Kris Jenner at 70 Steps Out Looking Refreshed After Her $100,000 Facelift
Kris Jenner has never been shy about her relationship with cosmetic procedures, and her latest public appearance only added more fuel to an already lively conversation. The 70-year-old momager was spotted enjoying an evening out during singer Katharine McPhee’s tour, turning heads not only with a fresh short bob hairstyle but with a complexion that had people talking. She looked notably refreshed, and observers were quick to connect the dots to her widely reported $100,000 facelift. It was the kind of entrance that reminded everyone why Jenner rarely fades into the background.
The facelift in question was not exactly breaking news when she stepped out, as Jenner had already confirmed the procedure earlier this year with characteristic candor. She explained that it had simply been time for an update, noting that her previous facelift had taken place roughly fifteen years ago. “Face-lifting am I had before about 15 years ago and now it was time for a new one. I want to be the best version of myself and that makes me happy,” she said in an interview. For Jenner, the decision was rooted in personal satisfaction rather than any external pressure, and she made no apologies for it.
She has long framed cosmetic work as an extension of her personal philosophy around aging on her own terms. “You have to do what makes you feel good. Not for others, but for yourself,” she said back in 2015, a sentiment she has returned to repeatedly over the years. More recently, she addressed the broader conversation around aging with the same directness. “Just because you’re getting older doesn’t mean you have to give up on yourself. If you want to age naturally, that’s fine. But for me, this is graceful aging. It’s my choice,” she said. That framing has defined her public stance for years and continued to do so with this latest round of headlines.
The surgeon behind the procedure was Dr. Steven M. Levine, a well-known name in plastic surgery circles. Jenner revealed a particularly charming detail about their working arrangement: the two had agreed on a secret password that anyone claiming to be her friend would need to provide when calling to book an appointment. “He didn’t want a lot of attention, which I liked. He said that everyone who references me has to know the password,” she shared. She added with some amusement that after the news broke, the doctor’s phone was flooded with calls from people insisting they were close personal friends of hers.
While her face drew plenty of attention, a separate thread of commentary emerged online around her hands. Speculation about whether Jenner has had work done on her hands has circulated for years, dating back to a 2016 Instagram post in which her hand appeared wrapped in bandages. Her team at the time maintained that the procedure was medically necessary, though many remained skeptical given her openness about other cosmetic work. The debate resurfaced when fans noticed she was appearing publicly again without gloves. A Reddit thread titled “Hands Don’t Lie” reignited the chatter, with one user dryly commenting, “One would think she’d have sorted her hands out while she was already getting surgery,” while another joked that she might soon launch a luxury glove line for older women.
This facelift is the latest in a long list of procedures Jenner has discussed over the years, including Botox, breast augmentation, earlobe reduction, and a hip operation in 2022. She has approached each with the same matter-of-fact openness that has come to define her public persona. In one memorable episode of ‘The Kardashians,’ she quipped that her nose might be the only part of her face that had remained untouched. That kind of self-aware humor has helped keep her audience firmly on her side through each new headline.
The modern facelift, technically called a rhytidectomy, typically takes between two and five hours and results in swelling that can last several months, meaning the final results often aren’t fully visible until about a year after surgery. Hand rejuvenation is actually one of the fastest-growing areas of cosmetic medicine, with procedures ranging from filler injections to fat grafting, and surgeons often note that hands can be one of the most revealing indicators of age precisely because they’re almost always visible. Katharine McPhee, whose tour gave Jenner a reason to step out that evening, is married to music producer David Foster, who is 35 years her senior and happens to be a longtime friend of the Jenner-Kardashian family orbit.
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