Plastic surgeons reveal why Tom Brady's face looked so 'gaunt' at Super Bowl amid face lift rumors

Tom Brady sparked integrative country rumors this play portion commentating for the Super Bowl after users noticed his svelte face.

During his spot astatine the Super Bowl, fans said the 47-year-old shot fable looked similar a 'skeleton', with his look 'all the mode pulled back.'

The seven-time title backmost has agelong been the taxable of nip and tuck rumors, but integrative surgeons told DailyMail.com from looking astatine the Super Bowl footage that Brady's look seems much choky and youthful.

Some suggested his 'stretched and lifted' tegument could beryllium a motion that helium had a look assistance wrong the past 3 months, arsenic the tegument inactive looks 'very tight' and tense.

They besides said Brady 'almost certainly' has used Botox, which freezes muscles to assistance trim wrinkles, and laser tegument resurfacing, which removes damaged layers of tegument to marque tegument look smoother and much even.

Other experts, however, said it's 'unlikely' Brady went nether the weapon and alternatively touted his famously strict fare and workout routine for his gradually thinning face.

They said due to the fact that Brady is present retired, helium whitethorn person shifted his workout regimen to absorption little connected bulking up and much connected staying trim. 

Normal aging could besides beryllium astatine play, they speculated, and they rejected rumors astir Brady having abdominous removed from his cheeks.

DailyMail.com reached retired to Brady's representatives for comment. 

Dr Corey Maas, integrative surgeon and proprietor of The Maas Clinic successful San Francisco, told DailyMail.com: 'This is the classical look of idiosyncratic that's connected a precise precocious strength aerobic workout program. 

'It doesn't person to beryllium immoderate benignant of surgery. In fact, it would beryllium improbable due to the fact that astir radical don't privation that gaunt of a look.' 

By contrast, Dr Tijion Esho, cosmetic surgeon and laminitis of Cultskin successful the UK, told DailyMail.com Brady's tegument looked 'stretched and lifted.'

He added: 'This is typically seen aft a afloat look assistance which is inactive successful the process of healing.' 

A look lift, besides called a rhytidectomy, involves pulling backmost a flap of tegument connected each broadside of the look to trim sagging and tighten skin. 

There are respective types of look lifts, but a accepted 1 involves separating tegument from its underlying tissues and tightening the muscles astir the look and neck. The surgeon besides removes excess skin.

The process mostly takes astir 3 to six hours, according to the Mayo Clinic. 

About 131,000 Americans get a look assistance each year. It runs astir $11,000 but tin spell up to $30,000.

Dr Esho suggested if Brady had a look lift, it was apt performed precocious past year. 

He said: 'In the aboriginal stages [of recovery], the tegument looks precise tight, and arsenic the tegument hels, the hostility eases, which typically is seen implicit the archetypal 2 to 3 months.' 

Dr Norman Rowe, a integrative surgeon astatine Rowe Plastic Surgery successful New Jersey, told DailyMail.com that Brady shows 'tell-tale' signs of having a look lift, specified arsenic a imaginable incision scar adjacent his ear.

He specially speculates Brady had a superficial musculoaponeurotic strategy (SMAS) facelift, which involves making an incision on the hairline, down the ears, and nether the chin and repositioning connective insubstantial nether the skin.

Dr Rowe said: 'That receptor looks similar it's been operated on.' 

'When you bash a SMAS look lift, it sometimes gives a propulsion connected the corners of the mouth, and [patients] get what we telephone a windswept look. In a mates pictures, boy, it looked similar helium had that,' helium added. 

However, helium rejected the thought that Brady's imaginable look assistance was performed precocious owed to a deficiency of swelling and salient scarring. He suggested it whitethorn person been done astatine slightest six months ago. 

Dr Esho besides pointed to Brady's 'shiny' skin, which helium believes could beryllium owed to Botox and laser resurfacing treatments.

Botox uses a toxin to paralyze a musculus beneath the skin, meaning that it doesn't determination and causes wrinkles to deepen successful the skin. 

It mostly lasts 3 to 4 months and costs astir $180 to $750 per session.  

In laser tegument resurfacing, surgeons usage a beam to destruct the outer furniture of tegument and vigor the underlying later.

This is said to stimulate the maturation of collagen, a macromolecule that improves tegument firmness and texture, and leads tegument to go smoother and tighter arsenic it heals and regrows. 

It costs astir $400 to $500 per procedure.

Dr Esho said: 'This would explicate wherefore his tegument appears smooth, with less look lines.' 

Dr Diana Ponsky, a integrative surgeon successful Ohio, agreed that Brady whitethorn person opted for Botox. 

She told DailyMail.com: 'It seems arsenic if his lipline has been altered. He has a stretched smile, and his little articulator curls up more.'

She said this suggests helium whitethorn person had Botox injected into his depressor anguli oris (DAO) muscles, which tally from the little jaw to the corners of the mouth.

Dr Maas told this website Brady whitethorn person had Botox owed to a deficiency of grin lines, oregon lines astatine the country of the eyes erstwhile helium smiles, though it's subtle.

Dr David Shokrian, integrative surgeon astatine Millennial Plastic Surgery successful New York City, told DailyMail.com Brady's 'super smooth' forehead is simply a motion of 'classic Botox.'

Dr Ponsky also speculates that Brady whitethorn person had fillers. 'If you look astatine his temples, it looks similar helium hollowed out, which suggests helium astir apt had fillers,' she said. 

Fillers are soft, gel-like substances that are injected nether the tegument to reconstruct mislaid volume, creaseless retired wrinkles and/or heighten facial contours.

They are mostly made from earthy oregon synthetic substances, the astir communal being hyaluronic acerb — a people occurring substance recovered successful the skin.

Once injected, they mostly past six to 8 months and outgo astir $500 to $1,200 per syringe.

Dr Shokrian said: 'He mightiness person had fillers dissolved, oregon he's mislaid earthy facial fat, which makes his features look leaner and much defined.'  

Dr Maas, however, pushed backmost connected the thought that fillers were involved. He said: 'The gaunt look is similar the antithesis of fillers.

'In a batch of ways, Tom Brady would beryllium a bully campaigner for immoderate facial measurement fillers truthful that helium didn't look truthful gaunt.' 

Dr Maas suggested Brady's property and aggravated fittingness regimen whitethorn person pb to a leaner look implicit time, particularly present that helium has retired and apt not arsenic focused connected bulking up.

He said: 'For a 40-year-old positive idiosyncratic that's successful bully shape, they conscionable get truly gaunt. The look is the archetypal spot to suffer fat, and it's besides the archetypal spot to summation abdominous erstwhile we commencement getting heavier. 

'He doesn't request to beryllium bulked up anymore, truthful he's gone the different way. He's go very, precise thin.'