Jennie Garth revealed she got plastic surgery in her 20s after suffering from 'body image issues.'
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Jennie Garth Opens Up About Plastic Surgery at 24
Jennie Garth revealed she got plastic surgery in her 20s after suffering from 'body image issues.'The actress, now 54, said that she had healthy self-perception...
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The actress, now 54, said that she had healthy self-perception but developed body dysmorphia at some point while playing Kelly Taylor on Beverly Hills, 90210.
She explained that portraying a character whose looks were 'scrutinized' and feeling 'competitive' on set of the '90s hit changed how she looked at herself.
In her new memoir titled I Choose Me: Chasing Joy, Finding Purpose and Embracing Reinvention, Garth opened up about how playing 'spoiled teen vixen' in the hit series led her to seek out a plastic surgeon for a boob job and .
She also discussed the 'messy' feud with the late as she .
'I never imagined that stepping into a character's shoes would start to define how I saw my own reflection,' she wrote.
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Jennie Garth revealed she had plastic surgery at age 24 after starting to suffer from 'body image issues' while starring on Beverly Hills, 90210
She starred on the entire 10-season run of the show from 1990 to 2000; pictured alongside Luke Perry in 1993 still
'When I began playing Kelly Taylor on Beverly Hills, 90210, I hadn't dealt with the body image issues in my real life,' she explained.
Garth continued: 'Those storylines — Kelly dieting, feeling insecure, being praised or scrutinized for her looks — were foreign to me. I approached them as an actress does: with imagination and curiosity.'
In her new memoir titled I Choose Me: Chasing Joy, Finding Purpose and Embracing Reinvention, Garth said she got a boob job and liposuction in the 90s; pictured in September 1991
She said the environment on the set also affected how she looked at herself and 'brought out the competitive side of me'; pictured from left to right in 1990: Tori Spelling, Jennie Garth, Gabrielle Carteris and Shannen Doherty
She later noted that no one she worked with on the show made her feel like she needed to get surgery, and she said she didn't tell them about it — though she acknowledged that people noticed, adding 'that feeling... was addictive'; pictured in 1998 Beverly Hills, 90210 portrait
She said she decided to get surgery for a breast augmentation and liposuction right after her first pregnancy and after seeing other actresses do the same; pictured in December 2023
She later noted that no one she worked with on the show made her feel like she needed to get surgery, and she said she didn't tell them about it — though she acknowledged that people noticed, adding 'that feeling... was addictive.'
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She said '90s beauty standards also affected her; she said a 'healthy, normal body' with 'curves, hips and a butt' went from feeling like 'assets' to 'problems I needed to fix.'
She said that was when she decided to get surgery for a breast augmentation following her first pregnancy and after seeing other actresses do the same.
'They carried themselves with a new kind of energy, a little more self-assuredness,' she wrote. 'I started to believe that this was just what you did at a certain age.'
She also got liposuction on her hips to 'smooth me out' and 'make me smaller.'
'I wanted to disappear into the version of beauty that was being sold to all of us at the same time: small, effortless, waif-like,' she continued.
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'And I thought if I could just carve myself into that image, maybe I'd finally feel like enough.'
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