8 Celebrities Who Regret Or Reversed Their Cosmetic Surgery

6. Nicki Minaj, 42

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Nicki Minaj has spent time reminiscing on her old self before the surgeries. In 2023, she did a podcast with The Run-Through with Vogue where she reflected on lacking self-love. 

“I guarantee you, if you change anything on your body and do anything surgical and all this, you’re going to — more than likely, not definitely, more than likely — look back one day and say, ‘I was fine just the way I was,” she explained to the podcast hosts. “And that’s what happened to me,” she said. “I could not believe even some of the photos that I didn’t love.”

She said she used to avoid looking at old photos of herself. “I didn’t like being skinny, having a flat butt, you know. Having boobs that didn’t sit high enough. It was a lot of things.”

The mother-of-one has since had a change of heart. “The reason why I wasn’t able to look back at my old photos was I didn’t like the way I looked, right, physically,” Minaj added. “And now I love the way that person looks physically.”

Minaj, being around her mentor Lil Wayne in the early years of her career, was often surrounded by women with big butts. 

In a 2022 interview with Joe Budden, she said, “I kept being around Wayne and them. And at that time, Wayne was always talking about big booties, Wayne would have like a new chick in the studio every session. So it was always a new big booty there.”

Being one of the very few—if not the only woman in the studio with a bunch of men, Minaj said women’s bodies were a focal point of conversation among the men. She said, “All I would hear them talking about is big butts. I didn’t feel complete or good as those girls because I’m like ‘Oh my God, this is what you’re supposed to look like in the rap culture and I don’t look like that.’”