Katherine Ryan has revealed she has gone under the knife for a full facelift to ‘reclaim her identity’ after being pregnant six times in the last five years.
The comedian, 42, said the £16,000 invasive procedure took place just eight weeks after she gave birth to her fourth child, Holland, last October.
While she had hinted about having cosmetic work done at the time, she has not disclosed any details until now.
‘The surgery was a facelift. Yes, a full facelift – a little bit of fat transfer to my cheekbone area, and a small bleph[aroplasty],’ she said on her podcast, Telling Everybody Everything, on Tuesday.
‘A bleph is when they take a tiny bit of your eyelid skin, though not too much, and then they’ll usually – to avoid hollowness, put a little bit of fat back in there too. So I had some fat put in like my upper face, my eyelids, and then I had a facelift.’
Katherine added that the surgery was as much an emotional milestone as a physical one after being pregnant six times in five years, having suffered three miscarriages alongside the births of her three children with Bobby.
Katherine Ryanhas revealed she has gone under the knife for a full faceliftto ‘reclaim her identity’ after being pregnant six times in the last five years (pictured in February 2026)
The comedian, 42, said the £16,000 invasive procedure took place just eight weeks after she gave birth to her fourth child, Holland, last October (pictured in October)
‘Almost metaphorically I needed to do something, to reclaim my identity, to reclaim my autonomy, to claw back the face that I had in, like, 2019,’ she said.
‘I am not crazy. I’m not trying to wind it back to 2006. I’m just trying to look the way I did, like, pre-COVID, pre-six pregnancies in five years.’
She had the surgery with Dr Nick Rhodes at the Coppergate Clinic in York, where a full face lift costs upwards of £16,000.
‘He is an esteemed consultant plastic surgeon who has trained many of these London guys who charge more,’ Katherine added.
‘I have seen a lot of his before-and-after work, both in photos and in the flesh. I know real people who’ve been to see him. I think that is very important when choosing a surgeon.
‘And just like Dr. Steven Levine, who did Kris Jenner, said to me, I believe that you and your surgeon have to have the same idea of what pretty is. Dr. Nick Rhodes has done some work on my friends. I think they look beautiful.’
The Canadian star, who shares baby Holland, Fred, four, and Fenna, three, with husband Bobby Kootstra – and has a 16-year-old daughter, Violet, from a previous relationship – said she had ‘zero out of ten pain’ after the surgery.
‘The beauty is you’re pretty numb afterwards,’ she explained. ‘I was bruised, and I was swollen, and I think I am still a little bit swollen. But basically, I just went about my daily life from day one.
Katherine’s surgery was as much an emotional milestone as a physical one after being pregnant six times in five years, having suffered three miscarriages alongside the births of her three children with Bobby (pictured with daughter Holland)
‘The surgery was a facelift. Yes, a full facelift – a little bit of fat transfer to my cheekbone area, and a small bleph[aroplasty],’ she said (pictured in February 2026)
‘They sent me home with some paracetamol. If I had needed stronger drugs, I think that was available, but I didn’t. I took ibuprofen, paracetamol for like three days.’
She said that just weeks after the surgery, ‘I went to Christmas parties. I took the kids to Lapland. I went to the Royal Hall for carolling. I did all of the Christmas stuff. I looked after a newborn baby.’
She continued: ‘It’s important for my marriage that Bobby and I – we both get to enjoy the kids – I think that we should both have the same amount of physical damage.
‘And after all those babies… We did not have the same amount of physical damage. Bobby’s still a hunk, and my face has gotten fat and thin, and fat and thin, and fat and thin.’
The star said she was pleased Dr Rhodes talked her out of a lip lift, telling her it would not suit her face shape. ‘Because I followed his guidance, and I had a beautiful skilled surgeon do my facelift, it doesn’t look wild,’ she said.
Katherine admitted, however, that her eldest daughter Violet had been worried about the results at first.
‘She was concerned because she was like, this is going to look horrible. You’re going to come back looking totally different,’ Katherine recalled. ‘And I don’t look different at all. I look a little bit refreshed. My neck is amazing.’
She said the surgery has given her a ‘super snatched little teensy lollipop neck’ that she never had, even in her twenties, and dismissed years of trying to achieve the same results with filler and lasers.
Katherine had the surgery with Dr Nick Rhodes at the Coppergate Clinic in York, where a full face lift costs upwards of £16,000 (pictured in December 2022)
‘You get to a point where if you really want to pull it back, you just need a facelift,’ she said.
Katherine pushed back against the idea that facelifts are only for older women or always result in an unnatural look, paying tribute to the late Joan Rivers while challenging outdated perceptions.
‘People assume that a facelift always looks botched, or always looks crazy, or always looks like you’ve been in a wind tunnel,’ she said. ‘But it’s for anyone who feels like they have lost a lot of skin elasticity, and they want to mend that laxity with surgery.’
She also rejected suggestions she should have waited until she was older, saying: ‘The clue is in the name. If I wanted to lift my face, then the surgery that I needed was a facelift.’
The comedian, who has always been refreshingly open about her cosmetic procedures – including breast augmentation in her early twenties and regular Botox with aesthetician Dr Nina Bal – had alluded to undergoing cosmetic work in December but did not reveal the specific procedure at the time.
She also took aim at women who lie about getting cosmetic treatments, adding: ‘One of the most important things that you can do following a facelift surgery, or probably any surgery on your face, is ice it.
‘I was really following the rules, icing my face a lot, and I laughed because I thought of some of these celebrities who are around my age who look suspiciously amazing all of a sudden, and they love to say, like, “I’ve just been icing my face”.
‘And I held the ice pack to my jaw. I thought, yeah, b****, I’ve been icing my face too – as part of my recovery from a facelift! These women are having facelifts.’
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