Khanyi Mbau has gone under the knife again, this time to have work done on her face to give it more structure and tightness.
Never one to bite her tongue about how much work she has done on her body, the actor said she grew tired of Botox and fillers every three months and was looking for a permanent solution.
Mbau took to her Instagram account on Wednesday night to share a video of the procedure she had done called blepharoplasty.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, the procedure reduces bagginess from the lower eyelids and removes excess skin from the upper eyelids. As skin ages, it gradually loses its elasticity.
“Now we bake, and we bought a new face. I know, I know. Before we all lose it, it’s still very fresh and super tight. It will take a few weeks for it to cook.”
“I had a blepharoplasty reducing the heavy skin on my eyelids and subnasal lip lift, adding shape to my lips. Goodbye, fillers, Botox and threads,” she captioned the viral video.
Mbau said she couldn’t wait to see the final results: “It’s still going to get worse before it gets better. Big shout to Mert, my personal nurse. You made this experience so comfortable. Now I live in this face bra as I wait for it to cook.”
Mbau has lots of ‘work’ done on her body. In 2017, she opened up about her liposuction and shared a video of herself taking her fans into the operating room during a cosmetic procedure.
“I went under the knife to get summer ready so that I can look better for the next season and all the shows I’ll be doing over summer,” she said in the video clip.
She saw Dr Mark Steinmann (who has worked on her before) for a breast revision and liposuction.
In 2019, she sat down for an interview with Thembekile Mrototo on eNCA to discuss skin lightening.
She admitted that 90% of her complexion was “cosmetic,” saying she preferred it because she used less makeup and, as a result, required less “maintenance.”
Cosmetic surgeries are no longer taboo in Celebville; no one goes under the knife in secret like back in the day; A-listers let their fans see as they transform their bodies with cosmetic surgeries.
Reality TV star Jojo Robinson has been vocal about the extent of her cosmetic surgeries in an interview with East Coast Radio’s Carol Ofori, revealing that the surgeries have cost her more than R800 000.
Speaking to Ofori about her cosmetic surgery procedures, Robinson said she had undergone “maybe 20 plus” surgeries altogether.
“I’ve been very open on my Insta [and] my socials about everything that I’ve done because I feel like a lot of women find it’s shameful, in a way,” she said.
“Like they don’t want people to know that they’ve had this procedure done, and to me, I’m like if there’s something available that we can do that can make you feel better, then go for it. It doesn’t have to be for anyone else; it can be for yourself.”