25 Celebs Who Dissolved Their Facial Fillers

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Dermal fillers have become a popular cosmetic procedure in recent years. While some people still love the look, a surprising number have decided to reverse or stop getting their fillers.
Here are 25 celebs who opened up about dissolving or stopping their fillers:
In a 2025 Instagram post, Courtney Stodden said, "I started getting lip filler at 17. Back then, I truly believed I had to change myself to be accepted — even by me. I didn't give myself the chance to love who I really was. I was chasing perfection, running from insecurity, and hiding behind enhancements. But recently, I made a decision that felt radical: I completely dissolved my lips!!! 👄 they feel small, but real! Aaaand I absolutely love them this way 👀💋🙌 And just now, for the first time, I'm beginning to learn that I am enough. This isn't about rejecting beauty — it's about redefining it on my own terms. I've learned that real confidence isn't in what we add, but in what we choose to embrace. To anyone who feels like they need to change to be enough: you don't. You already are."
Here's a picture of them a year prior:
In her Netflix stand-up comedy special Ellen Degeneres: For Your Approval, Ellen DeGeneres said, "I used to say that I didn't care what other people thought of me. I realize now, looking back, that I said that at the height of my popularity. Hey, if I look older than when you saw me last, it's because I'm older than when you saw me last. And also, I stopped doing Botox and filler...I used to do Botox and filler back when I didn't care what other people thought of me... such a waste of time to worry about what others think of us. Just a waste of energy. We're just guessing, we don't know. It's impossible to guess what people are thinking."
Here's Ellen in 2019:
In 2022, Simon Cowell told the Sun, "There was a stage where I might have gone a bit too far [with fillers]. I saw a picture of me from 'before' the other day and didn't recognize it as me first of all. Eric [my son] was in hysterics. Enough was enough. There is no filler in my face at all now. Zero."
Here's Simon a few years prior:
In 2023, Angela White (aka Blac Chyna) documented the process of getting her lip, cheek, and jawline fillers dissolved on Instagram. "I'm tired of the look, and it's just not flattering. It's not what I look like...I'm ready to get back to Angela."
Here's a picture of her before she dissolved her fillers:
And here she is a full year after dissolving them:
In a 2024 Instagram post, Tallulah Willis said, "I was scared to mention, but I recently got my filler dissolved — after being very emotionally and psychologically wrapped up in what I thought it gave me — I hadn't seen my real bone structure in like six years. Still learning to dial back the futzing and the pokes and sit with myself as I am, which is hard when your brain tells you that yes! more is better!"
Here's a picture of Tallulah in 2023, before she dissolved her fillers:
In a 2021 Instagram post, Amy Schumer said, "I tried getting fillers. Turns out I was already full. Thank God you can dissolve them I looked like [Maleficent]."
Here's Amy a few weeks prior:
In 2023, Ariana Grande told Vogue, "I had a ton of lip filler over the years and Botox. I stopped in 2018 because I felt so — too much. For a long time, beauty was about hiding for me, and now I feel like maybe it's not. I want to see my well-earned cry lines and smile lines. I hope my smile lines get deeper and deeper, and I laugh more and more. Aging can be such a beautiful thing."
Here's Ariana in 2016:
In 2006, Jessica Simpson told Glamour that she had previously tried lip injections. She said, "I had that Restylane stuff. It looked fake to me. I didn't like that. But... it went away in, like, four months. My lips are back to what they were. Thank God!"
Here's Jessica earlier that year:
And here she is more recently:
On a 2016 episode of Kocktails With Khloé, Khloé Kardashian said, "Everyone says I've had my nose done, and I swear I haven't. I don't know if it's Botox or filler, [but] I did one of them, and my whole face went numb, and I could not make [an expression]. I had to dissolve everything...I looked crazy, and I still think the effects are, like, in there."
Khloé said this happened right before her husband at the time, Lamar Odom, was found unresponsive after a four-day bender. She continued, "I was so stressed out that the doctor was like, 'I think it's just that too much was happening to your real emotions.' And my face was so fucked, I had to go and get this whole thing, like, dissolved. It was a bummer because now I'm afraid to do it again, but I swear, I think things are still in my face."
Here's Khloé a few weeks after getting her lip fillers dissolved:
And here's a more recent picture of here:
In July 2018, a fan commented on Kylie Jenner's Instagram that she "looks like the old Kylie." She replied, "I got rid of all my filler."
Here she is a few months before she says she dissolved her lip filler:
However, in October 2018, Kylie confirmed via Instagram that she'd resumed getting lip fillers.
In a 2024 TikTok video, The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice shared the process of getting her lip fillers dissolved before starting over with new filler. She said, "The reason why I'm getting it done is because I see migration on the top of my lip over here." Then, showing how her lips looked several hours after the procedure, she said, "Now I'm ready to start fresh! But I gotta wait, like, a week and a half to two weeks."
Here's a more recent picture of Teresa:
Courteney Cox decided to dissolve her facial fillers in 2017. Two years later, she told People, "[I tried] to keep up with time in a way that was anything other than maintenance. I didn't realize it until one day I kind of stepped back and went, 'Oh shit. I don't look like myself.'...So now I just embrace who I am and getting older with what God gave me, not what I was trying to change." And in 2022, she told the Sunday Times, "There was a time when you go, 'Oh, I'm changing. I'm looking older.' And I tried to chase that [youthfulness] for years. And I didn't realize that, oh shit, I'm actually looking really strange with injections and doing stuff to my face that I would never do now...People would talk about me, I think. There was a period where I went, 'I've got to stop. That's just crazy.'"
Here's Courteney the year before she dissolved her fillers:
In 2024, The Real Housewives of Dubai star Caroline Stanbury told People that she started getting fillers and Botox at 26, but she was no longer happy with how they looked. She said, "I had one crazy eyebrow. My lips had gone a bit weird. My face just [got] rounder and rounder and bigger and bigger, because I just kept pumping filler in my jawline." So, she had it all dissolved. She added, "[I] thought to myself the cost of doing this every year, you know, is a facelift." So, after some consideration, she decided to get a deep plane facelift and have excess skin removed from her eyelids.
Here's Caroline in 2023:
Jeff Lewis (from the Bravo show Flipping Out) decided to dissolve his decades-old lip filler after his dermatologist refused to do any work on him until they "fixed" his lips. During a 2022 appearance on Sirius XM, he said, "What happened was the filler [from] 20 years ago…it migrated into both sides of my upper lip and created, like, two balls. Now, I didn't know it was filler; I thought it might be silicone, I didn't know. Over the years, I haven't liked it, but I thought, 'They're gonna have to cut open my lip and take it out.'"
Here's Jeff in 2019:
In a 2024 Instagram story post, Bhad Bhabie shared that she'd dissolved all the filler in her lips, chin, and cheeks. She wrote, "Stop doing it unless you absolutely need it. It makes you look so much older and blocks you lymphatic draining system causing pillow face! [sic]"
Here she is in 2021, around the time she first opened up about getting fillers:
In her 2017 memoir Unqualified, Anna Faris reportedly wrote, "I started getting lip injections in my upper lip. I did it for a little bit, and I noticed a small difference, but no one else ever said anything. I kept wondering if anybody else even noticed." She said that, eventually, her friends did notice and told her that her lips were starting to look too large, so she decided to "wean" herself off of the fillers.
Here's Anna back in 2007:
In 2017, Melanie Griffith told Porter magazine, "No, I didn't [realize] until people started saying. 'Oh my god, what has she done?!' I was so hurt I went to a different doctor, and he started dissolving all of this shit that this other woman doctor had put in. Hopefully, I look more normal now."
Here she is in 2014:
In a 2023 TikTok video, JoJo said, "A few months ago, maybe three months ago, right before I came to New York, I got my lip filler dissolved because it had started to migrate. Huh? I didn't know it could do that. I thought it was just going to 'metabolize' and dissolve. Like, I thought it was just going to go away over time, you know? No, it got, like, lumpy underneath [my upper lip], and I would run my tongue along it and be like, 'What the fuck is going on?' So anyway, I had my lip filler dissolved, and I'm really glad I did, because even if there's some remnant of something in there, which I don't think that, there is there probably is, I'm very happy with the way it looks because this is, like, the kind of natural...I don't know, I still have small lips, but you know, it's my face. It's me."
Here's JoJo a few months earlier:
In a 2024 Instagram story post, Olivia Culpo revealed that, ahead of her wedding, she got her lip injectables dissolved. She added, "I'm really happy the way they look now. Debating filling again but might just keep like this for the wedding."
Here's a picture of Olivia from earlier in 2024, before she had her lip fillers dissolved:
In a 2019 Instagram post, Yolanda Hadid said, "55 and smiling from the inside out...Finally back to the original 1964. Living in a body free of breast implants, fillers, botox, extensions, and all the bullshit I thought I needed in order to keep up with what society conditioned me to believe what a sexy woman should look like until the toxicity of it all almost killed me..."It took me many years of undoing some bad choices I made for myself before I finally found the freedom to sustainable internal beauty and acceptance of what is the best version of myself by nobody's standards but my own."
Here's Yolanda in 2018:
In 2023, Kristin Davis told the Telegraph, "I have done fillers, and it's been good, and I've done fillers, and it's been bad. I've had to get them dissolved, and I've been ridiculed relentlessly. And I have shed tears about it."
Here's Kristin in 2021:
In a since-deleted 2024 TikTok, an aesthetic physician assistant criticized Lisa Rinna for having "too much filler." Lisa commented, "Skinvive [a dermal filler or gel implant] is not for everyone, and it was not good for me. Luckily we could dissolve it today. Whew." She later told People, "Some things work out, and some things don't. There's so much available to us now, which is so great, such great lasers and whatnot, and I think it's wonderful to see what works for you. And if it doesn't work for you, it doesn't work for you."
Here's Lisa at an event the month before she dissolved her Skinvine:
In a 2022 Instagram story post, Lottie Tomlinson shared that she was dissolving her lip fillers. She said she was "nervous but excited to be more natural."
Here's Lottie a few days before dissolving her lip fillers:
And here she is a few weeks after dissolving them:
And finally, in 2021, Molly-Mae Hague told The Diary of a CEO podcast that she thought she needed fillers to become a successful influencer but later decided to get them dissolved. She said, "By the age of 21, I didn't look like the same person. I literally looked like a different person. When I look back at pictures now, I'm terrified of myself...It was actually only until my sister said to me — she was like, 'We need to sort this out.' It took her to tell me. There was this one pivotal moment where I'd gone, and I'd got loads of filler, and I posted a YouTube video, and I hadn't let the filler sort of settle. And it was really swollen, and a screenshot from that video, it trended on Twitter for weeks. It was horrendous...That was a moment for me as well where was like, 'I think things need to change.'"
As well as getting her fillers dissolved, she removed the composite bonding from her teeth. She said, "I just stripped myself back, and weirdly, I felt the prettiest I'd ever felt once it had all gone. I feel like I'd dropped about five years off my age."
Here's Molly-Mae in 2020, right before she dissolved her lip fillers: