She’s shared a cosmetic surgery update after dealing with postpartum hair loss and, as usual, it’s complicated.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Words by Charley Ross<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/imago817693872-scaled.jpg” alt=”Jennifer Aniston” title_text=”CA: Gold House 4th Annual GOLD GALA – Arrivals Chrissy Teigen arrives at the Gold House 4th Annual GOLD GALA held at the” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Chrissy Teigen has posted a refreshingly honest update on her cosmetic surgery journey, this time dealing with a postpartum symptom: hair thinning and loss. ‘I had a hairline lowering procedure,’ she wrote on her Instagram story to explain posts she\u2019d made from a hospital bed. ‘Lost a lot in the front from babies and it\u2019s just very thin up there.’<\/p>\n She also got real about what you see during her most glamorous moments \u2013 namely red carpets. ‘When you see it on the carpet it\u2019s ALWAYS extensions,’ Teigen wrote. ‘Anyhow I’ll share more later if you’re interested in the journey because it really is a journey.’ The story also included a selfie she took which showed the stitches across her hairline.<\/p>\n Research\u00a0says that over 90% of women have experienced postpartum hair loss. This shift can be due to changes in hormones during and after pregnancy \u2013 hair first grows thicker, and then sheds as hormone levels return to normal.<\/p>\n This trademark honesty from Teigen could not be more welcome \u2013 postpartum symptoms like hair thinning and loss aren\u2019t talked about enough, leading to unnecessary stigma and shame during an already emotional time for new mothers and parents. It also does so much to lift the veil when it comes to red carpet events \u2013 celebrities really do have the most incredible access to wellness and beauty procedures, and it\u2019s so helpful when they are honest about it, so we can reconcile our own lives and looks with rocketing beauty standards.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not the first time that Teigen has spoken out in an honest and refreshing way about her body. Back in May 2020, she posted on Instagram about having our breast implants removed.<\/p>\n ‘A lot of people are understandably curious (and nosey!) so I\u2019ll just say it here: I\u2019m getting my boobs out! They\u2019ve been great to me for many years but I\u2019m just over it,’ she wrote. ‘I\u2019d like to be able to zip a dress in my size, lay on my belly with pure comfort! No biggie! So don\u2019t worry about me! All good. I\u2019ll still have boobs, they\u2019ll just be pure fat. Which is all a tit is in the first place. A dumb, miraculous bag of fat.’<\/p>\n So let\u2019s unpack this a bit further. Teigen’s honesty around her procedure, and others she\u2019s had before, speaks to the fact that she\u2019s free to have whatever she\u2019d like done to her body \u2013 and sharing her experiences as a high-profile celebrity allows other women who may be feeling stigma around similar body image or postpartum issues to know they’re not alone.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}”] However, it\u2019s also worth arguing that her post is also proof of yet another procedure that women may now feel obligated to get or feel pressured into. The beauty standards that we are held to seem to change and escalate every day, and while transparency when it comes to the reality of celebrity procedures is helpful in terms of authenticity, it also breeds further expectation and comparison culture. After all, these procedures are expensive, and celebrity access to them is due to a considerable wealth gap between them and so many of us. So it\u2019s important to weigh up any pressure this openness has on our own expectations of our bodies.<\/p>\n Like so many women, Teigen has been on a journey with her body and what she wants it to look like. And motherhood has shifted a lot of that for her. But Teigen has always been frank about the decisions she\u2019s made when it comes to cosmetic surgery. Back in a 2020 interview with Glamour UK<\/em>, she got real about the breast augmentation surgery she had at 20.<\/p>\n ‘Yeah, I did my boobs when I was about 20 years old,’ she said. ‘It was more for a swimsuit thing. I thought, if I\u2019m going to be posing, laid on my back, I want them to be perky! But then you have babies and they fill up with milk and deflate and now I am screwed.’<\/p>\n Her post about her recent surgery aligns with her own constant battle against unrealistic expectations of women\u2019s bodies and beauty standards.<\/p>\n ‘You can\u2019t set these expectations for people that everything is perfect. Everyone filters their sh*t, edits or\u00a0Facetunes so you forget what normal faces or bodies look like,’ she has said. ‘It\u2019s not fair and it makes you jealous of other people\u2019s bodies. It\u2019s lying to people by omission. But also, while you want to teach your kids to be comfortable in their own skin, you want to tell them everything you can and let them decide.’<\/p>\n So the complexity of female body image and the additional pressure applied through celebrity culture continues to unfurl. We salute Teigen in her honesty and her continued body image journey. But it’s also important to remember that while having such surgery is a privilege and valid choice, it is not an obligation when it comes to loving and accepting your body.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”] Photo: <\/b>IMAGO<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" She’s shared a cosmetic surgery update after dealing with postpartum hair loss and, as usual, it’s complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10255"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10265,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255\/revisions\/10265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘I had a hairline lowering procedure’ \u2013 Chrissy Teigen<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]