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Heidi Montag's brow lift

In 2010, Heidi Montag 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

“I look way better and I'm way happier ... my eyebrow lift just took my face to another level, made it a little bit more European-exotic”
Heidi Montag · People, January 2010, as quoted by TODAY (Access Hollywood), 2010-01-13

Context

The Hills cast member had 10 procedures in one day on 2009-11-20, including a mini brow lift and fat injections in her cheeks, nasolabial folds and lips, and disclosed them to People in January 2010. After Dr. Frank Ryan died in August 2010 she wrote on Twitter that he was "the most brilliant talented surgeon who will ever exist."

Sources

  1. People, January 2010, as quoted by TODAY (Access Hollywood), 2010-01-13 (today.com)
  2. Boston Herald, 2010-01-14 (same People quote) (bostonherald.com)

Both pages read 2026-10-06.

The procedure

Brow lift

In Heidi Montag's words: “Eyebrow lift (mini 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

The surgeon

Heidi Montag named the surgeon: foxnews.com.

Named by the patient

Dr. Frank Ryan

Not in the facelift.studio surgeon list on 2026-10-07.

Other patients on record

Every surgeon the patients named

Others on record for the same procedure

Most procedures in common first, then the newest statement.

PersonIn commonYear
Amy Kaplan
“What motivated me to get a facelift was that I still feel like I'm 30 inside.”
Brow 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
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
Billie Lee
“For my facial feminization, I had a nose job, a lip lift, a brow lift ... and he took fat from my stomach and…”
Brow lift 2019
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
Vince Neil
“They did a lot of things ... Brow-lift, upper-lower eyes, partial face-lift, cheek implants, nose job,…”
Brow lift 2004
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 Heidi Montag have a brow lift?

By Heidi Montag's own account, yes. The statement is in People, January 2010, as quoted by TODAY (Access Hollywood), 2010-01-13, and bostonherald.com reported it.

What did Heidi Montag have done?

In Heidi Montag's words: “Eyebrow lift (mini brow lift)”. Sorted into the procedure library as brow lift.

Who was Heidi Montag's surgeon?

Heidi Montag named Dr. Frank Ryan.

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.