Sia has revealed she’s had a face lift while addressing the audience at an awards ceremony.
Presenting the Outstanding Achievement in Medicine award to her ‘good friend’ Dr. Ben Talei at the 2023 Daytime Beauty Awards, the Chandelier singer said, “I’m a pop star that normally hides my face and doesn’t lie about shit. I got an amazing face lift from Dr. Talei.
“He is incredible. And he is doing so much good work – and not just for the pop stars of the world.”
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The singer, who is notorious for wearing a large blonde wig that covers her face, hasn’t been shy when it comes to telling people about the work she’s had done.
“I was showing someone in the back my before-and-afters right before I came on. People go, ‘You look nice.’ I’m like, ‘Dr. Ben Talei facelift’ for anything you could ever want,” she said.
“I love him, I can’t say enough good about him.”
Before her rise to fame in 2014, Sia worked with multiple pop artists on writing songs, and has always been open about that exposure to their fame being the leading factor in her decision to hide her face.
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In 2014 in an interview on US show Nightline, she spoke candidly about not wanting to be recognised or critiqued on her looks over the internet.
Over recent years, we have gotten glimpses of the pop star without her wig on, and in a 2021 interview with Gabor Mate, she revealed her insecurities had previously driven her to have cosmetic work done.
“I’ve had liposuction twice on my chin thinking I had a double chin and it turned out to be muscles that I use to sing,” she said.
“I was so insecure I did that to myself because I was so insecure and finally, I’m stopping doing any of that.”
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However, it seems Sia has now found her confidence, speaking with Zane Lowe about her plans to return to the stage without her iconic wig.
“When I got sober is when I put the wig on my face and that’s when I had in-ears and wig and I’m just like, ‘It’s like I’m in a little bubble with myself’,” she said on The Zane Lowe Show.
“I think maybe one day I’ll do a show with my face out again and have little fun talking to the audience and being heckled and getting present again because those shows were really fun back in the day before I had the wig on.
“They were really, really fun.”