It’s clear that David Gest had very extensive plastic surgery done on his face. He has been left with a strange result that is nowhere near natural! For a while there he looked pretty aged and tired. After a facelift, his face was left looking far too tight to be natural. The bags under his eyes, and the loose skin around his mouth have disappeared entirely, which points to a facelift and possibly even eyelid surgery. The problem is that after taking away the natural look of his face, he has been left looking strained and with limited motion in his face.
Finally, David Gest has also clearly had a rhinoplasty procedure done. His nose which was once thick and bulbous at the tip, has now become too thin and narrow. The tip has been refined to a point, and the nostrils tucked in. This is not how his natural nose looked, and of course the result has turned out looking unnatural!
“It was my idea to put in a clef chin and cheek bones – not Michael’s. Sometimes when you are young you are foolish and you get carried away. I remember I was looking in the mirror in an office building when I was with Band of Gold singer Freda Payne. I was mortified and almost fainted. I had the cheekbones removed a week later. I’ve come to realize that it’s not what’s on the outside, but it’s what’s on the inside that counts.”
It’s nice that David Gest has spoken openly about his plastic surgery mistakes and seems to have learned from them.
Dr. Paul S. Nassif, a facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon and a rhinoplasty specialist in Beverly Hills, California, says, “It is clear David Gest had some work done in the past, and may benefit from having subtle revisions performed to his previous surgeries to create a more natural appearance. “
Board certified Manhattan plastic surgeon Dr. David Shafer says, “It is definitely not the most flattering photo of David Gest. His eyebrows appear unnaturally peaked, hairline looks unnatural and midface unbalanced.”
David Gest regrets going under the knife. The reality star had a nose job, facelift, cheek implants and was given a cleft chin in 1981.
"I’ve never thought of myself as handsome,’ he says. ‘I can’t bear to look in the mirror. I was an idiot to have plastic surgery – there was nothing wrong with my nose. But nobody could have stopped me at the time. I was a foolish kid."
David, now 55, says appearing on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! in 2006 helped him accept his appearance.
"It is the best thing I ever did,’ he says. ‘I finally realised that people liked me. I guess people saw the real me and realised I wasn’t just a freak in sunglasses. I get mobbed in the street by fans now. It’s crazy, but I love it."
