Top plastic surgeon explains Lindsay Lohan’s ‘unrecognizable’ new face – and the staggering amount it may have cost
If you want a lesson in what some plastic surgeons have come to call ‘undetectable’ plastic surgery, then Lindsay Lohan is a good place to start.
The Mean Girls actress, 38, stunned fans late last month at the launch of her new Netflix rom-com ‘Our Little Secret’ in Los Angeles, where she looked as though she had captured the fountain of youth.
But many were quick to comment about her glow-up, with one saying after watching the trailer, ‘Lohan aging like fine wine! Hot damn!’ and another saying, ‘Lindsay Lohan is looking stunning! I’m glad she’s doing well.’
New York City-based plastic surgeon Gary Linkov has now revealed the surgeries he believes the icon may have received.
He suggested that she had started recieving lip fillers in her late-teens or early-20s, adding that since then, the 38-year-old actor appears to have had a number of other procedures.
He put her ‘refreshed’ appearance down to a combination of a facelift to smooth out lines and tighten her jawline, an upper eyelid lift to reduce skin above the eyes, a nose job to make it more streamlined, and a fat transfer to her face to make it appear youthful.
Dr Linkov broke down the cost of each procedure, such as $50 thousand for lip filler over 19 years, a facelift for $80 thousand, and veneers for $40 thousand. In total, he said she likely spent around $275,000 over the years on improvements to her appearance.
Lindsay has hit back at speculation that she had plastic surgeries, with her father Michael Lohan telling Page Six late last month that she has ‘never had any work done’.
The actress herself previously credited her appearance to little more than a good skincare routine.
Lindsay Lohan pictured left in Mean Girls in 2004 and right after stepping out for the launch of her new rom-com in Los Angeles last month. Dr Gary Linkov suggested she had likely had lip filler, a nose job, and possibly also a face lift to reduce lines and tighten her jawline. He also suggested she may have had an upper bletharoplasty, to remove skin from the top of her eyes
In a YouTube video, Dr Linkov said that in 2005, shortly after she had done the Mean Girls movie — he saw signs that she had used lip filler.
‘I’m noticing some added… projection, of her upper lip in particular, and some of the filler seems to be settling out just above the vermillion border.’
The vermillion border is the distinct line between where the red part of the lip meets the surrounding skin.
In 2011, he noted that her upper lip appeared to be ‘heavier’ — suggesting more use of fillers — and that in later years there were fine lines appearing on her forehead, which is a natural part of aging.
The fine lines had eased by 2018, however, which led Dr Linkov to suggest that she may have been using Botox during this time.
He further suggested that she had used more lip filler in 2019, at the age of 33 years, saying the size of the upper lip was now similar to the lower lip, and also suggesting she may have used cheek filler as well around this time.
Dr Linkov said Lindsay likely began receiving lip filler when she was 19 and continued to do so for about 19 years
Dr Linkov said that Lindsay appears to have dissolved some of her lip filler in 2022 after nearly two decades of getting the injectables
Viewing photos of her from this year, he added that she had likely had several other procedures.
He said: ‘I see signs of a potential endoscopic facelift,’ which involves the surgeon making small cuts near the hairline and behind the ear, using a small camera called an endoscope to see the tissue underneath, and then using special tools to move the tissue, tighten the muscles, and remove fat.
Dr Linkov added that she shows less fullness beneath her chin and less pronounced creases running from the side of the nose to the corners of the mouth, also referred to as nasolabial folds.
Dr Linkov added: ‘What I’m noticing is there’s less submental fullness (fullness beneath the chin) and that there’s less pronounced nasal labial fold [that she had previously.
He added: ‘And the jawline just looks tighter, it looks tighter than it did in previous years.’
He posited that she underwent an upper bletharoplasty — or an operation to reduce skin above the eyes – in 2022.
‘That platform of the upper eyelid just appears to be more visible compared to prior.’
And he also suggested she may have had a nose job, saying that the top of her nose just appeared smaller than it was previously.
‘I don’t think Lindsay ever had a bulbous nose,’ he said, ‘but it now looks more narrowed and more streamlined’.
He said scars from these procedures were not visible because any from a potential endoscopic facelift would be behind the hairline, while any from an upper bletharoplasty would be hidden because of the way that the skin in the eye folds.
He said Lindsay may have had an upper blepharoplasty, as her upper eyelid appears to show more of the tarsal platform, a typical result from removing excess skin during the procedure, with the scar often hidden in the crease
Dr Linkov was not able to observe Lindsay in person, and instead based his comments on observations from her photos.
Lindsay’s father previously said: ‘Lindsay never had any plastic surgery done ever.
‘Her look [is] so natural — just like her talent’, and he added that it was ‘disgusting’ for people to ‘propagate false narratives’ about stars.
After questioning, he did concede that the Mean Girls star had done peels, fillers and Botox.
The actor grew up in front of the camera from being a child star to tabloid fodder during her tumultious young adult years, but stepped away from the limelight for a period. Since then, she has recaptured Americans’ love of all things nostalgia.
Her return to the big screen has plastic surgeons buzzing about the possible foray into a new era of undetectable plastic surgery, with one esthetician gushing: ‘I need to know absolutely everything that occurred between 2018 to 2024 to have this crazy of a transformation. I’m in the industry and I’m at a loss for words.”
