Heidi Montag is probably more famous for her plastic surgery procedures than for her acting career, and after some pictures surfaced on Radaronline.com with some surgical tape on her nose she explained to Life & Style magazine that is not because of a new rhinoplasty but routine on her regular life since her last nose job in November.
She explains: "Except for filming and a few photo shoots, I've had my nose tape on 24 hours a day since November… It takes a year for your nose to heal. This is just the first photo that anyone has seen of it… The last time I didn't wear tape after surgery and my nose changed shape… The tape is supposed to keep the swelling down and hold my nose in place the way Dr. Ryan sculpted it. Dr. Ryan always said I was his best, most cautious patient, and I'm not taking any chances now that he's gone. I don't want my face to fall off like Michael Jackson's."
Heidi Montag started to show her interest in plastic surgery getting a rhinoplasty and breast implants. She actually improve her image after those first procedures, giving her face and body better proportions, but in 2010 she shocked her fans revealing that she got 10 cosmetic surgery procedures in the same day with her surgeon, Dr. Ryan, who tragically died in a car accident recently.
She has said previously that she is obsessed with plastic surgery, but recently admitted that she would like to have her breast implants size reduced, which could give her back a better proportion on her body and allow her to do more activities, right now they are so big that she complains that she can't even work out.
“Whatever women need to do to feel sexy, they should do... I’ve always been very insecure about my body. My whole life, I looked at my chest and was like, OK, they’re going to grow. This is my year! And it never happened. I was less than an A-cup. I wore pushup bras, which cut into my skin. If I was with a guy and there was a girl next to me with big boobs, I would be like, Oh, my God, he’s looking at her! On the beach, if I was standing next to a girl with big boobs, I’d be like, I hate her! I hated my nose too. I have my dad’s nose, which is huge. It took up so much of my face, when I looked down, I could see my nose. I couldn’t get away from it!”
About the day of her first surgery she said: “I woke up, and it was like Christmas: I was a nervous wreck, but I was just so excited at the same time. Spencer said, “I’m so proud of you.” It was like he was wishing me well off to school: “Love you! Bye!” But surgery is a very big deal. Right before I went in, I was like, What if I don’t wake up? Oh, this is scary. Then I thought, I don’t care. If I don’t wake up, it’s worth it. I just wanted it so badly.”
Heidi Montag Facelift
Not long after her unveiling Heidi expressed remorse about having all the procedures performed, and in December she shared photos of her scars with Life & Style. In the article she blamed the surgical procedures for ending her career and compared herself to Edward Scissorhands.
Heidi Montag just celebrated her 25th birthday with a party at club Vanity inside the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, so we thought we might catch up on how her face and body are holding up more than a year and a half after being so brutally sliced, sucked, pumped and otherwise artificially “enhanced” by Dr. Frank Ryan.
Let’s start off with a “Heidi Montag’s face through the years” montage with photos of Heidi from the last five years, including a nice photo of her at Volkswagen’s US premiere of their new Tiguan Concept SUV in 2006 (supposedly before she had any work done) and one of her in 2010 just after revealing her new post-procedures look:
In her second plastic surgery, in 2009, Heidi Montag nipped, tucked and completely reshaped 10 different parts of her body. She further enlarged her already enhanced breasts, revised her earlier nose job, had a brow lift, Botox injected into her forehead, fat injections in her cheeks, a chin reduction, neck liposuction, her ears pinned back, leg liposuction on the inside and outside and her back scooped out for a curvier look. Months after her dramatic surgeries, Heidi Montag was seen wearing surgical tape on her nose, she told Life & Style magazine, "I don't want my face to fall off like Michael Jackson...The tape is supposed to keep the swelling down and hold my nose in place."
Heidi Montag Cheek
Montag said when she woke from her 10-hour plastic surgery, she thought, "I was gonna die, out of pain." The most excruciating procedure, she said, was getting her ears pinned back. "They cut the whole back of it off. And then they re-pin it, and then they cut off some of my earlobe... [It] is the most painful procedure an adult can get. If I would have known that, I would never have done that. I wasn't even warned."