Ricki Lake is looking back with gratitude.
The former talk show host celebrated two years since she had a facelift via Instagram on Saturday, July 18, sharing new photos from before and after the procedure.
“Happy 2 year anniversary to me. Yes, 2 years ago today, I had a facelift. Specifically, for those wondering, I had a deep plane lower face and neck lift along with a mild co2 laser,” she wrote alongside the images. “My incredibly talented and kind surgeon, Dr. Allen Foulad @drallenfoulad made the experience a wonderful one and my results have been remarkable, natural, and long-lasting.”
Lake, 57, continued, “Back in 2023, I had lost 40 lbs over the course of a year and did not like the extra skin that hung from below my chin. It was never going to tighten up by itself.”
“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.
