A look inside 82-year-old Patti LaBelle’s dramatic makeover
Patti LaBelle made fans do a double take during a recent podcast appearance looking decades younger than her 82 years, as a top Beverly Hills plastic surgeon exclusively tells us RadarOnline.com The music icon’s remarkably youthful appearance is the result of expertly performed cosmetic procedures that preserve her natural beauty.
Triple board certified plastic surgeon Dr. Raffi Hovesepian pointed out the iconic singer’s “extraordinary degree of face-saving,” noting that she still looks like herself despite the likely folds and creases that have stopped Father Time in his tracks.
“What immediately catches my attention is not simply the absence of wrinkles. Rather, it is the preservation of the overall facial architecture,” notes Dr. Hovesepian on Labelle’s recent performance at Angie Martinez’s IRL podcast.
He noted that by the time a person is in their eighties, he or she is already experiencing the aging effects of “cramps, sagging neck, flattening of the cheeks, deepening folds, skeletal prominence, and general facial deflating.”
“Yet Patti LaBelle appears to have retained much of the structural support that normally diminishes with age,” the aesthetics professional marveled.
The doctor explained that “extraordinary aging is rarely the result of one procedure. It is usually the product of decades of investment in conservation.”
In LaBelle’s case, Dr. Hovsepian possible procedures over the years that the New attitude Singer looking this incredible will likely include a deep facelift, neck lift, facial fat grafting, jaw volume restoration, skin resurfacing, collagen stimulation treatments, regenerative therapies, exosome-based treatments and, most importantly, “long-term physician-directed maintenance.”
“When facial support, skin quality, neck contour and volume maintenance all persist into the eighth decade of life, we typically look at the cumulative effects of advanced long-term maintenance rather than a single treatment,” he explained.
“Her appearance appears to be consistent with a combination of facial rejuvenation strategies, including surgical lifting procedures, volume restoration techniques, advanced skin treatments, regenerative therapies and meticulous long-term aesthetic maintenance,” Dr. Hovsepian on LaBelle’s incredible overall aesthetic.
“Ultimately, the most impressive aspect of her appearance isn’t that she looks younger. It’s that she looks vibrant, recognizable, healthy and unmistakably Patti LaBelle.”
From 2014 The right kind of lover The singer said she has only had one plastic surgery procedure done on her face, and that was a nose job in the early 1980s.
“I would tell my younger self not to have a problem with the way I looked… not to worry about that nose. I had a bigger nose, so I had a rhinoplasty — that’s the only surgery I’ve ever had on my face or my body,” she said. Access to Hollywood at the time.
However, LaBelle regretted the rhinoplasty procedure.
“I beat myself up because my nose looked like that, and my nose was fine before I changed it… I would have said, ‘Patti, back in the day you shouldn’t have touched your nose. Be yourself,'” she added.
