Ariana Grande has clarified that she hasn’t used Botox in four years, despite what she recently joked about when accepting an award.
Grande sparked some rumours recently at the 36th annual Palm Springs International Film Awards when, as she accepted a Rising Star award on stage, she made a joke about using Botox and Juvederm, two of the leading brands of injectables for eliminating fine lines and wrinkles.
“You don’t know how much it means to me,” Grande said at the Palm Springs ceremony. “I’ve been performing since I was a child, so I never thought at the age of 31 I would be hearing the words ‘rising star’ again, so I wanted to start by thanking my two friends: Botox and Juvederm.”
Afterward, she clarified to Entertainment Tonight that she was just joking. “Oh my gosh,” Grande said with a laugh. “My joke. My bit. I’m still clean. I’m clean. But when I start going again, I will let you know. I mean it.”
She explained why it was important for her to clear up any speculation about her joke.
“I really want to be transparent as a beauty founder,” she said. “As a founder of R.E.M. Beauty, I think it’s important to have transparency. I love [Botox], but I am still four years clean.”
Grande’s comments echo what she previously revealed to fans in a 2023 beauty secrets video with Vogue, saying at the time that she’d had a “ton” of lip filler and Botox injections over the years before stopping cold turkey in 2018. “For a long time, beauty was about hiding for me, and now I feel like maybe it’s not,” she said in the emotional clip. “It was just like, ‘Oh, I just want to see my well-earned cry lines and smile lines’ … These are just thoughts that I feel like we should be able to discuss when we’re talking about beauty secrets. F— it, let’s lay it all out there.”
You can watch Grande clarify her joke about Botox below.
@entertainmenttonight The most unserious. Ariana Grande brought the jokes as she accepted her Rising Star award at the 36th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Film Awards. #arianagrande #wicked ♬ original sound – Entertainment Tonight
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