Kim Kardashian's plastic surgery-obsessed pals may be responsible for her new puffed-up cheeks
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Kim Kardashian's ever-changing face is raising concerns among those close to her, with some even saying she’s taking her obsession with cosmetic procedures to a whole new level.
Sources close to the situation revealed that Kim is being encouraged by her circle of friends, who seem just as into plastic surgery as she is. And let’s just say not everyone is thrilled with her new look.
Kim Kardashian's appearance at New York gala got everyone talking
On September 9, Kim Kardashian made a grand appearance at a New York gala. However, it wasn’t her outfit or her famous curves that stole the show—it was her dramatically puffed-up face. Whispers quickly spread around the event, with many attendees fixated on her noticeably fuller cheeks.
One source told Radar Online, “Kim's no stranger to the plastic surgeon's office but she's really coming across as more waxlike than ever. Her cheeks are so beefed up they look like apples, and the rest of her face just looks weird.”
Chicago-based plastic surgeon Dr Otto Placik told the outlet: "It appears she has filler in her cheeks as well as in her lower eyelids and lips. She may also have undergone buccal fat extraction to accentuate this."
While Kim is said to be on the lookout for a new high-profile beau, her choices might be working against her.
A source shared, "Kim's single and has her eyes on dating someone with superstar status, but she's not doing herself any favors with all these tweaks to her face. The problem is her friends are just as obsessed with plastic surgery, so no one's telling her the truth about how she looks."
But not everyone is keeping quiet. According to a source, some close to Kim are urging her to lay off the fillers and saying she’s “starting to look like the bride of Frankenstein!”
Kim Kardashian’s long history with cosmetic procedures
Kim Kardashian has had a rollercoaster relationship with cosmetic procedures — dating back to a 2010 episode of 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' when she first tried Botox.
Back then, the SKIMS founder freaked out over bruising from the injections. “I’m feeling like my eyes are on fire," she said on the show. "What if he hit a nerve? Seriously, I know this is not normal. What I am feeling is not normal.”
Kim admitted to having “a little bit of Botox” during a 2022 interview with Allure, but she insists that she’s never had facial fillers.
She even took things a step further on her show, revealing that she’s gotten Botox injections in her neck and joking to a voice coach that she couldn’t use her neck muscles because “half of mine are probably Botoxed.”
Kim has consistently denied getting a nose job or butt implants, even going so far as to X-ray her famous behind on 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' to prove her curves were real.
However, she’s been open about trying out non-invasive treatments like Morpheus8 — a procedure that helps tighten skin. And then there’s her love for bizarre facials, including the “vampire facial” and even salmon sperm facials.
“I always want to look appropriate,” she told Allure, admitting that there’s a fine line between looking youthful and overdoing it. “There does come a point when you’ve taken it too far—overfilled, too tight, too much cosmetic work. There’s nothing worse."
But even with this perspective, it’s clear that Kim will go to extreme lengths to maintain her appearance. “I’ll try anything,” she told the New York Times in 2022. “If you told me that I literally had to eat poop every single day and I would look younger, I might. I just might."
