Paris, the Chanel show, a new dark hair color, and a side by side of 2012 against 2026. The Daily Beast collected the comments: unrecognizable, I miss her face, facelift or whatever she did. No surgeon was asked.
So here is one. I have never examined Kristen Wiig. What follows is my opinion from photographs, the same exercise I do in every consult before I touch anything, and it is not a diagnosis. I compared her photos from March of this year against the latest.
Start With the Skin
“Looking at the photos from a few months ago compared to the latest, I think the major changes are mostly in the skin quality. In her photos in March, she appears to have a lot of sun damage and hyperpigmentation, fine lines and wrinkles in the forehead, crow’s feet, even the glabella, and small lines and wrinkles in the laugh lines. Three months ago, she had good jaw definition.”
Skin first. That is where the difference lives.
What Did Not Move
“If you compare the two time frames and look at the brows, they sit in the same position. They have not been lifted. The excess upper eyelid skin remains. The volume of the cheeks is still in the same place, and the jawline is still sharp.”
A facelift moves things. These did not move.
Weight Is a Facial Procedure
“If you look at other photos around the March timeline, it almost seems like she had lost too much weight, and that may have helped make her appear older. In the latest photos, it seems like she gained some of that weight back, which of course fills the face and makes it look younger. Of course, this can also be achieved with fillers.”
I wrote about this in the face after weight loss and again with Adriana Lima. A few pounds back is the cheapest filler there is.
What I Think Was Done
“I do think she has lip fillers and has probably undergone facial skin tightening with radiofrequency and skin resurfacing with laser. Botox has probably helped to soften those fine lines and wrinkles in the forehead and around the eyes, but you can still see the same types of wrinkles when she smiles, in the smile lines.”
Probably. From photographs. Office work, not an operating room.
The Neck Argues Against a Neck Lift
“You can see that she has platysmal banding, that is, the two lines in the neck that look separated, so that goes against her having a neck lift, because this is usually repaired at the same time.”
Two bands, still there. A surgeon who did a neck lift would have sewn them together.
The Hands
“I think the most shocking thing in her most recent photos is that if you look at her hands, they really give away her true age and are definitely a mismatch with the way her face looks.”
| What commenters saw | What the photographs show |
|---|---|
| A facelift | Brows, eyelids, cheek volume and jawline in the same place |
| A new face | New skin quality, likely resurfacing, tightening and Botox |
| Someone else | A little weight back, and lip filler |
| A neck lift | Two platysmal bands, untouched |
Read the face, not the comments. The comments saw surgery. The photographs show skin, weight and a needle. I could be wrong; that is what an exam is for.
The surgical version of this read, with what a facelift actually changes, is on agulloplasticsurgery.com. The office-treatment version, resurfacing and tightening and the injectables, is on the Southwest Plastic Surgery post.
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