Cheryl Burke Slams Plastic Surgery Speculation—Again
Cheryl Burke is getting tired of repeating herself.
Amid online rumors that she used plastic surgery to change her appearance, the Dancing With the Stars alum set the record straight once and for all.
“Let’s clear this up for the 1,000th time,” Cheryl captioned an Aug. 15 Instagram post. “Botox? Yes. Surgery? No. Fillers? No. Scars? Nonexistent. Skin bleaching? Nope.”
And beyond getting candid about what she has gotten done, the 41-year-old went on to reveal the true “mystery” behind her face transformation.
“My skin tone shift is just what happens when you swap tanning beds for SPF and let your natural half-Pinay, half-white self come through,” she explained. “You can age gracefully and still enjoy a little Botox. Stop confusing it with plastic surgery.”
After all, this wasn’t the first time Cheryl has been forced to shut down plastic surgery speculation. In fact, some fans went as far as suspecting she got a full “face transplant” back in May.
“Let’s just address the elephant in the comments section,” she said in a video shared to TikTok at the time. “I’m not on Ozempic, I’m not sick, I didn’t get a face transplant and no I did not get a brow lift.”
“The level of projection that is happening and that I am witnessing is wild,” she continued. “The way some of you guys talk about me, it’s like you think I’m a headline or a filter. Not a person.”
Detailing how she’s seen “we miss the old Cheryl” comments, she emphasized that she has evolved over her decades in the public eye.
“I hate to break it to you,” she expressed. “That Cheryl doesn’t exist anymore. The assumptions are just exhausting as hell. The accusations are completely cruel. And the fact that so many of them are actually coming from women, that’s what is so shocking and hurtful to be honest.”
The dancer has also pointed out that the way she looked has always been subject to public dialogue—and it’s taken a toll.
“I do suffer from body dysmorphia,” she told Entertainment Tonight in a June interview. “Especially as a dancer in front of mirrors constantly since I was a little girl, and this was even before my Dancing with the Stars career.”
“In the height of my insecurity and my body dysmorphia was weekly fittings on the show,” she continued. “And I don't blame the show by any means—it's just the name of the game. We're squeezing into these costumes, but it would affect me to the point where I would weigh myself constantly. I would travel with a scale—like that's crazy.”
For more stars who have denied or spoken out about their own cosmetic procedures, keep reading…
Travis Barker and ex Shanna Moakler's daughter has been open about her use of lip fillers but denies having cosmetic surgery.
In February 2024, she shared photos of herself wearing a bikini on Instagram, to which a user commented, "This child has done alot of cosmetic surgery @ a very young age, I hope she doesn't over do it! She looks good now!"
The 18-year-old responded, "I really appreciate the love! I'm natural, besides my lips, accept the fact I'm naturally beautiful."
The Twilight alum told Harper's Bazaar U.K. in 2015 she will "never" get plastic surgery, adding, "I am so freaked out by the idea of doing anything. And maybe that's completely arrogant but I don't want to change anything about myself. I think the women who do are losing their minds. It's vandalism."
The actress told Good Housekeeping in 2008. "You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift."
The supermodel opened up about why she's all about embracing her skin at every age.
"This is a 58 year old face without fillers, Botox or surgery in good light with professional gorgeous makeup," she wrote in her Aug. 21 Instagram caption. "I have chosen not to put anything 'into' my face."
She continued, "Some days, I like it. I feel like my face has gained character even as it's lost its youthful prettiness. And it seems a fair trade off."
The Fast X star revealed whether or not she's gotten plastic surgery.
"My face is changing," she told Allure in an interview published Aug. 18, "and I love that my face is changing and aging. People think I had a facelift. They're like, 'What did she do to her face?' I'm like, 'Bitch, I'm just aging! It doesn't mean I got bad plastic surgery. This is just what happens.'"
The Charlie's Angels star admitted she's never gotten any cosmetic injectables, telling People, "I've never put a needle in my face. And by the way, most people do it and truly, there's no judgement. But I make my living with my face."
She added, "Basically I'm terrified of f--king it up."
The Magic Mike actress set the record straight on whether or not she's gotten facial injectables. "No Botox!" she put it bluntly on Kelly Ripa's Let's Talk Off Camera podcast.
In 2021, the supermodel, who rose to fame in the '90s as one of the first, sued Zeltiq Aesthetics, alleging that its CoolScupting fat-reducing procedures that she underwent in 2015 and 2016 left her "permanently disfigured." The parties reached a settlement in the case in 2022.
In January 2021, while pregnant, the model wrote on her Instagram Story in response to fans' questions: "For anyone saying 'you need to stop w/ the lip injections': I've never had lip injections (no judging folks who do—ya'll look great!) but you can't even get injections when you're pregnant!"
Jenny from the Block continues to look like Jenny from the Block. In January 2021, she told an Instagram user, "I have never done Botox or any other injectables or surgery!! Just sayin'."
The actress did have a nose job when she was younger to fix a deviated septum but has spoke out against Botox and other facial fillers.
"There is also this pressure in Hollywood to be ageless," she told Yahoo! Beauty in 2014. "I think what I have been witness to, is seeing women trying to stay ageless with what they are doing to themselves. I am grateful to learn from their mistakes, because I am not injecting s--t into my face."
"I've probably tried everything. I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy," the actress told Harper's Bazaar in 2013.
The actress told InStyle magazine in 2012, "I say, don't fight the rings on the trunk of a tree. Just keep counting 'em."
"The idea of not looking like myself scares me," she added.
The actress told The Telegraph in 2011, "I'm not fiddling about with myself. We're in this awful youth-driven thing now where everybody needs to look 30 at 60."
"Nah. It's not my thing," the actress told MORE magazine in 2007. "I don't have anything against it for other people. Whatever they want to do, I'm fine with it. For me, it's really a self-image thing. Like, I'd rather have somebody go, "Wow, that girl has a big nose" than 'Wow, that girl has a bad nose job.' I'd rather have a comment about who I am than about something that identifies me as being ashamed of who I am."
In 2011, the pop star told Harper's Bazaar, "I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification."
In 2011, the actress told the U.K. newspaper The Telegraph that cosmetic surgery goes against her morals, the way her parents brought her up and what she considers to be "natural beauty."
"I will never give in," she added. "I am an actress, I don't want to freeze the expression of my face."
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