“But there was nothing I could do, I couldn’t go at that point,” Simmons said, adding that she also took out her hair extensions. “When you have a face lift, you have your hair out and everything. I mean I didn’t even look like myself, I looked like a monster for a while.”
Simmons got her face lift to celebrate a life milestone — her 50th birthday.
D’Andra Simmons and Andy Cohen.Greg Endries/Bravo
“I did that because when I turned 50, I think everyone needs to decide what they want to do with their body and their lives,” she said.
“Of course my mother has had a few … you know she’s had a little bit of work done over the years,” Simmons said. “She always said ‘you wanna do it, better to do it earlier than too late, because then people can notice. You just wanna wake up like you look refreshed.’ ”
D’Andra Simmons.
In the months since her procedure, Simmons has dropped 15 lbs. “I stopped eating the junk. Just back away from the donuts and the table!”
Simmons, who has a skin care line, “Hard Night Good Morning,” toldReality Checkshe wasn’t concerned that her plastic surgery would cause people to question the effectiveness of her products.
“No because it doesn’t matter what kind of skincare you use, you can’t solve gravity,” she said. “Gravity happens to everyone unfortunately. And when I went to my doctor, he was saying to me, ‘I can’t believe your skin is so amazing. What do you use on your skin?’ I said, ‘Well, my skincare line; I’ve been using it for over 20 years. And my mother’s before mine.’ And he said, ‘This will be so easy because your skin is in such great shape. And you’re going to bounce back really well and you’re going to look fantastic.’ ”
“So yeah, I still did it because I want to do what I want to do for the way I look and feel good about myself,” she said. “But like I said, gravity — your boobs fall, your face falls, your butt falls — everything falls!”
source: people.com
