Ricki Lake is opening up about her longtime pal Rosie O’Donnell recently getting a facelift after previously being “a little judgy” about her friends having them.
“Rosie is my really good friend and we talk all the time. She was judgy,” Lake, 58, revealed on The Weekend View on Saturday, October 31. “She would admit it. She was a little judgy about me and my friends that went to this doctor and had these amazing results.”
Lake has confirmed that she underwent a “deep plane lower face and neck lift along with a mild co2 laser” from Dr. Allen Foulad in Beverly Hills in 2024, noting that she’d decided to have the procedure after losing “a lot of weight.”
The former daytime talk show host commemorated two years since her facelift this past July by expressing satisfaction with the “remarkable, natural, and long-lasting” results.
In a May Substack post, O’Donnell, 64, acknowledged that she’d once felt “very strongly about facelifts” — though not on a “moral” basis — before going under the knife for a lower deep-plane facelift in January.
Discussing O’Donnell’s rejuvenated look on The Weekend View, Lake remembered that her friend often questioned why women felt the “need” to have cosmetic surgeries.
“Sure enough, she lost a bunch of weight on [GLP-1 drug] Mounjaro and she went and had it done,” Lake noted. “She looks incredible.”
O’Donnell joked in her Substack essay that she’d “assigned [herself] as head of all women who would never” have a facelift before she started rethinking her stance.
The former Rosie O’Donnell Show host shared that her 13-year-old child Clay initially discouraged her from getting a facelift, assuring her that she’d “earned [her] wrinkles.” That comment ultimately helped convince O’Donnell that she needed to teach Clay that bodies do not “belong to an idea.”
“Right before I went under, I grabbed my doctor’s hand and said, ‘I will never say, ‘God, I wish you did more.’” And I meant it,” she recalled. “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. I wanted to still be me, just … less haunted. And I do look like me — A slightly more well-rested, emotionally stable version of me.”
O’Donnell subsequently told reporters on the 2026 Tony Awards red carpet in June that she probably will not have any further cosmetic procedures for the time being.
“Authenticity is the goal in these days and times, and people are lying about everything all day to the American public. It’s very depressing to me and unsettling, and I think all that matters is truth and love,” she explained. “And so, I wanted to be truthful and say all the complicated feelings I had about it.”
