# What did Meg Ryan do to her face? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396 "2003-10-09T02:10:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/1 "2003-10-09T02:10:48Z")
On the cover of that stalwart and upstanding newspaper, The Star, is a picture of Meg Ryan. I can’t find the photo on-line, but if someone has seen it, please reassure me the picture was photoshopped and she did not. . . butcher her face with plastic surgery. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/2 "2003-10-09T02:16:05Z")
[Here’s a picture.](http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/archives/000303.html) The one in The Star is even worse. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/3 "2003-10-09T02:17:11Z")
HO-LEE CRAP! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/4 "2003-10-09T02:20:01Z")
From the link: “I think she has also had cheek implants, her face looks rounder in the second photo.” Maybe she put on some pounds? Isn’t that a little more likely? ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/5 "2003-10-09T02:23:46Z")
Are we sure that second photo is really her? ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/6 "2003-10-09T02:29:28Z")
That’s just not right. I’d wager the second pic has been altered or it isn’t her. If it is, I hope her surgeon has good insurance. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/7 "2003-10-09T02:32:08Z")
That second picture looks like Melanie Griffith. ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/8 "2003-10-09T02:35:37Z")
Trout lips. Not even good ones. God she looks awful. Who in the world ever told her that would look _better_? She looks perfectly…and not even perfectly…horrible. What was once cute is now…well, I’ll let you know when they invent the word. She wasn’t even that adorable to begin with…but was way cuter than that! Why would anyone think a warped, over-inflated mouth is prettier than the natural one? Gah. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/9 "2003-10-09T02:37:25Z")
Her lips look like they’ll explode if you touch them. Why would she do that? She was still looking pretty damn good. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/10 "2003-10-09T03:15:24Z")
That’s not her. Different eye shape and color. Different nose. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/11 "2003-10-09T03:47:20Z")
I saw that in the grocery store line today too, **Biggirl**. Maybe it’s their Halloween issue. The photo is so bizarre that I just assumed it was fake - along the lines of Batboy or The Human Head Transplant. [This is really too small](http://www.starmagazine.com/star/newsstand.cfm) to see just how frightening it really is, but you get the idea. Sort of. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/12 "2003-10-09T03:54:40Z")
[Here’s another pic](http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/archives/000258.html). The second one looks more like Meg. ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/13 "2003-10-09T05:04:42Z")
It looks like she’s wearing the same thing in both of those “after” pictures. Which may or may not mean anything. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/14 "2003-10-09T09:13:04Z")
Damn, she looks terrible. I always believed her face had a kind of cuteness to it, but not anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/15 "2003-10-09T09:35:25Z")
If it is MR, she looks botox’d. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/16 "2003-10-09T15:54:00Z")
I’m with Scylla on this one. The eyes in the “before” and “after” pictures don’t seem to match. ---
**Author:** ![Ripley2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@Ripley2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripley2004)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/17 "2003-10-09T16:07:30Z")
Those lips do not in any way go with her delicate facial features. She was aging gracefully before. Another slave to the Hollywood machine. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/18 "2003-10-09T16:23:57Z")
OK, I broke down and purchased The Star. Inside they have a multiple “after” shots. They’ve got her at the Toronto Film Festival and. . . lordamercy, it looks like she’s had even _more_ done. [url=“[http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/3296.htm](http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/3296.htm)”]The New York Post\*\* gossip page is talking about Meg’s “botched” plastic surgery. > [@](#): > > Cher has clearly changed over the decade - she’s gotten a lot of facial work and body work. And Meg Ryan had her face changed," speculates Wells, who has done everything from neck lifts to ear lifts. > > Wells recalls patients in the 1970s coming to him after Elvis died, asking to look like the King. > > “A Japanese girl once brought me a picture of a blond Scandinavian girl,” he says, laughing. > > It’s here where the line must be drawn, advises doctors. Plastic surgery can get ugly - when it gets to be an addiction. > > Some patients (like Jocelyn Wildenstein or, most recently, Ryan) have had botch jobs, and wind up looking worse than they did when they walked into the office. The Star has her quoted as loving her new look. It looks like that’s really her. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/19 "2003-10-09T16:25:54Z")
[http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/3296.htm](http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/3296.htm) The link and a warning: Preview! They should have a “preview” button at the plastic surgeons office. ---
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396/20 "2003-10-09T16:28:15Z")
Here’s a more attractive photo from the Andrew Anthony [column](http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1055971,00.html) in last Sunday’s _Observer_, which directly comments on the lip changes, as well as her upcoming movie _In the Cut_. > [@](#): > > I think you have to take your hat off to her in In the Cut, and not just because she takes her knickers off, but because she removes all trace of her celebrity. But as for her lips, that’s a mystery, and one, I imagine, on which they will remain firmly, if voluminously, sealed. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-meg-ryan-do-to-her-face/206396.md?page=2)