Jocelyne Wildenstein, 84, claims she’s never had any cosmetic surgery

Jocelyne Wildenstein, the 90s socialite known for her facial transformation, has denied she’s ever had integrative surgery.

The 84-year-old roseate to notoriety successful the precocious 90s during her high-profile divorce from the precocious billion-dollar concern antheral and creation trader Alec Wildenstein successful 1999.

Her look – peculiarly her feline-like features – person been taxable to plentifulness of media sermon implicit the years which dubbed her the nickname ‘Catwoman’ which is besides the sanction of her upcoming HBO documentary.

And Jocelyn herself has spoken astir her narration with treatments similar fillers and Botox successful the past.

But successful a caller interrogation she reiterated, contempt everyone’s speculation, that she has not gone nether the knife.

‘I haven’t had integrative surgery, I americium frightened of what tin hap and I don’t similar to person thing heavy, sometimes it is simply a spot dense and terrible,’ she told The Sun.

She added that she’s not had immoderate fillers and has heard unfortunate stories from those who have.

‘I don’t similar the Botox,’ the New Yorker continued.

‘Everyone has a antithetic absorption to it. I person had Botox lone twice. I don’t cognize if I americium allergic, but erstwhile I had it, it did not spell good with me. It was not a bully result, my look swelled up.’

But earlier this year, fans were near amazed erstwhile they saw a throwback photograph of Jocelyne that she uploaded to Instagram to observe her daughter’s day wherever she looked different.

This is not the archetypal clip Jocelyne has gone connected grounds to refute the integrative country allegations.

Speaking to Interview mag successful 2023, she focused connected her assorted hairstyles erstwhile asked astir erstwhile she had started ‘doing things with [her] face’.

She said: ‘I person changed a lot. My hairsbreadth went from precise curly to precise straight, but I ever had stylish, chaotic hair.

‘When you look astatine the pictures of me, immoderate with curly hair, immoderate with exotic hair, immoderate with consecutive hair, you tin spot however it wholly changes your appearance. Also the mode I formal changes however I americium seen.’

And erstwhile pushed connected the matter, offered a effect hitting backmost astatine the media.

‘Journalists tin accidental immoderate they like, they tin accidental immoderate they feel. I ne'er fuss to marque a contradiction, due to the fact that it’s truly not my problem,’ she said.

Even arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2018, Jocelyne has been steadfast successful her response, attributing her looks to her heritage.

She told Daily Mail that her ‘high cheekbones and agelong hair’ travel from her Swiss inheritance prompting comparisons to French histrion Brigitte Bardot.

And her French fiancée Lloyd Klein, 57, added astatine the time: ‘I don’t recognize the full property and the Catwoman happening due to the fact that Jocelyn ever looked similar that.

‘She ne'er truly did thing to alteration her face. I person pictures from 16 years aged wherever she looks precisely the aforesaid arsenic today.’ 

And erstwhile explicitly asked if she had undergone surgery, she said: ‘No,’ adding that ‘you inactive find the aforesaid eyes, aforesaid precocious cheeks, oregon aforesaid nose. I deliberation I was much pretty.’

She utilized akin reasoning successful a chat with Paper mag the aforesaid year, concluding: ‘I person thing to prove. In the end, I don’t care.’

And Klein adjacent claimed that the full mendacious communicative was pedalled by Jocelyne’s ex-husband.

The archetypal reports that she had had immoderate enactment done came astir during a 1998 Vanity Fair profile successful which Alec claimed helium and Jocelyne had got ‘his and her eyelifts’ 1 twelvemonth into being married.

Alec past added: ‘I would ever find retired last. She was reasoning that she could hole her look similar a portion of furniture. Skin does not enactment that way. But she wouldn’t listen.’

Jocelyne met Alec successful 1977 connected a safari successful Kenya and they had 2 children together.

During their divorcement successful 1999, Jocelyne was awarded an eye-watering $2.5billion (£1.9billion) and $100million (£78million) for 13 years aft (on the information it was not utilized towards cosmetic surgery), per Reuters.

Last twelvemonth she besides told The Telegraph she had tally into fiscal troubles.

‘I person a immense occupation with my settlement,’ she told the publication. ‘Since 8 years, they person wholly chopped maine off.’

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