Keltie Knight is opening up about her 2023 facelift.

The 44-year-old Live from E! host detailed her cosmetic surgery years ago after fixating on “every little thing” she saw wrong in her appearance after being on camera for years.

In a candid essay for Glamour, Keltie revaeled she first tried Kybella and CoolSculpting, before getting a “minimally invasive necklift” at 35, as her plastic surgeon said she was too young for a facelift. But the necklift would only last five years, and by that time she would be able to go in for a facelift.

“My surgery was initially supposed to be three or four hours, and instead it was almost nine,” she shared. “That’s because when Dr. [Jason] Diamond pulled back my face, there was so much scar tissue from the filler and the threads and the microneedling and all the medi-spa s–t I had done that it was basically frying my face underneath.”

At the same time as her facelift, the host revealed she was also undergoing a major health issue with her uterus, where she was diagnosed with microcytic anemia, which is a blood disorder, and she had a hysterectomy in early 2024.

“I wanted to do the facelift before taking care of an actual medical issue. I was disgusted with myself. It was like, I want to die because of my uterine condition, but I’m going to fix my face first,” she wrote.

Keltie said that the facelift was “the best thing I ever did even though it was so expensive,” but she still “felt shame about actually going through with it.”

“I didn’t really know if I was going to tell anyone,” she added.

However, it wasn’t until she went to Rachel Zoe‘s birthday party, which was filmed for the latest season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, when Dorit Kemsley approached her and said, “You’re aging backward.”

“I threw out the thing that no one—except my two best gays and my husband—knew,” Keltie admitted. “I said, ‘Thanks. I had a facelift.’”

She didn’t intend to say it on camera and she wasn’t even mic’d up, but after producers later heard the conversation and were interested in possibly using it, she agreed that that it could be aired on the show.

“I thought, ‘You know what? Just own it,’” Keltie recalled. “I had written this big chapter for my book about doing whatever the f–k you want to your face and how I want to stop the drama of judgment. What if it’s good to admit you got a f–king facelift at 41? What if that actually is freeing?”

Several other celebrities have recently opened up about getting facelifts.

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