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The Chalene Show | Diet, Fitness & Life Balance

My Facelift Regrets: What I Wish I Knew Before Surgery - 1292

The Chalene Show | Diet, Fitness & Life Balance

Chalene Johnson

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Thinking about a facelift after 40 or 50 and wondering what facelift recovery is really like or if it is the answer to a tighter jawline? In this episode, Chalene Johnson shares the truth about facelift regrets, healing, and what plastic surgery after 40 actually involves when everything goes right. Most conversations focus on botched results or complications, but this goes deeper into the emotional impact, numbness, recovery timeline, and unexpected side effects even the best surgeons do not fully prepare you for. If you have ever considered a facelift, anti aging procedures, or questioned whether a facelift is worth it, this is the real, unfiltered perspective you need before making that decision.

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🤓 What Chalene Talks About:

  • Why a perfect facelift can still lead to regret
  • The biggest myth about pain and recovery
  • What numbness really feels like
  • The emotional side no one expects
  • Why results are not just before and after
  • Common mistakes before and after surgery
  • Hidden costs most people miss
  • Why surgeon communication matters
  • Expectations vs reality
  • Why healing is not linear
  • What going public really invites
  • The investment that matters most

 

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The Skincare Mistake Making Your Skin Worse After 40

 

Why I Got A Facelift (And Why I'm Not Sorry!)

 

5 Biggest Makeup Mistakes Making You Look Older

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I think most people assume when you say you have regret regarding your facelift that something

0:06.4

went wrong with your surgery, that there's a botched result.

0:10.6

People can see it.

0:11.5

It's like very obvious.

0:12.9

But that's not always the case.

0:14.8

I have my surgery.

0:16.1

I'm coming up on six months.

0:18.2

And I didn't have any complications during my surgery or really any major complications

0:23.0

after it. My surgery actually went right. I had very minimal pain. In fact, I would say it went

0:29.6

better than I expected in many regards. But even still, I have regrets and there are things that I

0:35.8

wish I knew, wish I had been more informed before I went

0:40.2

into this. The regrets that I have are things I haven't heard a lot of women talking about.

0:45.8

And I think that's a problem. The fact that no one really talks about these things.

0:49.2

I have regrets over some of the expectations that I had, miscommunications that occurred, and from

0:56.0

some things that I don't think a surgeon could ever prepare you for. And I definitely was not

1:00.9

prepared for the way people respond when you decide to be as public about it as I've been.

1:07.1

I think when people are considering a facelift, they think of one procedure, one recovery, one result,

1:12.9

and it's so much more layered and complicated than that.

1:16.1

There's different techniques, different ways to prepare for the surgery.

1:19.3

That makes a really big difference in your ultimate result, different ways that you can handle your healing,

1:25.1

different outcomes, different levels of pain.

1:27.1

And like, the biggest

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