Martha Stewart Denies ‘Ever’ Having Plastic Surgery Done, But There Is an Exception

Martha Stewart wants to shut down rumors and endless online speculation that her youthful face is the result of plastic surgery.

The lifestyle mogul, 84, spoke in an exclusive interview with People to set the record straight, telling the outlet that she has never had plastic surgery… by her definition, that is.

“Everybody insists that I’ve had plastic surgery, and I have not ever had plastic surgery,” she said. “I’m the most honest person on earth — but if they won’t take my word for it, I don’t know.”

Stewart added, “How can they not take my work for it? That’s the truth!”

While she is adamant that she’s never had plastic surgery to give her a more youthful appearance, she admitted that she did have “a repair” done about a decade ago after an accident involving her dog.

“I had to be at Today at 7 a.m. and there was a big blizzard. I leaned down in my dark kitchen to kiss the dogs goodbye,” she told the outlet. “I put my head down to one of my French bulldogs and I frightened her and she bolted up.”

“She didn’t bite me. She bashed my lip into my tooth and split it from my lip almost all the way to my nose and blood started gushing out all over the dog,” Stewart continued.

The Yes, Chef! star explained she immediately drove to the hospital at 11 p.m. in a snow storm. She said she immediately requested a plastic surgeon, but doesn’t consider it a blemish on her “no plastic surgery” record.

“I get to the hospital and I think they did 16 stitches in my lip,” she said. “I can’t call that plastic surgery, that is a repair. It’s a terrible, terrible, terrible split lip… you cannot see. I healed so well. That is the extent of a plastic surgeon working on my face.”

While she’s never had a plastic surgeon touch her face for anything beyond that repair, that’s not to say she’s done nothing. People notes that in a February 2024 episode of her podcast The Martha Stewart Podcast, she spoke about using botox, fillers and skin tightening on her face in a conversation with Dr. Daniel Belkin.