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Over the summer, a plastic surgeon hung old movie stills of Denise Richards on his operating room wall. There she was in Stormship Troopers<\/em>, blue-eyed with the kind of bold brows and piecey layers that defined the \u201990s. In a way, she<\/em> defined the \u201990s. Richards was a sex symbol in a decade that absolutely idolized sex symbols, the star of Wild Things,<\/em> a Bond girl, and also had cameos on almost every era-defining show\u2014Seinfeld<\/em>, Beverly Hills 90210<\/em>, Saved by the Bell<\/em>, Melrose Place<\/em>, Married\u2026 with Children<\/em>. But back to that OR. Fast-forward about 30 years to this past June, and Richards, at age 54, had decided to get a facelift.<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted to put things back up, where they were before,\u201d says Richards, who\u2019s had about eight months now to reflect on her decision. It\u2019s not the first time she has had plastic surgery\u2014Richards had her breasts done at 19, and has had revision surgery for her implants since then. But, she says, it is the first time she\u2019s had cosmetic surgery on her face. \u201cI was terrified,\u201d says Richards, well aware that the world has watched her age. \u201cBeing in the public eye since my 20s, people know what I look like\u2014a facelift is not something that I could hide.\u201d<\/p>\n Now Richards is opening up about her plastic surgery the way the rest of us talk about what we did Tuesday morning. She is matter-of-fact and unapologetic, discussing incisions, drains, and swelling. She\u2019s sitting at home in front of scattered framed photographs, subtly made up with her long hair swept over one shoulder, and her daughter\u2019s cat occasionally popping up into our Zoom. Richards is now best known for her roles on reality TV\u2014she\u2019s been on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,<\/em> and had her own shows, including Denise Richards and Her Wild Things<\/em>. Talking to her post-facelift, though, it\u2019s hard not to think of her in the aughts, when she was in the news for her marriage, pregnancies, and divorce from actor Charlie Sheen\u2014because she just looks so much like her younger self.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is night and day,\u201d Richards says of her reflection before and after the facelift. \u201cIt’s shocking, actually.\u201d After she had the facelift, she adds, other celebrities \u201cwere more comfortable telling me about theirs, but I\u2019m not gonna name names.\u201d Still, she says, it can be good to know that \u201cit\u2019s not just serums and working out and lasers\u201d that make people like her look younger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the summer, a plastic surgeon hung old movie stills of Denise Richards on his operating room wall. There she was in Stormship Troopers, blue-eyed with the kind of bold brows and piecey layers that defined the \u201990s. In a way, she defined the \u201990s. Richards was a sex symbol in a decade that absolutely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasgai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasgai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasgai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasgai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasgai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sasgai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasgai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sasgai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasgai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sasgai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}