Recently the actor Denise Richards shared several photos of her bare face that triggered a wave of double takes. In some, her side profile reflects the gentle weathering expected of nearly 55 well-lived years; in others, her face rewinds to how it looked during her Bond-girl era. It was as if, as one fan put it, she'd acquired a time machine. But nobody needed to guess how she transformed: She also posted an image from the morning of her facelift. In it, ink markings peppered her features, illustrating exactly where a surgeon would soon cut her skin open. Richards didn't just cop to cosmetic surgery. She shared who did it, how she prepared, what recovery felt like, and'perhaps most surprising'what it looked like, via post-op photos at two days, five days, eight days, 10 days, and 3.5 weeks: A bandage swaddled the former model's face in one, and purple bruises bloomed atop her cheeks; a handful of tiny, stitched scalpel cuts on the corners of her mouth and eyelids still looked fresh....
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