Shannen Doherty Recalls Hearing She’s a 'Great Candidate' for a Facelift — but 'Wanted to Be Told' She Wasn't

Shannen Doherty is opening up about her experiences with cosmetic procedures — good and bad!

In the Feb. 26 episode of her podcast, Let's Be Clear with Shannen Doherty, the actress, 52, invited her friend Anne Marie Kortright to chat about everything from sexual wellness to skin care.

While chatting about beauty routines, Kortright, a model, told the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum she has not gotten any invasive procedures done because she is “petrified of the needles” — and moved her face around to prove it.

“Mine does too, but I have had Botox,” Doherty replied. “I’ve done it a couple times. I think the last time I did it was, like, six months ago.”

The Charmed actress raved about her recent experience, which was with celebrity-favorite plastic surgeon Dr. Jason Diamond, before recalling a “horrible” one.

She said that two days after the Botox appointment, “my husband looked at me and said, ‘What did you do to your face?’ ... My nose wouldn’t even move, it was terrible.”

More recently, Doherty said, she went to Dr. Diamond for an “overall assessment.”

“I wanted to be told that I didn’t need a facelift,” she said. “I went in to be like I’m, ‘Oh, I’m here for a facelift consult,’ and what I wanted to hear was, ‘You don’t need one.’” 

“But instead what I heard was, ‘Oh, you’re a great candidate for one,’” she recalled, “and I was like, ‘No! No, not yet.’ It petrifies me.”

After Kortright declared that that would be an “interesting moment in life” — if Doherty decided to have the procedure — the star said, “Oh, God, I don’t know if I can do it.”

“It really scares me,” she added. “I don’t want to come out like a different person — that’s what really frightens me.”

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Doherty previously denounced cosmetic procedures altogether in a 2021 Instagram post that celebrated aging — and declared that she wants “to see women like me.”

Alongside a stripped-down selfie, the Charmed star wrote, “Watching movies tonight and noticed there were few female characters I could relate to. You know, women without fillers, without Botox, without a facelift. Women who embraced their face and all the experience it showed.”

"I have lived. I love that I’ve lived and that my face reflects my life,” she continued. “I survived a lot yes cancer but more than that. I embrace me now. Finally. Done with the perception magazines and Hollywood try to make us in to.”

“I want to see women like me,” she finished. “Women like us.”