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Even men feel the pressure to stay young-looking, and Simon Cowell certainly fell prey to the procedures. Fortunately he has now had his fillers removed after he felt like he looked "like something out a horror film." 

"There was a stage where I might have gone a bit too far," the 'America's Got Talent' star admitted in an April 9, 2021 interview with The Sun. "I saw a picture of me from 'before' the other day, and didn't recognize it as me first of all." He added that his eight-year-old son Eric was also in "hysterics" after noticing a difference in his face, which pushed him to end the treatments altogether. "Enough was enough," he said. "There is no filler in my face at all now. Zero."

Cowell talked about a period in time when "everyone was having their faces pumped full of this and the other," explaining that he would go to great lengths in the past to maintain his good looks, and admitting he was a "sucker for reading about something out there and believing it will work." Luckily he has since found more natural and reliable solutions, as he added, "for me now, a lot of it comes down to healthy eating and drinking tons of water."

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In an interview with the UK's Sunday Times, published February 20, Cox recalled a period in her life when she was getting cosmetic treatments to look younger, and they had a slightly different effect. "There was a time when you go, ‘Oh, I'm changing. I'm looking older.' And I tried to chase that [youthfulness] for years," the 'Friends' alum said. "And I didn't realize that, oh s—t, I'm actually looking really strange with injections and doing stuff to my face that I would never do now." The actress added that "people would talk about me, I think," and that "there was a period where I went, 'I've got to stop. That's just crazy.'"

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The actress had previously admitted in 2017 to having her fillers all removed because she was ready to look like herself again. She told People, "You have to accept getting older, and that's something that I had a hard time doing."

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Cox said the way it got out of hand is that a doctor would often suggest "a little injection here or filler there," and that would snowball to more and more procedures.

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Ashley Tisdale -

Ashley Tisdale revealed that she had her breast implants removed in 2019 after years of having them. She wrote on Instagram: "I constantly felt my body was less than, and thought this change would make me feel more whole and more secure about myself. And for a short period of time…it did. But little by little I began struggling with minor health issues that just were not adding up—food sensitivities as well as gut issues...that I thought could be caused by my implants. So, last winter I decided to undergo implant removal." She added: "This journey has been one of growth, self discovery, self acceptance and most importantly self-love."

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Chrissy Teigen -

The star got her breast implants removed. She explained on Instagram: "They've been great to me for many years but I'm just over it. I'd like to be able to zip a dress in my size, lazy on my belly with pure comfort!"

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She posted a photo of cards her kids made for her surgery that read, "Have fun pulling your boobies out," and "Bye boobies."

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Sharon Osbourne - In 2011, Osbourne shared that she had her breast implants removed after one started leaking. "One morning, I woke up and one of my boobies was kind of much longer than the other… So I'm thinking, this isn't right," she said.

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She added that she enjoyed not having a "water bed laying on [her] chest anymore."

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Kylie Jenner -

After infamously denying getting lip fillers, the young star decided to get hers removed once she became pregnant with her daughter. Hyaluronic acid lip injections usually last up to a year before your body naturally dissolves the gel, but you can get injected with a kind of enzyme that speeds up the dissolving process.

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Pamela Anderson - The 'Baywatch' star chose to get her implants removed for aesthetic reasons in 1999. "I feel like I'm a petite person, and just having these large breasts was, it just didn't feel right anymore... I just didn't feel like it looked very good," she told ET.

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Pamela Anderson -

Though she said there were no medical issues driving her to get the implants removed, doctors did find a leak in one side during the surgery.

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Stevie Nicks -

After almost 20 years with them, the singer had her implants removed in 1994. She credited them for her feelings of lethargy, and though being diagnosed with Epstein-Barr virus, she maintains that her implants were the source of many of her health problems.

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"Like cocaine, the whole world was getting them back then, and everyone was told they were safe," Nicks told People. "But I'm living proof that they aren't safe."

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Yolanda Hadid - The former model wrote in an Instagram post in 2019 that she's had all her enhancements removed, including her breast implants, which she removed on a 2016 episode of 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' after discovering that the silicone was leaking into her body.

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Victoria Beckham -

After years of denying having breast implants, Posh penned a letter to her 18-year-old self in which she opened up about her body-image struggles and her secret boob job—"A sign of insecurity." As for the fate of the implants, "I don't have them anymore," she told Allure in 2014.

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Tori Spelling -

The actress and mother-of-four revealed in 2011 on 'Good Morning America' that she got breast implants in her early 20s, "and if I had known it would or could possibly impact production of [breast] milk, I would never have had them done." She eventually got them removed.

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Khloe Kardashian -

"[Facial fillers] did not work for me," Kardashian said, according to MTV UK. "I looked crazy, and I still think the effects are in there—I went to have it all dissolved like three times."

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Heather Morris - The 'Glee' actress got breast implants at a young age, but quickly got tired of them. She told Fitness in 2011, "It was hard being active with them, because my chest was always sore. It hurt a lot, and I didn't like always being in pain, so they had to go!"

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Ayesha Curry - The culinary entrepreneur said in an interview that she'd immediately regretted her decision to get breast implants. "It came in the form of me being depressed about my body," Curry said.

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Ayesha Curry -

"The intention was just to have [my breasts] lifted, but I came out with these bigger boobs I didn't want... I got the most botched boob job on the face of the planet." She got her breast implants removed in 2019.

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Lisa Rinna -

The 'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' star got permanent silicone lip implants when she was 24. After about 10 years, the silicone started seeping throughout her lip and creating scar tissue that was "hard and bumpy, like peas." Finally, a doctor removed everything they could in a lip reduction surgery.

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Melissa Gilbert -

The 'Little House on the Prairie' star told Today that she initially got implants because she felt she "wasn't curvy enough." She says removing her breast implants in 2015 was one of the smartest things she's ever done, and she's continuing the natural track by giving up on Botox and dyeing her hair as well.

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Melissa Gilbert -

She cited her husband for helping her become more comfortable with her natural aging, as well as the fact that she would have to get her breast implants replaced when she's in her 80s, as they have a limited lifespan.

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Heidi Montag -

A few years after getting size F breast implants (along with nine other procedures in a single day), 'The Hills' star started experiencing health problems. "They were so heavy they were falling through the skin," Montag told People. "It was just too heavy for my body and I was in pain and uncomfortable all the time." So she got them removed.

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Adrienne Bailon -

During an episode of 'The Real,' the co-host told viewers that she initially got double D breast implants at age 19 because she was insecure about having small breasts, but then the implants gave her more insecurities.

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Adrienne Bailon -

"The insecurity [went from] 'I don't have big breasts' to 'Now everyone is looking at my breasts,' and I was more embarrassed that people knew I was so insecure that I went and got breast implants."

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Tiffany Pollard -

The TV personality went on 'Botched' to discuss her breast implant issues. She described symptoms of diarrhea every morning and dizziness, but says that her symptoms have disappeared since the removal.

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Michelle Visage -

After being diagnosed with Hashimoto's disease, an autoimmune disorder that affects thyroid function, the 'RuPaul's Drag Race' host decided to get her implants out—though the two have not been medically linked.

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Michelle Visage -

After removing them she told People, "I feel strong and healthy and for the first time, I feel like I am doing something to regain and reclaim my life and health. I want to be here for a long time to be with my children, my husband and to see my grandchildren. And my breast implants were certainly impeding my chances of that."

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Crystal Hefner -

The wife of late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner removed her eight-year-old breast implants in 2016 after claiming they caused a myriad of problems including pain in her back, neck, shoulders, and bladder, as well as brain fog, fatigue, and recurring infections.

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Former Playboy model Karen McDougal got breast implants in 1996 to boost her self-esteem. She told People that she started suffering from a poor immune system and thyroid problems, so she got them removed in 2018. She added that she immediately began feeling better after the surgery.

See also: Celebs who have never had plastic surgery

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