Rosie O’Donnell reveals the cost of her facelift: ‘I would never spend that on a car’

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Rosie O’Donnell at the 2026 Tony AwardsCredit: Jamie McCarthy/GettyKey Points -

Rosie O’Donnell reveals the price of her facelift.

The actress had the cosmetic procedure in January after going back and forth on whether to do it.

O’Donnell also says she’s happier and healthier than ever.

Rosie O’Donnell went back and forth on getting a facelift, and the price tag had something to do with it.

In a new interview with PEOPLE published Tuesday, the actress and former talk show host admitted that she spent $90,000 on the cosmetic procedure in January.

“I didn’t make it public until everyone started saying, ‘You look so much better. What are you doing?’ I didn’t want to be one of those people who says, ‘Oh, nothing,’” O’Donnell, 64, admitted. “So why do I look like this? $90,000. I was worried about the cost. I don’t like to waste money. I would never spend that on a car.”

After losing 60 pounds with the help of GLP-1 Mounjaro, O’Donnell “had a lot of excess skin” on her chin and it made her “look sad.” She toiled over the idea of surgery as a feminist who wanted to age gracefully under “the male gaze,” but finally decided that it was worth it.

“I didn’t want my face to be frozen,” she confessed, adding that her child Clay, 13, questioned her mom’s decision to go under the knife. “I changed my mind for six months and then decided the real power of feminism [is] to decide what we want to do with our bodies and when.”

O’Donnell insisted Clay doesn’t even know she had the procedure, telling our sister site PEOPLE, “Still hasn’t [noticed]. I hope they don’t pick up [this] magazine . . . but you never know.”

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The A League of Their Own star first shared news of her facelift in May, posting a lengthy note on her Substack about initially thinking it was a “betrayal” of her womanhood.

“And then I had this quiet realization ... if I’m teaching Clay anything, it can’t be that my body belongs to an idea either. Even a good idea. Even feminism. Because that’s still not freedom - that’s just a different authority telling you what you’re allowed to do with your own face,” she wrote of Clay, who is autistic and nonbinary.

Rosie O’Donnell on her talk show in 1996Credit: Frank Micelotta/Getty

O’Donnell continued, “I want them to grow up in a world where they don’t feel like they have to change but also knows they can, if they want to, without losing moral standing in their own life. So in January, I did it.”

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In her chat with PEOPLE, O’Donnell also said she feels “much healthier, more powerful in my own physicality” than ever before in her 60s and is enjoying time with her five kids—Parker, 31, Chelsea, 28, Blake, 26, Vivienne, 23, and Clay—and her grandkids.

“It’s glorious,” O’Donnell, who moved to Ireland last year but is back in New York for her one-woman show Common Knowledge, said of life these days. “When you’re 40 or 30, you’re worried all the time—am I doing it right? Now I don’t really care.”

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