Comedian Katherine Ryan has confirmed that the operation she told listeners she had in December was a full facelift. The 42-year-old disclosed the details on her podcast, Telling Everybody Everything, having previously said the procedure could potentially become a work project.
Ryan said she uses her face for work and wants to recognise herself in the mirror as the woman she feels like. She also said it was important for her marriage to Bobby that they both get to enjoy their children and that they should both have the same amount of physical damage. Ryan has been pregnant six times in five years and has openly discussed the baby losses she has endured.
She added that her face had “got fat and thin and fat and thin” and that she needed to “reclaim my identity, to reclaim my autonomy, to claw back the face that I had in 2019.” In typically candid remarks, she joked: “I got a facelift for you. I didn’t do it for me. This was a selfless act.”
The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons has reported an 8% increase in facelifts in the UK in 2024. A survey by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery found that 26-32% of facelifts are now performed on patients aged 35-55.
