'I didn't wake up like this': AFL WAG and model Rebecca Judd lays bare the beauty treatments she's had done in candid new podcast
The 42-year-old mother of four, who is married to former Carlton and West Coast star Chris Judd, made the frank admission during the first episode of her new beauty podcast Vain-ish, launched with friend Jess Roberts.
"We created this podcast because we want to look good, we want to feel good, and we don't want to be shamed for doing so," Judd told Stellar.
"Beauty standards are so impossible for women right now. It's very topical," she said.
"Everyone has been talking about Lindsay Lohan's face and Anne Hathaway's face and Kris Jenner's face."
Judd said the commentary has become so divided that it's created "two camps" - both of which are "very vocal and angry at each other".
"There's one camp saying, 'They've had work, how vain are they? How superficial, how shallow'," she said.
"And then you've got the other camp saying when women don't get work done and they show signs of ageing, grey hairs, wrinkles and sagging skin, 'She's let herself go, she should go and get some work'.
"Women just can't win."
The model and entrepreneur argued that the time has come for honesty.
"I think 2025 is the year we stop gaslighting women by saying, 'I don't have any wrinkles because I sleep eight hours, wear sunscreen and drink lots of water'.
"You get to a certain age where it's like, come on, let's be a bit more honest. This is the year where we stop bullsh***ing everyone and we 'fess up.
"I'm 42, and I don't have a line on my face. I'm telling you it's not because I get eight hours' sleep a night, all right?"
During the debut episode on Sunday, Judd laid out the full list of what goes into her daily beauty routine.
"There's a hell of a lot of heavy lifting that goes into living," she told listeners.
"I did not wake up like this.
"I've got fake tan on, I've got stick-on underlash lashes on, I've got hair extensions sewn in, I used a prescription lash serum this morning to help my eyelashes grow- but I accidentally stuck it in my eye and then I got pink eye, I've got a fresh set of shellac gel nails, I've had Invisalign trays, I took them out and replaced them with a 15-minute teeth whitening session, I did an infrared sauna this morning, I'm drinking my anti-ageing supplement, after I had a breakfast with superfood porridge with glutamine and collagen supplement smoothie, I plucked out every single visible grey hair that I could find, I used my prescription retinol, I used my hyaluronic HB5, I used my vitamin C serum, I stuck my silicone nipple pads on, I overdrew my lips, I contoured my face, I pulled my hair back in a really tight pony to give myself a non-surgical brow lift and I waltzed on into this studio.
"And that's just today."
Judd also revealed she's undergone a cosmetic procedure involving salmon sperm DNA.
"It's salmon sperm DNA injections around the eye area," she explained.
"I'm quite hollow around my eye area, and I wanted the skin to be a little bit plumper and thicker.
"I never thought I'd ever say, 'I'm going to stick some salmon j*** in my face to look younger', but when you're 42… I'll do anything, and try anything,
she joked.
Elsewhere in the episode, Judd and Roberts spoke with dermal clinician Jayde Taylor about emerging treatments involving "reindeer stem cells" from Japan and even stem cells derived from umbilical cords.
"Our eyes lit up (when we heard this), because we've kept our umbilical cords from our children, which will expire when they turn 18," Judd said, clarifying that they had been properly collected and stored in a scientific facility, not just being kept at home.
"Well, this isn't the first time I've heard about the umbilical cords, so watch this space," Taylor replied.
Judd, whose eldest son Oscar is now 13, quipped that she has "five years to get some really good science" behind the use of umbilical cords.
'I'll bathe in it, put it in a bath, run the hot water," she joked.
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