Amidst backlash from fans about her looks, Bette Midler recently spoke about undergoing cosmetic procedures during her acceptance speech at the Costume Designers Guild Awards on Monday night. The 77-year-old revealed to Page Six while accepting the Distinguished Collaborator Award for her decades of support of the costume design industry that she had some work done.
“Time has a way of smoothing everything out I’ve been at it for close to 60 years…” Midler told the news outlet, “and I do look fabulous, I know. I’ve had some tailoring done on my face.”
Bette Midler had previously revealed that she had earlier contemplated plastic surgery
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Bette Midler at the 86th Annual Academy Awards (Oscars).
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Also, most plastic surgery experts have previously speculated that Midler had done a face job and also received both botox injections and facial fillers. However, the 77-year-old has always declined to comment on the subject but she revealed to Extra in 2008 that she had considered getting plastic surgery.
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“Doesn’t everybody consider it?” Midler told the news outlet at the time. “When it really starts to cave in, I probably will start to give it a real good think.”
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Michael Kaplan said that Bette Midler once had her identity mistaken
Micheal Kaplan, a designer, and friend to the actress who presented her the award at the event disclosed that Midler once got her identity mistaken when they both shopped at a Sears department store in Los Angeles.
“When I returned, they were mistaking her for a clerk, customers were lining up [saying], Miss, I have three dresses to try on,” he said. “Was she peeved? Not in the slightest. She replied, “Dressing room number three is free hun.”‘