Martha Stewart spills ‘the truth’ on plastic surgery rumors

Martha Stewart is revealing the truth behind ongoing plastic surgery rumors surrounding her shockingly youthful appearance.

“Everybody insists that I’ve had plastic surgery and I have not ever had plastic surgery,” she told People while speaking about her skincare line, Elm Biosciences.

“I’m the most honest person on earth — but if they won’t take my word for it, I don’t know.”

“How can they not take my word for it?” she further wondered in the interview published Friday before insisting, “That’s the truth!”

While Stewart, 84, went on to admit that a plastic surgeon did do reparative work on her face after suffering an injury about a decade ago, she doesn’t consider that plastic surgery.

“I had to be at Today at 7 a.m. and there was a big blizzard. I leaned down in my dark kitchen to kiss the dogs goodbye,” she recalled of the accident involving one of her French bulldogs.

“I put my head down to one of my French bulldogs and I frightened her and she bolted up.”

“She didn’t bite me. She bashed my lip into my tooth and split it from my lip almost all the way to my nose and blood started gushing out all over the dog,” she continued. “This is 11 p.m. in a blizzard. This is the only time I’ve ever missed an appearance.”

Stewart and her security guard then drove through the snowstorm to get to the hospital, where she requested that a plastic surgeon see her “right away.”

“I get to the hospital and I think they did 16 stitches in my lip,” she said. “I can’t call that plastic surgery, that is a repair. It’s a terrible, terrible, terrible split lip… you cannot see. I healed so well. That is the extent of a plastic surgeon working on my face.”

Stewart, who recently shared her morning skincare routine, added, “That is the only time I’ve ever had a plastic surgeon touch my face.”

Back in September 2025, Stewart — who’s known for posting epic thirst traps — shared that “lots of people” slide into her DMs. Still, she said she wasn’t dating anybody special during her appearance on “Today With Jenna & Friends.”