Iggy Azalea, the Australian rapper who has been a prominent figure in the music industry for over a decade, has undergone significant changes in her appearance over the course of her career. She burst onto the music scene with her iconic ice-blonde hair and fair skin, quickly earning her a fan base. However, her facial features and physique have transformed over the years.
According to Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr Randal Haworth, Azalea’s facial features may have been further altered, other than the rhinoplasty, which ‘straightened and narrowed her nose’. He believes she may have opted for a chin augmentation and mandibular angle enhancement to achieve a more defined and sculpted jawline.
In a 2015 interview with Vogue, Azalea confessed to having had a breast enlargement. She has repeatedly denied rumors of butt implants, stating that her butt is real. After Azalea’s pregnancy in 2020, there were rumors about her postpartum body. Despite denying any assistance, there was still curiosity surrounding Azalea’s rapid return to her recognizable hourglass figure.
Overall, Azalea’s appearance has undergone significant changes, with her figure becoming more voluptuous and her facial features becoming more defined and sculpted. Despite these changes, she remains a prominent figure in the music industry, attracting a devoted following of fans with her infectious beats and bold lyrics.
Despite the denial, there was still curiosity surrounding Azalea’s rapid return to her recognizable hourglass figure. Some speculated that she may have undergone additional cosmetic procedures, while others believed that her body transformation was due to her rigorous workout routine and diet.
However, it’s worth noting that while Azalea’s physical appearance has certainly undergone significant changes over the years, her talent as a musician has remained a constant. She continues to release hit singles and collaborate with other artists, earning critical acclaim for her work.
In fact, Azalea has also been recognized for her business acumen, having successfully launched her own makeup line and even created a presence for herself on the subscription-based adult entertainment platform OnlyFans. With her loyal fan base and entrepreneurial spirit, it’s clear that Iggy Azalea is much more than just her appearance.
In conclusion, Iggy Azalea’s transformation has been a subject of fascination for many fans and critics alike. While her changing appearance has been well-documented, her success in the music industry and her entrepreneurial ventures speak to her talent and business acumen. Ultimately, Azalea’s story serves as a reminder that one’s appearance should not overshadow their accomplishments and talents.
Iggy Azalea has been quashing rumors that her looks are courtesy of various surgical procedures just like she denied blackfishing recently
Iggy Azalea recently rubbished blackfishing rumors after battling hearsay that she got plastic surgery (@thenewclassic/Instagram)
Iggy Azalea was in the news recently after fans and critics leveled “blackfishing” allegations against the rapper. In layman terms, blackfishing is similar to catfishing and it refers to someone who resorts to different ways – including makeup – to appear Black or racially ambiguous. The term was coined by hip-hop journalist Wanna Thompson in 2018.
The Australian-born rapper said she shot the video of ‘I Am The Stripclub‘ in a dimly lit room with red lights. Rubbishing all blackfishing allegations, Azalea said she has been using the same makeup for years and has been the same color as she has always been. It’s the same makeup from every other part of the video just with a Smokey eye and different wig. Just ignore them, who cares? Let ’em talk,” she said while replying to one of her fans on Twitter.
This is not the first time Azalea’s looks have sparked controversy. She has been battling plastic surgery rumors for many years. Even though she has admitted to having gotten rhinoplasty and breast augmentation, Azalea in the past claimed her famous butt is courtesy of a clean diet and exercise while continuing to never address rumors about her silicone jaw amongst other things. Here’s a rundown of all the times Azalea defended herself over her transformed looks.
In 2017, Azalea in an interview with Stav, Abby, and Matt on an Australian radio program said, “No, I don’t have bum implants! They’re not my real boobs, but it is my real butt.” After having a baby, Iggy debuted her washboard abs in a couple of months and once again denied rumors that she went under the knife to look perfect. Azalea is very connected to her fans on Twitter and communicates with them throughout the day. It was during one such interaction where she said she was in great shape when pregnant and that coupled with a healthy diet was responsible for her godly post-pregnancy body.
However, Azalea has never shied away from talking about her boobs which she got done in 2015, candidly at that. “Four months ago, I got bigger boobs! I’d thought about it my entire life,” she told Vogue the same year. Talking to E! about why she chose to address it in the media, she said, “I love them so much I had to talk about them,” she revealed. “Everybody did say, ‘I don’t think you need to say it because no one will ever know because they’re so small.’ I said, ‘I know but I’m just going to say it [because] I’m a blabbermouth!”‘ Azalea added before saying, “I’d feel better not to have some secret. It’s much freer to say it and then you don’t have to worry someone will dig it up,’ she added.”
Iggy Azalea performs onstage during iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2014, hosted by Z100 New York and presented by Goldfish Puffs at Madison Square Garden on December 12, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)
Dr Randal Haworth, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, spoke to a publication in 2019 and noted that the musician might have made additional changes to her face more than she lets on. Azalea had been open about getting a rhinoplasty and breast augmentation but Haworth argued that she might have invested in a couple of “subtle” and “beautiful” procedures to fine-tune her already flawless visage. “Iggy is what I would describe as an excellent ‘canvas’ on which a plastic surgeon can reveal his work,” Haworth observed. “When done right, results can be sublime and indiscernible to a layman’s eye,” he said.
Haworth himself didn’t treat Azalea but he believed she underwent “a chin augmentation as well as mandibular angle enhancement to give her a more refined, modelesque jawline.” He further added, “This can be done either with solid silicone implants or off-the-shelf injectable fillers, but either way, her results are spectacularly non-obvious.”
Azalea hasn’t commented on Haworth’s observations about her looks.
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“Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.” Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Living in the modern world becomes more complex and harder as life in the 21st-century becomes faster and faster. We are burdened with responsibilities and distracted by an interminable onslaught of media in all forms including the capricious internet. It seems as if everything is competing for our attention in one way, shape or form while stealing precious time we could otherwise devote to family, friends and simply to our own selves. Therefore, when it comes to saving time, the need to heal quickly after any cosmetic procedure is almost rapacious.
Unfortunately, there is no magic pill or formula to bypass the post operative inflammation of bruising, swelling and discomfort at this current time. As one of the top plastic surgeons in Beverly Hills, Dr. HAWORTH has seen a thing or two about how patients heal after the thousands of surgeries he has performed over two decades. As a facial plastic surgery expert, he has performed thousands of primary and revision rhinoplasties, brow lift, facelifts and blepharoplasties not to mention the breast implant operations throughout his career and has realized there are things you can do both at home and in the clinical setting to accelerate your healing.
First of all, it is a good idea to focus on whole foods as much as possible while avoiding processed ones as the former will contain the highest levels of vitamins and amino acids your body will need for a speedy recovery. Amino acids help wounds heal faster and obviously, these are found in chicken, meats, egg whites, fish, brown rice, healthy nuts like walnuts and almonds or sunflower seeds. Taking supplemental vitamin C in your diet while increasing zinc in your diet can be helpful. Instead of taking vitamin C for a bottle, you can eat strawberries, papayas and citrus fruits which are great sources of vitamin C. 500-1000mg is the usual amount that is taken. Zinc is found in oysters which have one of the highest levels of zinc found in any food. If you are going to take a supplement, 15 mg of zinc daily is the recommended amount but you can increase your zinc intake to 30–50 mg for 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after surgery, using zinc picolinate.
Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Haworth also recommends these useful supplements to take in preparation for your surgery include:
B12 and Iron – Iron and B12 both aid bone marrow in forming new blood cells, so incorporate foods like fish and eggs.
Vitamin B6250mg, twice a day for a week, starting 3 days after surgery. This helps reduce post-surgical fluid retention, such as swelling of the face, hands, feet or legs. With B6, you can experience substantial reduction within 24 to 48 hours.
CoQ10- Surgical trauma (particularly from cardiac surgery) causes an increase in free radicals, which damage cellular function. For this reason alone, you should take at least 50 mg of CoQ10 as part of your daily routine before your cosmetic surgery and 100–200 mg/day for at least 4 weeks after.
Fiber and probiotics – This combination helps boost the immune system and also keeps your digestive tract moving along. Eating yogurt with granola is just one easy way to get a serving of both fiber and probiotics! When choosing a probiotic, consider one that contains acidophilus and bifida bacteria (follow label instructions for dosage). Surgical patients often receive oral or intravenous antibiotics in the hospital, which creates the potential for yeast infections, digestive disturbances and diarrhea. A probiotic may help counteract these problems.
One amino acid that has been shown to speed with healing is glutamine and a study from Harvard and Dave showed that it shortened healing by about four days. Apart from supplements, glutamine can be found in beef, chicken and all types of fish. Dairy products such as cheese, milk, yogurt and eggs contain glutamine with ricotta and cottage cheese being the two richest sources. Vegetarians can find glutamine in beans and lentils.
For most of his patients, facial plastic surgery specialist Haworth recommends supplemental Arnica Montana, Bromelain/ Bromezyme (this pineapple enzyme helps prevent blood clots, aids digestion while decreasing inflammation and pain after surgery) and Pycnogenol/Pine bark. This triumvirate is aimed at reducing bruising, soreness and inflammatory edema.
Apart from the above, many patients inquire about any other additional medications, exercises or procedures that can be done to maximally reduce their healing times after surgery. Of course, all patients should ask their individual physicians or surgeons about their own personalized recommendations to speed up recovery which is beyond the scope of this post.
Bioptron® Light employs a combination of polarized infrared and visible light (480nm-3400nm) considered beneficial in the treatment of wound problems and injuries by exerting its effect at the cellular level. Bioptron® therapy has a low energy density (fluency) of 2.4 J/cm2 at a distance of 10 cm and can penetrate the skin up to 2.5 cm.
This patient had impending skin necrosis around her here after a facelift. Only 7 days of Bioptron ® light therapy were administered and notice the rapid improvement in reversing the damage.After 5 days of Bioptron® therapy to resolve bruising resulting from lower eyelid procedure to treat her dark circles/tear troughs.After 3 days of Bioptron® light therapy to accelerate the resolution of bruising and skin injury after a breast reduction by Dr. HAWORTH.
It has been used effectively in the treatment of burns, pressure sores, leg ulcers, wounds, pain and recently, postoperative healing. Dr Haworth have found it very useful in his clinic to reduce both swelling and bruising. Supporting his experience, other plastic surgeons here and abroad have noted decreased resolution times of eccymosis and edema following surgery by over 33% with Bioptron®. Indeed, it has been used to also reverse the course of cutaneous necrosis as well as accelerate granulation of open wounds, either alone or in conjunction with hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT).
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized room or tube. It is a well-established treatment for decompression sickness, a hazard of scuba diving. Other conditions treated with HBOT include serious infections, bubbles of air in blood vessels and non-healing wounds as a result of diabetes or radiation injury.
In a HBOT chamber, the air pressure is increased to 3 times higher than normal air pressure and under these conditions, your lungs can gather more oxygen than would be possible breathing pure oxygen at normal air pressure. However, there is some confusion about what actually is “true” HBOT. Those employing “soft” tent like enclosures are essentially useless since they are unable to obtain a true hyperbaric environment of 2 to 4 atmospheres absolute (ATA). In fact, these personal or home-use “hyperbaric” tent enclosures can usually only attain a pressure of 1.3 ATA. There is a debate as to how much and how many treatments are necessary to speed up recovery after plastic surgery. While most plastic surgeons perhaps recommend one preoperatively and at least 3 to 5 postoperatively, experts in the field say one needs at least 15 to 20 treatments in order to see significant results. In my experience, 3 to 5 treatments are all that is necessary to achieve the more modest goals of reducing edema, bruising and discomfort resulting from elective plastic surgery.
After certain surgeries, body contouring plastic surgery expert Dr Randal Haworth may also recommend selective lymphatic massage/drainage to resolve edema (swelling) of the extremities, particularly after liposuction or liposculpture.
The above aforementioned vitamins, nutritional supplements and clinical interventions may not be the panacea to surgical healing which comes in a pill form, but they certainly are a step in the right direction in making recovery from any procedure as smooth as possible in 2017.
