Kathie Lee Gifford plastic surgery denials ring hollow

Larry Rosenthal is a top NYC cosmetic dentist who specializes in applying expensive veneers (like $17,000 for a set of choppers) to give you a nice, fake smile.  According to Rosenthal, Kathie Gifford Lee was a client.  So, this got us thinking, what else has Kathy Lee modified?

Ran across her CNN inteview with Larry King in which she skirts around saying whether she definitively has not undergone plastic surgery (excerpt from the interview is below). 

I'll leave it to you to decide if she's undergone the plastic surgeon's knife.  Here's her in 2000, followed by images in 2005. 

Provide us with your comments!

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Interview with Larry King:

KING: I want to take care of one other thing in our remaining moments, because I saw the headline. So you wanted to have plastic surgery and Frank stopped you.

GIFFORD: Oh, please. No, more plastic surgery. That's what's wrong about that one.

KING: You've not had plastic surgery.

GIFFORD: No, I mean, you know...

KING: That's you.

GIFFORD: This is me. And I keep putting it off as long as I can.

KING: Because you're chicken.

GIFFORD: Oh, totally. Oh, yes.

KING: They're going to cut open your face and move your skin. A lot of laughs.

GIFFORD: You know, I'm going to go kicking and screaming before I get to the surgeons.

KING: So where did that come from? You have no idea?

GIFFORD: I talked about it. I would talk about it. Say, you believe -- look at this face. And it'd be one of those mornings, and I'd say, it's time, it's time for a little lift.

KING: And Frank wouldn't let you? It was...

GIFFORD: You know what? Frank can't keep me from anything. Obviously, I'm a grown woman, I can do what I want to do. But he -- he doesn't want me to. We've seen so many bad...

KING: The story was that you wanted to and he didn't want you to.

GIFFORD: But I wanted more. Last year, it was that I was leaving the show or something like that because I was going to have a million dollars worth of plastic surgery. Now, that hurt, you know. Do I need a million dollars worth?

KING: So you've never had and you don't intend to have it.

GIFFORD: I don't intend to do it.

KING: But you would have if you felt you needed to?

GIFFORD: You know what, yes, I probably would. You know what, just to feel -- I probably would. But I haven't done, you know, anything that I'm ashamed of, and I'm certainly not going to be ashamed of it if I have it down.

Comments

Kathy Lee Gifford has definitely had plastic surgery. Recently, in her role as a "reporter" for Inside -- or whatever tabloid TV show she works for, she looks like a completely different person.

It's quite horrifying -- that she pretends she hasn't had anything done makes it even more horrifying.

[Terri]

Don't know if Kathi Lee has or hasn't had surgery. She has the money and if she wants it, it's her business, no one elses.

[bill]

ok, but are her tits fake?

[a viewer]

JUST SAW KATHIE LEE {SEPT>2007} ON REGIS ANNIVERSARY SHOW>SHE DEFINITELY HAD PLASTIC SURGERY

[MM]

Kathy Lee looks more like KoJo these days. Besides the face lift she is so shot up with botox it looks like a mask. Maybe some lypo too. She is always in something skin tight.

[Sherry]

Believe she has has "something" done. It's not bad, tho..just different.

[eric]

Of course she had work done. Her eyes at the very least. Just add her to the list of talentless plastic people in this country.

[Mary Seiler]

Kathie Lee looked like a plastic faced Barbie on O'Reilly Show on January 10. How can she look younger now than she did 7 years ago. She always looked great and I loved her on Regis. Still would like to see her back.

[emmarose]

of course she has. her boobs are huge now and disproportionate to her tiny body. it looks weird. i don't think she's had a full face lift cause put she's had some slight tucks and definitely botox. i don't think she looks bad but not as good as she did in the late 80's. she should remove the implants because she did have breasts before anyway and stop crimping her hair. but any work on her face she has had done looks good. we're not in melanie griffith/faye dunaway disaster territory yet.

Who cares?