Joy Behar, 83, Says She Hasn't Had a Facelift, but Does Do This to Look Younger (Exclusive)
- - Joy Behar, 83, Says She Hasn't Had a Facelift, but Does Do This to Look Younger (Exclusive)
Gillian TellingFebruary 11, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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Joy Behar attends the "Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything" premiere during the 2025 Tribeca Festival at SVA Theater on June 12, 2025
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Joy Behar says people always assume she's had a facelift at 83, but she says she hasn't
She says that it's just good genes — plus this one little non-invasive treatment
She recalls having friends who got addicted to plastic surgery in the '80s
At 83, Joy Behar says she's just saying no to a facelift, even though she says people always assume she's had one.
"People think I had a facelift. I did not have a facelift," she tells PEOPLE. However, she has no problem with less-invasive tweaks. "Basically, I just get Botox and filler," she says.
She notes that she's often mistaken for younger. "I happen to have good skin. I inherited that from my mother. I don't really have a lot of wrinkles. And I'm lucky that I have a lot of hair. I do have a lot of hair; I never lost it."
As for her high cheekbones? She says they're attainable!
"You just have to get Restylane for that. Anybody can have high cheekbones. Because it's fat or collagen or whatever the hell they put in there. It's not really bones," she says. "The filler is actually way better than the Botox. The Botox, I don't know what that does. It freezes lines on your forehead, I guess."
Behar says that she recalls plastic surgery back in the old days, which scared her away from going under the knife.
Joy Behar looking just as good in 2007 as she does now
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"I have one friend who got a facelift when she was 30, and she wanted to be prettier. I never heard of such a thing at the time. But remember the work in the '80s, you looked so strange. But I knew a lot of women who were addicted to plastic surgery."
The comedienne recently told PEOPLE that she became addicted to stand-up comedy instead, but first, she needed to get out of her first marriage.
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"I wouldn't have tried stand-up if I'd stayed married, and I'll tell you why," she recently said of her divorce from Joe Behar.
"Stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. It's very, very difficult. I'm not saying brain surgery is easy, but I'd rather do brain surgery than face a bunch of drunks from New Jersey and 2 a.m., because that's what I had to do in the beginning!"
She added, "I'd stay out late and hope to get a spot at the Improv or Catch a Rising Star, and crowds would be sparse, and you'd be bombing up there. But sometimes it worked. And that's what kept you hooked."
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