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Sia's facelift

In 2023, Sia spoke on the record about having a facelift. The quote is verbatim, with its source, followed by what the operation involves and who the surgeon was.

The quote

“I got an amazing facelift from Dr. Talei. He is incredible.”
Sia · Speech at the 5th Daytime Beauty Awards, Los Angeles, 2023-10-01, as quoted by The Hollywood Reporter, 2023-10-05

Context

She named her surgeon while presenting him the Outstanding Achievement in Medicine award at the Daytime Beauty Awards.

Sources

  1. Speech at the 5th Daytime Beauty Awards, Los Angeles, 2023-10-01, as quoted by The Hollywood Reporter, 2023-10-05 (hollywoodreporter.com)
  2. Billboard, 2023-10-02 (billboard.com)

Both pages read 2026-10-06.

The procedure

Facelift

In Sia's words: “Facelift”

A facelift lifts the skin and the SMAS layer of the cheek, jowl and jawline and removes loose skin through incisions around the ear. In a deep-plane facelift the skin, fat and SMAS move as one flap after the ligaments that hold the cheek down are released (PMID 2359803). The method dates to Hamra's 1990 paper and is now the facelift most used by surveyed facial plastic surgeons; head-to-head evidence of longer-lasting results is limited (PMID 41251721, PMID 41100833).

Procedure page: Deep-plane facelift

The surgeon

Sia named the surgeon: hollywoodreporter.com.

#1 of the Top 500

Dr. Benjamin Talei, MD

Beverly Hills Center for Plastic & Laser 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

Every surgeon the patients named

Others on record for the same procedure

Most procedures in common first, then the newest statement.

PersonIn commonYear
Alba Parietti
“L'unico mini lifting l'ho fatto a 60 anni. Naso e zigomi sono gli stessi di quando ero bambina”
Facelift 2026
Alexis Bellino
“9 months, 2 weddings, 1 facelift....yep, it's been a happy, busy stinking year”
Facelift 2026
Aline Campos
“Eu também fiz uma cirurgia, mas dessa vez estética. Há 25 dias fiz um mini lifting no rosto, estou me…”
Facelift 2026
Alli Webb
“Once I passed 50, I somehow was given some sort of permission to go and do this, whereas before I felt like I…”
Facelift 2026
Antonia Higham
“I'm 28 years old, and I'm getting a facelift tomorrow in Istanbul.”
Facelift 2026
Barry Manilow
“I must say: There was one time when we lived in L.A. that I did do a facelift.”
Facelift 2026
Bobby Norris
“I can't really regret having the face lift because this is almost corrective of the abuse I had given myself.”
Facelift 2026
Bunnie Xo
“For everyone asking why I decided to do a facelift, old filler was one of the main reasons”
Facelift 2026
Caroline Stanbury
“This is me three years ago before my facelift at 47”
Facelift 2026
Choi Yang-rak
“팽현숙이 그렇게 했다. 안면 거상 16바늘씩 당기고 눈 쌍꺼풀 수술도 2번 했다.”
Facelift 2026
Danniella Westbrook
“Three more nose operations to go. So we're over half way there now. Facelift has really changed me and given…”
Facelift 2026
Denise Richards
“I wanted to put things back up, where they were before.”
Facelift 2026
Erika Jayne
“Oh, I haven't had that done ... No, I had a lower done.”
Facelift 2026
Gaby Spanic
“Cuando el doctor me abrió para hacerme el lifting me encontró todas esas porquerías, tenía un montón de…”
Facelift 2026
Holly Madison
“I've had a lower facelift on my jawline... I'm really happy I got it done.”
Facelift 2026
Jackée Harry
“When you constantly want something that bad, you've got to do it. And I discovered I wanted it that bad.”
Facelift 2026
Katherine Ryan
“The surgery was a facelift. Yes, a full facelift - a little bit of fat transfer to my cheekbone area, and a…”
Facelift 2026
Kathy Wakile
“Today I had a neck and lower facelift, along with a brow lift and lower blepharoplasty.”
Facelift 2026
Katie Anderson
“3 months post-op and still so glad I did this. A personal choice, for me and only me”
Facelift 2026
Keltie Knight
“Now I can say that facelift is the best thing I ever did even though it was so expensive.”
Facelift 2026
Kiko Matamoros
“Me voy a hacer un lifting facial porque me da la gana”
Facelift 2026
Laura Keller
“Vim fazer um mini lifting ... 2026 vai ser o ano da recauchutagem”
Facelift 2026
Meredith Marks
“Doctor's orders, I had a facelift like a month ago.”
Facelift 2026
Molly Jong-Fast
“A few months later, I was rolled into an operating room for a deep plane face- and neck-lift.”
Facelift 2026
Monique Evans
“Olha, tem sete dias que eu fiz um mini lifting. Olha isso! Estou sem maquiagem nenhuma, ainda inchada, muito…”
Facelift 2026
Nozipho Ntshangase
“What really surprised me was how minimal the swelling and bruising were. Recovery has honestly been much…”
Facelift 2026
Paola Quattrini
“Era una follia, all’epoca ero cretina”
Facelift 2026
Rachel Lugo
“End of day one after my preservation deep plane face, neck, and brow lift.”
Facelift 2026
Rosie O'Donnell
“I went through a full existential feminist crisis, had my face and neck surgically altered, and the result…”
Facelift 2026
Shekinah Güven
“[The doctor] in Beverly Hills who did my first two is more conservative and specializes in a 'natural look'…”
Facelift 2026
Tracy Tutor
“[Dr. Diamond] has been with me every step of the way, with my questions, concerns, and crazy ideas”
Facelift 2026
Yoo Hye-ri
“눈 밑이 울퉁불퉁해 지방 재배치를 하고 안면거상도 했다. 선생님한테 특별히 땡기는 김에 심하게 땡겨 달라고 부탁도 드렸다”
Facelift 2026
Yoon Young-mi
“안면거상 한 번 하는 게 효과는 더 드라마틱하다는 건 알고 있어서 60대 중반 정도에 인생 한번 리셋하는 게 좋지 않을까 싶었다”
Facelift 2026
Amanda Lovett
“I noticed my face and neck were just getting saggier and saggier.”
Facelift 2025
Anne Robinson
“It's why, when I had a facelift, I immediately said that I'd had one ... I've just thrown money at my face.”
Facelift 2025
Ashley Stobart
“I was like, nose job, brow lift, lip flip, face lift.”
Facelift 2025
Barbara Corcoran
“three facelifts, lower eyelid skin pinch, filler four times a year, brow lift, professional teeth whitening,…”
Facelift 2025
Carmen Geiss
“Mir blieb also gar nichts anderes übrig, als das Facelifting machen zu lassen.”
Facelift 2025
Chalene Johnson
“So yes, I had a facelift. And I'm sharing every single detail: the why, what, and the reality, so you can…”
Facelift 2025
Darcey Silva
“We ... went [to Turkey] in April for the fox-eye [procedure], so we did the brow lift”
Facelift 2025
Jacqueline Laurita
“I got a facelift, Neck lift and CO2 laser!”
Facelift 2025
Jojo Robinson
“I wanted to share everything from start to finish. This video shows the reasons I wanted the facelift to the…”
Facelift 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.”
Facelift 2025
Kathy Griffin
“It's my third. I know, that's so vain. I'm so vain for no reason.”
Facelift 2025
Kris Jenner
“I decided to do this facelift because I want to be the best version of myself, and that makes me happy.”
Facelift 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.”
Facelift 2025
Michelle Wood
“I have decided to get a full face lift, forehead lift, upper bleph, lower bleph ... and a lip lift as well as…”
Facelift 2025
Nikocado Avocado (Nicholas Perry)
“It was just this big gobble gobble turkey neck sitting below my face. And that's why I said, 'You know what?…”
Facelift 2025
Rebecca Gayheart
“I didn't want people to think that at 54 you don't have jowls because you do, I just got rid of mine.”
Facelift 2025
Ricki Lake
“Yes, 2 years ago today, I had a face lift. Specifically, for those wondering, I had a deep plane lower face…”
Facelift 2025
Shim Hyung-rae
“This isn't just facial lifting, it's what you'd call a facelift. I'm trying to remodel my face completely.”
Facelift 2025
Stacey Bendet
“I wanted a subtle tightening that would be barely noticeable and very natural.”
Facelift 2025
Stacey Silva
“Foxy brow lift checkup time ... This took years off my face and eyes ... I feel more elegant and…”
Facelift 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…”
Facelift 2025
Ana Quincoces
“Facelift update! ... 2 weeks post-op. So so happy with the results despite the swelling and bruising- it's…”
Facelift 2024
Dawn Ward
“I'm not changing the way I look, I'm just wanting to look like a fresher version of myself. Loads of my…”
Facelift 2024
Jill Zarin
“I'm bravely sharing that I had a lower facelift and a couple other minor tweaks.”
Facelift 2024
Karen Huger
“Absolutely, I did a deep plane [facelift], and I just look like me”
Facelift 2024
Kathy Swarts
“I had a lower face lift which means they just do beneath the cheekbones, and they pulled my neck a little bit”
Facelift 2024
Susan Noles
“I'm a little bit scared. Thank you, Dr. Danyo, I'm on my way”
Facelift 2024
Catt Sadler
“But Dr. Kim, I think his price for the neck lift, the facelift, and the eye job is $30,000 to $40,000.”
Facelift 2023
Emily Simpson
“After a lot of research, and three consultations, I finally decided to use @drsiamakagha.topplasticsurgeon…”
Facelift 2023
Jennifer Fessler
“What am I on? Well, I did have a facelift. I did.”
Facelift 2023
Justin Jedlica
“We decided on a combo surgery to include Deep Plane Neck Lift & Platismaplasty, Deep Plane Facelift, Mid-face…”
Facelift 2023
Levi Jed Murphy
“The 5 procedures I had done this time round were; facelift, deep temporal brow lift, buccal fat removal,…”
Facelift 2023
Gary Numan
“I've lost count of facelifts! ... I've had two I think so none of this is real. People say you're ageing well!”
Facelift 2022
Jane Fonda
“I had a facelift and I stopped because I don't want to look distorted. I'm not proud of the fact that I had…”
Facelift 2022
Jessica Alves
“I have being on a waiting list to have the endoscopy facelift for over a year ... With two small incisions on…”
Facelift 2022
McKenzie Westmore
“I feel very blessed, and so lucky that Dr. Nassif helped me regain this old McKenzie back, if you will.”
Facelift 2022
Shannon Beador
“I had a facelift five weeks ago.”
Facelift 2022
Sharon Osbourne
“I had a full facelift done in October ... It hurt like hell. You have no idea.”
Facelift 2022
Braunwyn Windham-Burke
“mini facelift = complete”
Facelift 2021
Marc Jacobs
“I've got some scars around my ears, and my face is swollen, and I have a bruised neck, but I'm still posting…”
Facelift 2021
Abby Lee Miller
“Well, it was not about what I wanted, I guess it was what I needed ... I never thought about having a…”
Facelift 2020
Margaret Josephs
“I had this facelift revision after [Season 10] for reunion”
Facelift 2020
Sonja Morgan
“There's been speculation around my fresh new look. I got a lower facelift and neck lift after wrapping Season…”
Facelift 2020
Caroline Manzo
“So right then and there I said, 'OK, let's do a facelift.'”
Facelift 2019
D'Andra Simmons
“I'm all about telling people what I do, OK. I had a facelift.”
Facelift 2019
Dolores Catania
“No one ever believes that I had a facelift when I tell them because I still look like me”
Facelift 2019
Dr. Paul Nassif
“The excess skin, especially in my neck, was driving me crazy.”
Facelift 2019
Eden Sassoon
“I look amazing. I feel 24, I'm 45. It's been an incredible experience. I see myself in the mirror and that's…”
Facelift 2019
Eleonora Giorgi
“Ho fatto un lifting al viso ma non ho fatto toccare i miei occhi pieni di rughe e belli gonfi.”
Facelift 2019
Jacquie Beltrao
“I'm delighted with my lower face & neck lift and Hydrafacial treatments actually.”
Facelift 2019
Silvia Montanari
“Me hice un lifting total a los 39 años. Para qué si estaba divina. ... Me cambiaron las facciones, no me lo…”
Facelift 2019
Susana Vieira
“Fiz uma grande cirurgia quando tinha 50 anos. Fiz da cabeça aos pés. Fiz aquele lifting”
Facelift 2019
Carol McGiffin
“then I had a [covers mouth] facelift and then I came back to Loose Women ... I only had it three weeks ago.”
Facelift 2018
Cher
“Yes, I've had a facelift, but who hasn't?”
Facelift 2018
Maureen Nolan
“It took me three years to save for the facelift as I was always buying them things!”
Facelift 2018
Vicki Gunvalson
“I went to Tamra's doctor, 'cause she told me I needed a face-lift.”
Facelift 2018
Jeana Keough
“I was worried about the downtime. I didn't want to look like bloody, swollen Tales From the Crypt for a week.”
Facelift 2017
Linda Nolan
“I had a lower facelift with extreme skin peel and they did a little bit of laser surgery round my eyes.”
Facelift 2017
Nicky Haslam
“I don't think I'm perfect; that's why I've had face-lifts.”
Facelift 2017
Prue Leith
“When I was 50 and saw a photograph of myself looking 100, with double chins and wrinkles, I decided on a…”
Facelift 2017
Siggy Flicker
“Did I need a face-lift? No, I didn't need a face-lift. But am I happy I did it? I'm thrilled with the results.”
Facelift 2017
Tamra Judge
“I did a lower facelift, where they pull from the neck and the lower jaw. ... So I also got the upper eyelid…”
Facelift 2017
Crissy Rock
“I always was conscious about it so when I got better I decided to have my lower face done to remove the…”
Facelift 2016
David Gest
“I did plastic surgery in 1980 and I did my eyes and I had a facelift when I was very young because Michael…”
Facelift 2016
Sherrie Hewson
“I always said, 'I had a lift for me'... but I didn't really because I was in a marriage that I was trying to…”
Facelift 2016
Claire King
“When I looked at my double chin and sagging jawline, I was prepared to try a cosmetic procedure to improve my…”
Facelift 2015
Erica Jong
“No, in no way. I mean, it was years and years ago. I went to a surgeon in San Francisco who didn't do tight…”
Facelift 2015
Simona Izzo
“Mi sono fatta il lifting e ne sono felicissima. Lo consiglio a tutte”
Facelift 2015
Janice Dickinson
“Get a mini facelift. ... It kept me going up until last week when I noticed these.”
Facelift 2014
Kellie Maloney
“I've had my nose rebuilt, eyes lifted top and bottom, my whole face lifted up.”
Facelift 2014
Lee Grant
“The best thing in my life was to have the face-lift. It helped me enormously. It gave me a certain…”
Facelift 2014
Bill Balleza
“The weight loss made the sagging in my face and neck even worse so I decided to have a lower face lift.”
Facelift 2013
Courtney Love
“Nobody ask me about ageing gracefully, pleeease. C'mon, I took advice from Goldie Hawn when she said I should…”
Facelift 2013
Betsey Johnson
“I had a face lift when I turned fifty.”
Facelift 2012
Jeanne Cooper
“I walked by a mirror one day and scared the hell out of myself.”
Facelift 2012
Mirtha Legrand
“Dos, en toda mi vida. Sólo dos liftings.”
Facelift 2012
Debbie Harry
“Yeah. I think if I'd been very depressed about myself, I might not have done it. But it gave me encouragement…”
Facelift 2011
Kay Burley
“Inaccurate, as usual. I don't use Botox or fillers. It's a facelift.”
Facelift 2011
Liz Jones
“And so I agree to the following. A face-lift, which will involve incisions made behind my ears and up into my…”
Facelift 2011
Nacha Guevara
“Me hice un lifting a los 53 y me arreglé el mentón. También me puse botox varias veces.”
Facelift 2011
Shirley MacLaine
“So I had my face lifted. Never do that in the middle of a love affair because it's disconcerting to your…”
Facelift 2011
Joan Rivers
“The first thing was get rid of the bags under my eyes, I had my nose thinned and my chin done and my neck…”
Facelift 2010
Pete Burns
“My most recent overhaul was about a month ago. I had a minor facelift and my eyes slanted.”
Facelift 2010
Caitlyn Jenner
“I had it done and not even my close friends knew I had it done ... I mean that's how good of a job they [did].”
Facelift 2009
Brigitte Nielsen
“I'm getting a complete renewal - facelift, eyelift, fat injections in my face, liposuction, a breast lift and…”
Facelift 2008
Isabel Allende
“I had a facelift a few years ago and never regretted it.”
Facelift 2008
Toyah Willcox
“In this business, I accept that 95 per cent of it is about how you look, which is why I had a face-lift.”
Facelift 2008
Buzz Aldrin
“It's kind of funny, but I've been exposed to a lot of G-forces as a fighter pilot and in space. That caused a…”
Facelift 2007
Gene Simmons
“I'd thought about it before ... I was aware I had jowls.”
Facelift 2007
Naomi Judd
“I've had a facelift. And that's -- I probably wouldn't have done it if I was still Naomi Judd, R.N.”
Facelift 2007
Shannon Tweed
“I got a throat infection ... But it took my mind off the face lift.”
Facelift 2007
Phyllis Diller
“See now, I've had a complete face-lift, I know how to do the hair, I've been taught by the greatest makeup…”
Facelift 2006
Roseanne Barr
“Everybody thinks I'm continually doing it, but I had a face lift in 1991 or two and that's it.”
Facelift 2006
Virginia Ironside
“I had my last bit of surgery around six years ago when I was 56 - a facelift - and two years before that I…”
Facelift 2006
Vince Neil
“They did a lot of things ... Brow-lift, upper-lower eyes, partial face-lift, cheek implants, nose job,…”
Facelift 2004
Dolly Parton
“Yes. I've had different things done. ... Yes, I've had my eyes done.”
Facelift 2003
Dale Winton
“I've had a nose job and two facelifts because I had a nose that wouldn't photograph well,”
Facelift 2002
Katsuya Takasu
“I have undergone facial rejuvenation surgery on myself. The procedure was traditional face-lift with SMAS…”
Facelift 2001
Sondra Gotlieb
“I told them over and over I didn't want to look face-lifted. I just wanted to get rid of the gunk”
Facelift 2001
Linda Evans
“...facelift and laser surgery to get rid of the lines around my eyes.”
Facelift 2000
Peter Stringfellow
“I'd seen a few bad pictures of myself and I just thought, "Come on, Stringy, you have a strict door policy…”
Facelift 2000
Mary Tyler Moore
“I decided to get a new face, or at least a much younger version of the one I already had.”
Facelift 1995
Joan Kron
“At the end of my fourth consultation, I signed up for a $15,000 facelift and eye lift, and a lip peel.”
Facelift 1991
Mamie Van Doren
“I can look around this room and tell you every man and woman who has had a face lift. I like the fact that…”
Facelift 1989

Questions

Did Sia have a facelift?

By Sia's own account, yes. The statement is in Speech at the 5th Daytime Beauty Awards, Los Angeles, 2023-10-01, as quoted by The Hollywood Reporter, 2023-10-05, and billboard.com reported it.

What did Sia have done?

In Sia's words: “Facelift”. Sorted into the procedure library as facelift.

Who was Sia's surgeon?

Sia named Dr. Benjamin Talei, MD, #1 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.