Rosie O'Donnell Was 'Looking Sad' Despite Being 'So Happy' Before Secret Facelift, Ana Navarro Says
Rosie O'Donnell Was 'Looking Sad' Despite Being 'So Happy' Before Secret Facelift, Ana Navarro Says
Catherine SantinoFri, May 29, 2026 at 8:53 PM UTC
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Rosie O'Donnel and Ana Navarro.
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On The View, co-host Ana Navarro said that Rosie O'Donnell got a facelift because she was "looking sad" despite feeling "so happy"
"I said to her, 'For me, being a feminist means doing something that makes you feel empowered and happy," Navarro recalled
O'Donnell revealed in a May 25 Substack post that she secretly underwent a facelift in January
Ana Navarro is sharing some insight into Rosie O'Donnell's decision to get a facelift.
On the Friday, May 29, episode of The View, Navarro, 54, said that she contacted former co-host O'Donnell, 64, after the comedian revealed this week that she secretly underwent a facelift.
"I said to her, 'For me, being a feminist means doing something that makes you feel empowered and happy.' And she said, ‘I wanted to do this because I was looking sad when I’m feeling so happy.'"
Navarro added that a driving force behind O'Donnell's decision was her dramatic weight loss over the years.
"She said, ‘The headline was I had Mounjaro face. Now, I look and feel great.’ And she wanted a doctor that was a minimalist. So if you see, it’s not like a dramatic thing where all of a sudden it looks like she’s from a different ethnicity. She looks like Rosie O’Donnell without the lines."
In a Monday, May 25, Substack post, O'Donnell revealed that she got a lower deep plane facelift in January that “cost more money than I have ever paid for a car.” She also shared before-and-after photos on Instagram.
Rosie O'Donnell before and after her facelift.
Credit: Rosie O'Donnell/Instagram (2)
“My privileged place in this world,” she continued. “And that feels almost shameful to me. The things I have - earned some say, but [it's] the gross excess that wounds me.”
O'Donnell prefaced her post by explaining that she’d always felt “very strongly about facelifts” and prided herself on being someone “who would never - ever" have one done.
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“I thought it was a betrayal. Of feminism. Of aging. Of our team of women worldwide. And then I lost 50 pounds…,” she wrote.
“There’s a point where acceptance starts to feel like lying,” O'Donnell added.
The star explained that she researched facelifts, but her feelings towards them shifted again when her daughter Clay, 13, found out and advised against it. (O'Donnell is mom to Clay as well as kids Parker Jaren O'Donnell, 31, Chelsea Belle O'Donnell, 28, Blake Christopher O'Donnell, 26, and Vivienne Rose O'Donnell, 23.)
Clay "sounded exactly like me. Like my younger, more certain, more morally rigid self had somehow moved into my house," O'Donnell explained. She saw the exchange as a learning opportunity for her children. “I want them to grow up in a world where they don't feel like they have to change but also know they can, if they want to, without losing moral standing in their own lives."
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She concluded her post by calling this stage of her life "act 3."
“As I get ready for the last day of school with my youngest - the caboose, here at 64 years old with a new lower face and neck, just happy to be alive. Able to feel and choose and use my voice whenever I feel called to," she shared. "For the girl I was. The woman I am."
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