Denise Richards has opened up about her recent facelift, revealing the most surprising result wasn’t what she could see in the mirror, it was what she could feel.
In an interview with Lure Richards described undergoing the procedure in late June 2025 and made her first public appearance afterward at the Netflix documentary premiere of aka Charlie Sheen on the 4th of September.
“I had a facelift at the end of June, so this was my first red carpet since my facelift,” she said. “My face still settled here. I really wanted a natural look because I didn’t want a lot on my face.”
While the visible results were clearly significant, it was an unexpected change that she keeps coming back to.
“I love my skin after my facelift. I don’t know what he did, but it changed the texture of my skin, which I didn’t expect,” she said.
The recovery also turned out to be far less terrifying than she had prepared for.
“The recovery was a lot better than I thought. There’s no way until I got it done that I would have thought I could walk a red carpet.”
Richards has been open about her history with cosmetic procedures for years. She has previously discussed getting breast implants at 19 and later revisiting cosmetic work.
Despite that experience, she said facial surgery felt completely different.
“Being in the public eye since my 20s, people know what I look like, a facelift is not something I could hide,” she said, describing the decision as “terrifying”.
