Vicki Gunvalson’s Face “Settled In” On Watch What Happens Live: What Did She Have Done?
April 2, 2013 by Hollywoodite
Real Housewives of Orange County is back for another season and the talk of the season premiere, especially at the start, was Vicki Gunvalson’s new face that she called “numb.”
Prior to airing, an on-set source told the media Gunvalson had work done on her chin and nose to lessen the Miss Piggy effect mocked by Slade Smiley during a previous episode. At the time, the production source told RumorFix.com “Vicki will reveal her new face in the first episode of Season Eight, which premieres April 1. And, the women get pretty catty… Vicki’s face was still swollen from the plastic surgery during taping. Vicki got a new chin and went under the knife for a new nose. Vicki is denying it… but they believe she was hurt when Gretchen Rossi’s boyfriend, Slade Smiley compared her to Miss Piggy in a stand-up routine.”
And Gunvalson pretty much admitted all that was true and more on RHOC. The premiere takes place two weeks after her surgery, “I’m all about renovating everything right now, whether it’s my body or my home. And I decided, what can I do to build my self esteem?”
Admitting to specific surgeries, she continues, “I’ve been ridiculed that I look like a certain character, and it does hurt me. So I went to Alexis’ plastic surgeon and I did some cartilage reconstruction on my nose, I had some fat injected in the upper part of my cheeks so I don’t have anymore wrinkles, and then he did a little chin implant.”
She elaborated on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, “I just kind of closed my eyes and [told doctors,] ‘Do what you think looks good.’” But she admitted to returning to filming too soon, adding she “shouldn’t have been on camera right away.”