Tuesday, January 27, 2009

What's happened to Chelsea, lately?

Chelsea Handler is one of my favorite funny ladies, but I'm suspecting that she's had a little work done to her face. On a recent episode of Chelsea Lately, she was sporting a black eye, and even made a joke about it. Since then, I've noticed a difference in her appearance. It looks as though she might have had some filler injected in her cheek bones (or maybe even some cheek bone implants). I'm not opposed to cosmetic procedures or plastic surgery, but we definitely don't want our lovely Chelsea looking like she's had two Tupperware lids jammed into her face.

I've searched the web for any photos or news on this, but only found one Chelsea fan site that mentioned her black eye. Anybody else notice this?

53 comments:

  1. Lauren, I saw Chelsea's show last night and I didn't think she looked like she had work done.
    You may be a better judge of this as I don't watch the show that often due to the late hour, but I thought her make-up looked better and the bangs softened her look.
    What was her reason for the black eye?

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  2. I've noticed that too. I had not watched the show in awhile and then I started again and I'm like what the f*ck happened to her face, her cheeks look swollen and or higher cheekbones- she looks older somehow- Dont know what it is, but she was sexier before whatever happened.

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  3. I think she looked better before she had whatever it is that she had done!!!!!

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  4. Thank god finally someone noticeddd, ugh I thought I was the only one. At first I thought, "who evers doing her makeup should be fired", but then I started noticing it wasnt. Her cheeks look so hollowed out and her cheek bones are noticibly higher. It looks like she aged 20 years., and she always looks mad or something

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  5. I was looking on the internet trying to figure out what happened to her. I liked her look before whatever it was that she had done. She looks really different.

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  6. The girl you see during the theme song looks much different than she does now. I think if she updated that it wouldn't be so glaring.

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  7. Am watching right now and had to google this topic! She defintely looks different and not better. That's sad that Hollywood got to her pretty face.

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  8. She was soooo pretty before and now she has this expressionless odd flat appearance. The plastic surgery was a Big mistake Chelsea. Too bad

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  9. Glad to see I'm not the only one so alarmed by this that I Googled it!!!!
    Cheeeel-sea, we loved ya' babe...why did you go and change?
    Aw man, why ca't Hollyweird leave the older chicks alone!!!
    Looks like typical "work" to me...I live in LA, hubby in the biz, and unfortunately A LOT of women get stuff done here. Always can tell, always looks bizarre, so I just don't get it.

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  10. OMG! She looks terrible! I just saw a new season show and I couldn't stop staring at her fake surgical face. I loved her the way she was. I, like many other people had to Google it too to make sure it wasn't just me thinking this. Chelsea if your reading this... please stop the botox or whatever it is, we miss you. I'm sorry, but I cant follow your show anymore because I'm too distracted. You were always a person that stood up to being yourself. Now you just look soo fake.

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  11. Wow, it's hard to watch her now.

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  12. She looks like a skeleton...is it weight loss? her face looks so hollow and pale. She used to look so bright and youthful... now she looks like a corpse.

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  13. I hate to say it, but she looks way worse now. I used to think she was hot to trot, and now I can't stop looking at her face. It keeps me from thinking she's funny (which I do...or did). I'm guessing it was a ton of botox into the forehead and cheeks...hopefully it fades. Her hilarious expresions are muted now.

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  14. My husband and I watched Chelsea tonight for the first time in a while and couldn't stop wondering what the heck was up with her face. She looks like she is sick or something. I agree with the botox but she needs to use a self tanner or hire a better makeup artist.

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  15. First I thought it was her hair style...Maybe it could be due to her heavy drinking that she candidly admits too?

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  16. I hadn't seen her show in about 6 months; when I watched it 2 weeks ago, I immediately thought how terrible she looked. Her eyes look so small now & her complexion is blotchy & ghostly. My husband watched 2 nites ago w/ me & immediately said - what happened to her, she looks like she got burned with acid! I agree - Get a refund Chelsea!!!

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  17. WOW me and my wife noticed right away. It's amazing how she now looks like a crack head now. She looks like a recovering drug addict. Man she messed her self up fast. Stay away from the knife....Think twice before you slice, Chelsea!

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  18. Wow, this is crazy! I watched the show a couple of nights ago and then tonight. I actually thought I was going to crazy because I noticed immediately that Chelsea looked sick. If she did go under the knife--why can she use a better make up and hair stylist? Chelsea please add some hair extensions and some make up. You used to look hot but now you look like you are sick.

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  19. My oh my... As Chelsea would say it "Is it a skull header"?? I don't know what to say, but I have liked her and I still think she's just as cute and funny! I heard some rumors of cancer but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the cheek thing is not so surprisingly symmetrrical. I think that Chelsea may have (unfortunately) consulted with Joan Rivers about her Plastic Surgeon. God help her(lately)!

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  20. That last one was from me...maryasu@hotmail.com

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  21. first time commenting on this blog - but i was just channel surfing and saw chelsea and thought she looked like a crackhead. that last few nights i saw her she looked either drunk, hung-over, or just totally out of it. dresses like a slob and tonight her hair looks flat and dirty. she was interviewing antonio - by the way - who can believe the LAME chicks he had to choose from! i have never watched an entire episode of chelsea 'cuz she's just too out there for me - but everyone on here is right, she looks like crap. my first thought was NOT plastic surgery but drugs.

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  22. I'm sad to say I agree with those of you who say she looks awful. She went from beautiful to looking like a totally different person.
    wha happened?????

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  23. I agree! I was channel surfing and saw her tonight and said to my husband, "Why is she on with no makeup?" Then I realized she did have on makeup, but it looks like she has had a face peel, which has removed her freckles and has lightened her skin too much. I remember her always looking tanned and outdoorsy, previously. (I haven't seen her in a while.)And, she appeared to be wearing foundation that was too light for her complexion, and not blended to include her chest. If she did have a face peel, she should realize that she can still utilize a bronzer and get that sun-kissed look without tanning. It does look like her medium-thick brows have been thinned and possibly lightened. It also looks like she has recently had upper & lower eyelid surgery which took away her heavy upper eyelids which I think were attractive on her. Whatever she did resulted in her eyes looking smaller. Plus, her hair looks much thinner and is styled somewhat old-fashioned. I wonder if she has lost a lot of it or just decided to ditch the hair extensions (if she ever wore them). Either way she doesn't look like herself and we need to get the former sassy Chelsea back!

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  24. She looks like someone did fast forward on a time machine. She looked like a gorgeous woman her age, and now she looks like a 50 year old who has had work done to look 40. Such a shame, and poor her!

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  25. When you sit Jennifer Anston down next to the "new" Chelsea....it REALLY showed how much her face - even teeth! look different. Not different - wierd! She is always so blunt, why doesn't she address what has happened??
    And we thought P.Presley looked bad.

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  26. Too bad she was so beautiful before. She now has that scary bad surgery look. A female Michael Jackson.

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  27. I miss the girl who is in the opening theme. Another sad case of someone getting surgery they don't need and now will have to live with it.

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  28. She mentioned tonight that she did have something done to her face!

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  29. I am watching Chelsea Lately in Ireland and over the last few nights I definitely noticed a major change in Chelsea's appearance. Chelsea always looked so natural and youthful. Lately her cheeks look very swollen. first of all I thought it was botox. But its much more than botox.. Chelsea didnt need any work done. I never thought Chelsea would succumb to the Hollywood spell. Pity....

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  30. I had to google to see if I was the only one who thought this- havent watched her in sometime, but she looks so different. Compared to the previos Chelsea she looks like an older version or cousin. Hopefully what ever was done falls into place and she ends up "lokkig refreshed" not "over worked".

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  31. Me too.
    She looks like shit.
    Too bad.
    Can't take that stuff back.

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  32. as i watched opening of her show, i noticed her bulging cheeks, and though i am a fan of Chelsea, i hate her new cheek look! whatever it is, implants, botox whatevaaaa it looks bad. I'm sorry u fell prey to the choppers......but i love u Chels.. however.. I cannot believe she is younger than 38.

    Natural beauty is best.

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  33. i can't believe they let her go on television like that. someone she be a friend and help her out. word.

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  34. I just turned on Chelsea Lately tonight and that's how I ended up on this blog - searching for any information on what has happened to her face? She was so pretty before. Hopefully this will pass for her?

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  35. Same here... she looks like a "resurrected version of Chelsea" dear loaaard! I've missed quite a few shows...and the first time I saw her I thought she was rushed to do the show and forgot her makeup, and again tonight,..its just soooo painful to look at her. Yikes.
    She was always so critical of others who has used botox or plastic surgery,.this surgeon needs his licensed pulled. yuck!

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  36. I thought the same thing!!!! During a recent episode she said something about having something done to her face & then got bleeped a few times after that announcement.. not sure if she was divulging or what. Looks like she had a chemical peel and eye lid lift. Not liking it!!

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  37. I had to google this as well. I thought I was imagining it. Chelsea looks horrible and older than ever. Why???? did she do this to herself? She was so lovely and perfect just the way she was.

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  38. Oh man, I have been noticing it the last couple of times. She was so naturally beautiful before. Who ever did this should be named so nobody else goes under their knife.
    And someone should help her tone down the 'look'. It is way too harsh.
    So sad.
    I hope she is OK.

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  39. Am watching Chelsea Lately and immediately noticed something amiss. Same voice but face is completely different. I thought maybe the hair was different but no, it's more than that. Always thought she was attractive but now. . . she looks sick or like she was in a car accident.

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  40. she does look sick. her sunken and skeleton looking face and it looks like she has corpse make-up on. I wonder if she's ill? Some treatements for things like cancer, can really do a number on you. She's also changed from a bright blonde to an ash blonde with brown-ish lowlights....and it's not helping. I hope she's ok....

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  41. as some of you have said, i see now that its NOT just me. i'm not a regualr fan of chelsea's, but i know who she is, and have nothing against her. but passing by her show recently, i wondered who the flat-faced, expression-less older woman was filling in for her......boy was i surprised!! i'm sure its hard for fans to face.

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  42. she is terrible now... a shame as she looked pretty before but now looks like a skeleton

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  43. wow i'm not the only one who is alarmed by her doctored up face.. she's always angry..

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  44. I actually googled "What happened to Chelsea Handler", and WOW! I am obviously not the only one who noticed, I thought I was going crazy! It does not seem like bad plastic surgery, it is a complete lack of makeup. She wears no eye makeup, blush or lipstick. It just looks horrible. Her clothes have changed also. I can not believe what she is wearing tonight. And she also looks like she has gained weight. Just looks bad over all, very strange!

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  45. I used to watch the show regularly but for the past six months or so I catch the show when I can. She isn't looking well and I wondered if she has been ill. Then I realized it's that she doesn't wear makeup, her hair a mess and her clothes are very unstylish;this look is very unbecoming and I hope she gets better style advice soon.

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  46. LOL.......I just had to google "why doesn't Chelsea Handler wear mae-up?" and this sight came up. Bless her heart, she must have been on the Vodka when she made that decision to "fix" her face or whatever

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  47. Wow. I lost cable for 6 months, and when I flipped Chelsea Lately on for the first time again, I thought that she was the guest in the chair at first, not the host! I don't care how hungover she is--she looks so terrible, I can't even watch her show anymore because all I want to do the whole time is shout at her, "Lay off the meth/coke/booze/whatever!" Also, I just keep watching for her to twitch or something so I can pinpoint what happened to her, and I forget to even listen to her jokes. Chelsea, we love you, please go to rehab if that is what you need. You will not find a more supportive crowd than your fans that laugh at every one of your booze jokes. Also, try blush. And mascara. And lipstick. Or SOMETHING that makes your face look alive, because frankly, if you get a wax statue made of you, it will look more realistic and probably like it has more color in the cheeks.

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  48. Wow - just googled "what happened to Chelsea Handler" and found this site. My husband and I are watching the show right now and wondering what went wrong. Hope she's in good health because she's an amazingly talented woman.

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  49. She needs eye makeup

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  50. So I’d like to propose a couple hypotheses about the dramatic (and unfortunate) change in Chelsea’s appearance. Before doing so, I have to say I’m not convinced she had plastic surgery. I would agree that it looks like she had a peel and maybe some botox, but I truly think it’s the considerable lack of make-up that is the reason behind the major difference. Never underestimate the transformative power of make-up – used properly, it can take someone from nice looking to absolutely stunning. Take it away (especially when someone regularly wears it), and it can make someone look stunningly bad.
    OKAY, HYPOTHESIS #1: Maybe she’s so tired of the whole “Fake Hollywood Barbie Doll Overly Done & Glossed Up with Porn Star Eyelashes” look that she decided to sport the anti-Hollywood look.
    HYPOTHESIS #2: Perhaps she’s tired of doing “Chelsea Lately,” but contractual obligations require her to do it. So she’s like, “Fine, I’ll continue doing this intellectually vapid job but my contract doesn’t say I have to look hot. So I’ll show up, say what I’m supposed to say, but don’t expect me to look like I care.” (Note: After reading her books, I think Chelsea’s an extremely intelligent person – so I could see how the content of her show – even though I love watching it from time to time – could become tediously vapid to her. Just a thought.)
    I just thought I’d throw a few more hypotheses out there that don’t relate to surgery or drugs. But who knows – maybe everyone is right. Maybe she went under the knife, got hooked on prescription drugs to deal with the post-op pain, and hates her job only slightly more than all the one-dimensional people in Hollywood. Oh yeah, and maybe she decided to try being a butch lesbian for a while. Just for the hell of it.

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  51. OK, can't speak to the knife work, if any, but I came out here looking to find out what the makeup artist is doing because she has the freshest look in Hollywood. There I said it. Celebs will be copying her at least to change up their style temporarily just like the grunge look comes and goes. She is not without makeup. But whatever she is using--just eyelashes and some hightlight cream? is cutting edge, the Prada of late night!

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  52. Shocking transformation. Chelsea doesn't look like surgery victim but quite the opposite. She has developed serious deep lines on her face, especially around her eyes and cheeks. If she wasn't in Hollywood and just a neighbor lady, I would blame the booze, sleepless nights and rough living in general.

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  53. I've only seen her a few times but something doesn't look right with her face. It's like the top of her face around the forehead and eyes is frozen and the lower half is all dehydrated or something. Eek!

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