Bunnie Xo Says Her Facelift Is Making Her Feel Like She’s Being ‘Choked’ as She Details Recovery Journey

NEED TO KNOW

• Bunnie Xo continues to keep fans in the loop about her recent plastic surgery

• Earlier this month, the podcaster got a facelift at 46, and in her new update, she revealed some of the side effects she’s experiencing as she recovers from the cosmetic procedure

• The author revealed that she underwent a facelift because of the effects old filler had on her appearance

Bunnie Xo‘s unfiltered look on plastic surgery keeps on coming.

The 46-year-old Dumb Blonde host and wife of country singer Jelly Roll got a facelift earlier this month, and in a new post-op update shared to Instagram, said that she feels like she’s being “choked from ear to ear” thanks to the tightening. Among her other side effects, she wrote, are not being able to walk “without being winded” and having to “live in a recliner.”

“Everyone keeps telling you day 7 is the best day but that’s tomorrow and you have lost all faith in humanity,” she wrote across the March 23 post. “I kno [sic], I did this to myself but damn,” she added in the caption.

Bunnie Xo (real name Alisa DeFord) announced that she was undergoing the cosmetic surgery on the March 13 episode of her podcast. “Send lots of prayers for your girl,” she said, adding, “I’m going to look crazy, guys. I’m going to be so bruised. It’s going to be a little weird. Don’t freak out.”

Days later, she gave her social media followers an immediate look at her fresh results. An Instagram post shared on March 16 revealed her swollen face and her head wrapped in bandages holding surgical pumps in place.

On day 5 of her recovery journey, the Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic author showed a better look at her face bruised in certain areas, but without stitches. “New face, who dis? (Also how cute is my hubby’s country ass?)” she wrote in reference to a text she received from Jelly Roll that read: “Baby you are healing like a salt water croc — holy f— you look good.”

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The star, who often preaches about self-love, said she’s been planning for her facelift for years. “Yes, I love natural bodies,” she shared in a January Dumb Blonde episode. “I preach against, you know, plastic surgery that I’ve had that I wish I hadn’t gotten. A facelift is not one of them. If you have listened to previous podcasts, I have literally said for the past three years, I’m going to get a facelift when I’m 46.”

Of course, Bunnie Xo has not kept the why behind her surgery a secret. “For everyone asking why I decided to do a facelift, old filler was one of the main reasons,” she shared on Instagram on March 18. “I had stopped getting filler over 3 years ago in my face (I did have some in my lips tho), had it dissolved multiple times in my cheeks & it still was in my face.”

According to E! News, Bunnie Xo has also undergone breast implant removal surgery, a rhinoplasty and a gluteal fat grafting procedure to transfer fat from her lower back and stomach to the top area of her buttocks (she’s called this the “worst thing” she’s ever done).

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