – began to blur the line between character and self.’
She said the environment on the set also affected how she looked at herself and ‘brought out the competitive side of me.’
‘I felt judged based on my appearance and outfits, always internally comparing myself to my costars or guest stars joining us,’ she wrote.
‘I was a young girl and I wanted approval from Luke [Perry], Jason [Priestley], Brian [Austin Green] and Ian [Ziering], and I felt competitive with other young women and worried when I wasn’t getting noticed.’
She later noted that no one she worked with on the show made her feel like she needed to get surgery, and she said she didn’t tell them about it – though she acknowledged that people noticed, adding ‘that feeling… was addictive’.
She said 90s beauty standards also affected her; she said a ‘healthy, normal body’ with ‘curves, hips and a butt’ went from feeling like ‘assets’ to ‘problems I needed to fix’.
She said that was when she decided to get surgery for a breast augmentation following her first pregnancy and after seeing other actresses do the same.
‘They carried themselves with a new kind of energy, a little more self-assuredness,’ she wrote. ‘I started to believe that this was just what you did at a certain age’.
She also got liposuction on her hips to ‘smooth me out’ and ‘make me smaller’.
‘I wanted to disappear into the version of beauty that was being sold to all of us at the same time: small, effortless, waif-like,’ she continued.
‘And I thought if I could just carve myself into that image, maybe I’d finally feel like enough.’
Ashley Stobart
Entrepreneur and influencer Ashley Stobart had a facelift at just 34 after ‘years of filler abuse’ left her looking unrecognisable
Entrepreneur and influencer Ashley Stobart had a facelift at just 34 after ‘years of filler abuse’ left her looking unrecognisable.
Ashley Stobart, married to Ed Stobart of the well-known haulage family, spent thousands over the past decade in a bid to enhance her looks.
The blonde beauty from Cheshire admitted to undergoing treatments including botox injections, filler, liposuction, a nose job and even ‘bleph job’ on her eyelids – which removes excess skin or fat.
But in March she opted for a nine-hour-long full face, neck and lip lift to ‘squeeze out’ 4cm of filler – reversing the supposed age-defying procedure becoming increasingly popular among younger women – on both sides of her face.
Years of ‘pumping’ filler ‘anywhere’ in her face had left her ‘looking weird’ and not ‘like me anymore’, she told the Daily Mail.
Now she is urging young women against the cosmetic ‘tweakment’ warning them not to ‘try and fix things by pumping stuff into [their] faces’.
Ashley said: ‘I had my facelift in March this year, which I had done to rectify years of abuse from filler in my early 20s.
‘When I was in my 20s, given I worked in the cosmetic surgery industry for many, many years, the temptation was there.
‘At the end of the day they would say, “we have some filler or Botox left” and I’d be like “yes, put it in”.
‘Then I’d just look weird from it. I’ve had to have a lot of corrective treatments because of that.
‘It’s all about learning especially with filler and Botox. Now I would honestly say to girls please, please, please don’t get filler.
‘Botox, fair enough it’s fine. I still get Botox and a small bit of filler in my lips, but I used to pump anywhere you could with filler.
‘Then I had to rectify all of that, and have it taken out and I had loose skin.
‘Now I have put a lot of work into researching a healthy lifestyle.
‘It’s all about drinking filtered water, taking probiotics and not trying to fix things by pumping stuff into my face and painting a lot of make-up over it.’
Katie Price
In 2017, Katie Price, who was 39 at the time, underwent a ‘Silhouette Face Lift’ which is designed to boost sagging cheeks and costs around £5,000 (pictured in 2026)
In 2017, Katie Price, who was 39 at the time, underwent a ‘Silhouette Face Lift’ designed to boost sagging cheeks and costs around £5,000.
Using permanent surgical threads that remain in Katie’s skin tissue, she’ll also be able to have her face retightened every year for up to five years.
In clip shared to social media, Katie explained to her fans: ‘I just wanted to let you know I had a facelift last Friday [July 14]. This is five days after. Yes that’s right, facelift!
‘It doesn’t end there, because although he has put the threads in, in six weeks time he will pull them and my face will look even fresher.
‘I know you all think I’m mad, I am mad but I’m preventing ageing.’
However she later claimed her first facelift had been a botched job and went back under the knife the following year to correct it.
She said at the time ‘I need to get my face re-corrected after surgeon has totally f**ked my face up’, admitting it had.
He agent added: ‘She had the thread and it really quite distorted her look.
‘She got a lot of backlash, a lot of negative press, a lot of trolling, everyone saying she’d taken it too far, when actually it was a job that had not gone to plan.’
As of 2026, Katie, now 47, is reported to have undergone six facelifts.
