has admitted that a trendy cosmetic treatment left her looking 'freakish' during a 'humiliating' red carpet appearance.
Writing about the ordeal in her memoir You Better Believe I'm Gonna Talk About It, the actress, 62, said that she was enticed to try out the injectable 'skin booster' SKINVIVE by an esthetician shortly before attending the 2024 Fashion Trust Awards in Beverly Hills.
'I went to somebody to get some and the esthetician said to me, "I have this SKINVIVE, it's brand new – you're gonna love it! You put it on your face and it will act like it doesn't add any volume, it just gives you a glow."
'And of course I was like, "Do it!" So she does it right around my cheeks, not my whole face. And whether I was allergic or what, all of a sudden my cheeks were like a squirrel gathering nuts,' Rinna continued.
On top of that, Rinna said that she'd recently had Botox injected into her jaw to help her TMJ.
'Well, the combination of the Botox making my jawline atrophy, and SKINVIVE giving me volume, made me look freakish,' she confessed.
Lisa Rinna has admitted that a trendy cosmetic treatment left her looking 'freakish' during a 'humiliating' red carpet appearance in 2024
The 62-year-old's cheeks became extremely swollen after she tried an injectable skin booster before attending the 2024 Fashion Trust Awards
When it came time for Rinna to walk the red carpet at the Fashion Trust Awards, she said that the photographers snapped photos of her swollen face – and they soon went viral online.
'Everybody put my picture up because my face did look different,' she said.
'Beauty influencers put up my before and after pictures and tore me apart,' she added.
Rinna went to her dermatologist 'immediately' and had the SKINVIVE reversed and her face went back to normal within days, but she admitted that the whole debacle was 'traumatizing'.
'Everyone was so mean about it. I was all over TikTok and all over every f***ing doctor's site,' she said.
'Oh my god. It was really humiliating because I knew that it looked terrible,' she continued.
'Fortunately, I'm an old battle axe at this point and I can take it.'
Although SKINVIVE didn't work out for Rinna, her supermodel daughter is a huge fan of the treatment.
The actress and reality star looked more natural during a 2013 appearance on the Today show
'Oh my god. It was really humiliating because I knew that it looked terrible,' she said of her plump visage
'I’m doing this thing right now called SkinVive, which is a moisturizer injection, not a filler,' Amelia Gray Hamlin told Variety earlier this year.
The 24-year-old insisted that she's never had filler, stating, 'I've always had these lips.'
Despite her one bad experience with injectables, Rinna insists that she's mostly had 'really good work' done.
'The best work is when no one can tell that you've had anything done,' she stressed.
She then praised the new era of 'undetectable' cosmetic surgery that's currently sweeping Hollywood.
A number of Los Angeles A-listers have turned to subtle cosmetic tweaks in recent years, including Pamela Anderson and Kris Jenner.
Rinna is pictured in the '90s during her time on Days of Our Lives
Board-certified Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Deepak Dugar is one of the leaders in the new undetectable movement, dubbing it 'quiet-luxury beauty'.
'The biggest aesthetic shift heading into 2026 is restraint. We're seeing a clear move away from exaggerated, obviously "done" procedures like overfilled lips, extreme BBLs, and anything that announces itself across the room,' he told the Daily Mail.
'The new celebrity aesthetic is about refinement, balance, and looking undetectably better, rather than dramatically different,' added Dr. Dugar, who is famed for his signature 'Scarless Nose' rhinoplasty procedure.
'In 2026, the goal is what I call "quiet-luxury beauty". Faces that look rested, elegant, and genetically blessed — not injected.'
