7 Pics Of Lisa Rinna's Pre-Plastic Surgery Face That Are Wild To See Today

Although Lisa Rinna has made a name for herself with her wild outfits that pair perfectly with her over-the-top personality, her love affair with plastic surgery is also something she can't escape. Rinna was only 24 when she first dipped her toe into plastic surgery waters, and she got permanent lip filler. "I had my lips injected with silicone — stupid thing to do [at] 24," Rinna told Hoda Kotb on "Today" in March 2013, adding that she was influenced by Barbara Hershey's lips in 1988's "Beaches."

But because silicone shouldn't be used in lips, Rinna had surgery in 2010 to have as much of the hardened substance removed. "I feel like I'm a pioneer," Rinna told Kotb, explaining that she doesn't regret the decision, because it ultimately gave her everything she has today. "I never had a career before I had the lips."

Despite needing that lip reduction, it hasn't stopped Rinna from trying other types of cosmetic procedures. In 2024, she gave SkinVive a try to reduce the appearance of wrinkles, but it didn't go as planned, making her look "freakish," according to Rinna. "It was really humiliating because I knew that it looked terrible," Rinna told Daily Mail in March 2026. "Fortunately, I'm an old battle axe at this point and I can take it." Because you won't recognize Rinna's face before all the extreme fillers, a collection of pre-plastic surgery photos of Rinna are in order. The difference between 1989 and 2026 is absolutely wild.

When this photo of Lisa Rinna and Peter Barton was taken in 1989, the lip filler had already been injected (based on Rinna's account of having her lips done for the first time at 24). However, it had yet to migrate and harden, so they look pretty natural. Rinna also doesn't appear to have touched any other part of her face, which makes sense, as many of the fillers that are used today weren't available in 1989. For example, the SkinVive that Rinna tried in 2024 wasn't approved by the FDA until May 2023.

In 1991, Lisa Rinna's upper lip is a little fuller than it was two years prior, but she still looks very natural. It's also worth noting this is probably the last year Rinna had long hair, deciding to cut it in the early 1990s. "I was taking an acting class and I'd just broken up with a boyfriend," Rinna told The Standard in May 2023. "Someone sitting next to me had just cut their hair off and I thought: 'Oh my God, that's the coolest thing I've ever seen.' It was just one of those moments after a [breakup] where you change your look, and I guess I never really went back."

By 1993, Lisa Rinna had already met Harry Hamlin, whom she'd eventually marry in 1997. Rinna had also secured the role of Billie Reed on "Days of Our Lives" and solidified herself as one of the celebrities who took a stunning leap from long to short hair — a style that she still has today. What Rinna doesn't know in this photo is that, in less than 10 years, the FDA will approve Botox for treating fine lines, ultimately changing her life (and face) forever.

In 1996, Lisa Rinna made the jump from daytime to primetime television when she was cast as Taylor McBride in "Melrose Place." To no surprise, Rinna fit in perfectly. Although the 1990s were all about skinny brows, it's refreshing to see that Rinna was a celebrity embracing bushy eyebrows (and looking chic while doing so). Had she plucked them into oblivion, as many people did, there's a good chance she would have eventually sought an eyebrow transplant surgery, adding to her long list of cosmetic procedures.

On March 29, 1997, Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin got married at their home in Beverly Hills. Without the invention of fillers or Botox, Rinna looks very natural, although her lips are definitely fuller than they were in the late 1980s. While this might be due to the migration of the silicone that created scar tissue resulting in her lips being "hard and bumpy, like peas," as Rinna told People in 2010, or the fact that she tried cortisone shots before her 2010 lip reduction (which made her lips far worse), we don't know for sure.

In 1998, Lisa Rinna got her first breast implants. Then, after her daughter Amelia was born in 2001, Rinna decided to get implants again. "[After breastfeeding], they were down to my knees," Rinna said in an August 2025 episode of her "Let's Not Talk About The Husband" podcast (via US Weekly). "I wanted to get my mojo back. ... I didn't like them deflated. I didn't feel good with deflated boobs." While Rinna's breast augmentations don't affect her face, it does prove she's fearless when it comes to cosmetic surgery and, frankly, good for her.

Although Lisa Rinna probably isn't done with cosmetic procedures — after all, Botox needs to be injected every few months if it's going to continue to work as it should — one of her daughters has jumped on the bandwagon. "I'm doing this thing right now called SkinVive, which is a moisturizer injection, not a filler," Amelia Gray Hamlin told Variety in January 2026, adding that she'd also had breast implants and a nose job. Interestingly, it's the same SkinVive that gave her mother a "freakish" appearance. Rinna's other daughter, Delilah Belle Hamlin, denies any cosmetic surgery so far.