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Billie Lee's brow lift

In 2019, Billie Lee spoke on the record about having a brow lift. The quote is verbatim, with its source, followed by what the operation involves and who the surgeon was.

The quote

“For my facial feminization, I had a nose job, a lip lift, a brow lift ... and he took fat from my stomach and put it into my cheekbones.”
Billie Lee · Refinery29, in her own words, 2019-03-25

Context

The Vanderpump Rules cast member described facial feminization surgery she had about 10 years before the 2019 interview. She said it was a five-hour surgery and cost about $30,000.

Sources

  1. Refinery29, in her own words, 2019-03-25 (refinery29.com)
  2. Bravo, 2019-03-26 (same Refinery29 statement) (bravotv.com)

Both pages read 2026-10-06.

The procedures

Brow lift

In Billie Lee's words: “Brow lift”

A brow lift raises low or heavy eyebrows. In the endoscopic method the surgeon works through a few short scalp incisions with a camera, without the ear-to-ear coronal incision, and weakens the frown muscles between the brows (PMID 7972423). It was the most frequent brow lift technique in American Society of Plastic Surgeons member surveys from 2000 and 2020 (PMID 37409963).

Procedure page: Endoscopic brow lift

Cheek lift

In Billie Lee's words: “Fat from stomach into cheekbones”

A midface lift raises the soft tissue of the cheek, including the malar fat pad and the fat under the eye muscle (SOOF), to shorten the lower eyelid and blend the lid-cheek junction (PMID 22936382). Surgeons reach the cheek through the temple, through a lower eyelid incision or as part of a facelift (PMID 11786834).

Procedure page: Midface lift and cheek

Also named: “Nose job”.

The surgeon

Billie Lee named the surgeon: refinery29.com.

#67 of the Top 500

Dr. Ashkan Ghavami, MD

Ghavami Plastic Surgery, Beverly Hills, California.

The link opens the surgeon's dossier: training, practice, facelift work and the score line by line.

Other patients on record

No other person on record named Dr. Ashkan Ghavami.

Every surgeon the patients named

Others on record for the same procedures

Most procedures in common first, then the newest statement.

PersonIn commonYear
Vince Neil
“They did a lot of things ... Brow-lift, upper-lower eyes, partial face-lift, cheek implants, nose job,…”
Brow lift, Cheek lift 2004
Amy Kaplan
“What motivated me to get a facelift was that I still feel like I'm 30 inside.”
Brow lift 2026
Antonia Higham
“I'm 28 years old, and I'm getting a facelift tomorrow in Istanbul.”
Cheek lift 2026
Denise Richards
“I wanted to put things back up, where they were before.”
Brow lift 2026
Galilea Montijo
“No voy a dar el nombre del cirujano. Aunque no quedé contenta, por supuesto, con los resultados”
Brow lift 2026
Katherine Ryan
“The surgery was a facelift. Yes, a full facelift - a little bit of fat transfer to my cheekbone area, and a…”
Cheek lift 2026
Kathy Wakile
“Today I had a neck and lower facelift, along with a brow lift and lower blepharoplasty.”
Brow lift 2026
Kim Joon-ho
“나는 안검하수 수술을 했다 ... 눈썹 지방 제거는 10년 전에 했고, 눈썹 밑 안검하수라고 살짝 댕겼다”
Brow lift 2026
Rachel Lugo
“End of day one after my preservation deep plane face, neck, and brow lift.”
Brow lift 2026
Shekinah Güven
“[The doctor] in Beverly Hills who did my first two is more conservative and specializes in a 'natural look'…”
Brow lift 2026
Tracy Tutor
“[Dr. Diamond] has been with me every step of the way, with my questions, concerns, and crazy ideas”
Brow lift 2026
Ashley Stobart
“I was like, nose job, brow lift, lip flip, face lift.”
Brow lift 2025
Barbara Corcoran
“three facelifts, lower eyelid skin pinch, filler four times a year, brow lift, professional teeth whitening,…”
Brow lift 2025
Darcey Silva
“We ... went [to Turkey] in April for the fox-eye [procedure], so we did the brow lift”
Brow lift 2025
Jorge Javier Vázquez
“El 29 de julio me hice los ojos y luego me he hecho el lifting de la cola de la ceja, que te levantan un poco.”
Brow lift 2025
Kristofer Buckle
“I had a deep plane neck lift, lower face lift, I had a brow lift and an upper bleph. And a chin implant.”
Brow lift 2025
Patsy Field
“fox eye surgery results ... this is only two weeks post op ... Also it's made my brows so straight with a…”
Brow lift 2025
Stacey Silva
“Foxy brow lift checkup time ... This took years off my face and eyes ... I feel more elegant and…”
Brow lift 2025
Tanya Bardsley
“so he did the mid facelift and he just sewed muscles back to where they were, so I had actual cheekbones and…”
Brow lift 2025
Debi Mazar
“So, I get laser. Different ones...one for brown spots (Lutronic LaseMD Ultra), another for redness (Cutera…”
Brow lift 2023
Justin Jedlica
“We decided on a combo surgery to include Deep Plane Neck Lift & Platismaplasty, Deep Plane Facelift, Mid-face…”
Brow lift 2023
Levi Jed Murphy
“The 5 procedures I had done this time round were; facelift, deep temporal brow lift, buccal fat removal,…”
Brow lift 2023
Julia Morris
“The reason why I'm looking so fresh - I don't know if you've noticed, but I fully am - is because I had my…”
Brow lift 2021
Tamra Judge
“I did a lower facelift, where they pull from the neck and the lower jaw. ... So I also got the upper eyelid…”
Brow lift 2017
Chloe Ferry
“I've had my nose done, an eye brow lift and I've had lip and cheek fillers and Botox. I feel much better…”
Brow lift 2016
Janice Dickinson
“Get a mini facelift. ... It kept me going up until last week when I noticed these.”
Brow lift 2014
Heidi Montag
“I look way better and I'm way happier ... my eyebrow lift just took my face to another level, made it a…”
Brow lift 2010
Katsuya Takasu
“I have undergone facial rejuvenation surgery on myself. The procedure was traditional face-lift with SMAS…”
Cheek lift 2001
Joan Kron
“At the end of my fourth consultation, I signed up for a $15,000 facelift and eye lift, and a lip peel.”
Brow lift 1991

Questions

Did Billie Lee have a brow lift?

By Billie Lee's own account, yes. The statement is in Refinery29, in her own words, 2019-03-25, and bravotv.com reported it.

What did Billie Lee have done?

In Billie Lee's words: “Lip lift”, “Brow lift”, “Fat from stomach into cheekbones”, “Nose job” and “Adam's apple shave”. Sorted into the procedure library as brow lift and cheek lift, with a nose or chin procedure also named.

Who was Billie Lee's surgeon?

Billie Lee named Dr. Ashkan Ghavami, MD, #67 in the facelift.studio Top 500.

How was the record checked?

The quote was copied verbatim from the source page, a second outlet was found reporting the same statement, and both pages were checked 2026-10-06. Rumour and comparisons of photographs are not recorded. The rules are in the method.