Former talk show icon Ricki Lake reflects with a heart full of gratitude on a personal journey.
Marking a significant milestone, Lake took to Instagram on Saturday, July 18, to celebrate two years since her facelift. She shared captivating before-and-after images documenting her transformative experience.
“Celebrating my two-year facelift anniversary today! Precisely, I underwent a deep plane lower face and neck lift, paired with a mild CO2 laser treatment two years back,” Lake explained in her post. “Thanks to my gifted and compassionate surgeon, Dr. Allen Foulad @drallenfoulad, the journey was phenomenal, delivering impressive, natural results that have truly endured.”
Reflecting on her motivation, Lake, 57, shared, “In 2023, after shedding 40 pounds over a year, I was left with sagging skin under my chin — it was never going to firm up naturally on its own.”
These days, transparency about plastic surgery is becoming more common among celebrities. Unlike some who opt for discretion, stars like Denise Richards, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Jessi Ngatikaura, and Heidi Montag are open about their procedures. Montag, after reversing some of her enhancements in 2013, shared with Us Weekly the internal battle she faced with her choices.
“I took a leap of faith and I’m so grateful I did,” she added. “I am also very glad to see so many people over these past couple of years opening up about their own plastic surgery journeys.”
Alongside the caption, Lake used the hashtags #transparency, #selflove, #plasticsurgery, #thisis57 and #grateful.
Back in March, Lake opened up about deciding to have a facelift without doing much research into the process.
“I told my doctor, Dr. Alan Fouad, who I met through another friend, that I didn’t do any research when I decided very impulsively to have my face done,” the actress said on the “Inside Edit” podcast.
Ricki Lake rose to fame in 1988’s Hairspray, playing self-proclaimed “pleasantly plump” leading lady Tracy Turnblad. “Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career,” Lake told Good Morning America in December 2010 after she lost 130 pounds. “Through my adolescence and, you know, […]
“Anyway, she had this experience [and] I saw her eight days after her surgery, and not only did she look amazing, she was euphoric,” she said of her friend. “She was like a different person. She was just on top of the world.”
“I had just lost 40 pounds, and I had this [skin] hanging,” Lake said, referring to her neck.
Since undergoing the procedure, Lake has been happy to openly talk about having a facelift.
“I love that I can talk about it. I’m fully transparent, always have been,” she said. “I don’t want there to be any stigma. This is something that was bothering me.”
“I lost a lot of weight and I had this certain thing hanging and I had it fixed,” she added.
Other stars who have been candid about having facelifts include Kris Jenner, Jane Fonda, Sharon Osbourne and more.