Caroline Stanbury Says She Shared Her Facelift Because It's 'Rubbish' When People Deny Cosmetic Procedures

Mar. 15, 2025

‘Real Housewives of Dubai’ star Caroline Stanbury shared her facelift journey.Photo:Sergio Carrallo/Instagram; Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty

Sergio Carrallo/Instagram; Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty

Caroline Stanburywas looking at before-and-after photos of women who had facelifts when she noticed something.

“You get handed books [with pictures of] 80-year-old women that suddenly look 70 or 60. And that’s not me. I couldn’t relate to them,” theReal Housewives of Dubaistar tells PEOPLE.

“I wanted to find someone else my age,” she explained, “who had done it but she wasn’t looking dreadful. She just wanted to look better, right?”

Caroline Stanbury and husband Sergio Carallo.Caroline Stanbury/Instagram

Caroline Stanbury/Instagram

That’s whyStanburydecided todocument her facelift, which she had last November.

Stanbury tells PEOPLE she’d noticed that filler and Botox — which she said she began getting at age 26 — weren’t achieving her desired look, explaining, “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.”

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She had her filler dissolved, and ”thought to myself the cost of doing this every year, you know, is a facelift.”

Once her friend, podcast hostCatt Sadlerhad a faceliftand —”looks unbelievable. She looks just refreshed” — Stanbury knew she would get one as well.

But she didn’t need any convincing to share the procedure with the world.

But beyond that, she says she felt a responsibility to women her age.

“I have a very young husband,” she said ofSergio Carrallo, 29, adding “not that he wanted me to do it, but these are things that women go through.”

“I don’t want women to see me and think at 48, I look like this and they look like s—t. It’s an unnatural thing.”

Sergio Carrallo and Caroline Stanbury pose 16 days after her facelift.Sergio Carrallo/Instagram

Sergio Carrallo/Instagram

The founder of theBust the Labelsupplement line shared that she had a deep plane facelift and had excess eyelid skin removed. She didn’t, however, get her eyes lifted, which she says made a “massive difference” — and relies on Botox for her forehead instead.

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Fans have praised Stanbury for her honesty and candor — and, she says, they always ask her the same question.

Caroline Stanbury shares her facelift scars.Sergio Carallo

Sergio Carallo

“Everybody wants to know how the scars are,” she tells PEOPLE — sharing that these days, they’re doing just fine.

“The one behind your ear is the longest to heal, but [now] it’s just a little red light mark that can be covered with makeup," she says, adding, “the body heals in an incredible way.”

source: people.com