What Star Lost Her Belly Button? She Has Admitted To A Tummy Tuck

She's 50 years old as of last week, spent years on a hit sitcom, and has four sons. She openly had a breast lift and tummy tuck, and wrote about the experience:

Her breasts, she says, were "horrifying." And her stomach was a mess. "I had a big ridge of scar tissue. My belly button was herniated. Then there was that skin that hung there. It didn't work to suck it in. It wouldn't have mattered if I had done 1,000 sit-ups. "

The tummy tuck was like having another C-section, she says. "I would recommend it to anyone."

She's Patricia Heaton, and she's in Hawaii on a family vacation. More pictures here

Comments

[Perdurabo]

She's gross!

[EngineerBill]

You know Huffpo editors, You don't have to show EVERY photo you get from the tabloids. I am a red blooded heterosexual guy. (not that there is anything wrong with being gay). But really, I think we can all do without seeing a fifty year old mother of four in a bikini, don't you? As Chris Rock might say. Fifty years old, your husband's body parts, under 30 year old sports illustrated model, community body parts.

[Aslanspal]

I don't agree with her politics in fact I think she actually blogged once on huffingtonpost but My Gawd! give her some privacy....those pictures are soooo unflatering.

[stavros]

So this is news?

[cruisepuppy7452a]

Its her body, if she had this done what is the big deal? Guys, women go through a lot of crap, and sometimes, the body just doesn't snap back like it did when we were 20. Bad surjury does it, did it to me, and I say what the hell? If it can Correct something my surgeon did, I am all for it, and will get one next. She is right, if you have that kind of problem, sit ups wont' fix what she was referring to. You can diet, do all other stuff to make your body better, but if you got screwed by a bad doc, its the only way to repair that damage.
Hey, if guys accepted us warts and all, we would'n't feel the need to get this kind of stuff. The hell of it is this, we dont ask the same of you, we do accept you warts and all.

[jojojo]

"sit-ups won't fix what she was referring to"?

Why do you think she needs fixing?

[AmandaRuth]

how creepy is this women? - she wants the government to control our reproductive choices - and yet is willing to mutilate her body to be "sexy", how very very handmaidens tale.

[tkondaks]

That's the most frightening thing I've seen since the locker room scene in "Coneheads" in which we get to see Beldar Conehead's naked bottom.
I can't decide which one looks more human.

[superrobot]

CLONE!

[MelindaPost]

too bad we can't tell which male celebs have done the same.....

[NyPrincess]

Um, forget about her belly button. What the heck is going on with her hands?!!

[wmbear]

SHE'S A REPTILIAN...

Haven't you seen that Hillary/Reptilian clip on YouTube? Reptilians have hands like that.

[RedWhiteandBlueState]

You mean talons?

[eXcommunicate]

I have to admit I lul'd on that one, m8.

[happycat]

Why is she still wearing a bikini?

[jade7243]

I stopped watching Everybody Loves Raymond after she came out with the BS about Terry Schiavo and her husband. Heaton's beyond a "whack job."

[AZDemocrat500]

Give this woman a break. Let us discuee real issues like stop the censorship of my post.

[impatient]

I agree! What the heck is going on with these censors?

It USED to be true that you could post a comment at HuffPo. Yesterday I looked at an article that had 9 posted comments and 2000 waiting.

What are you people DOING?

[JohnKemp]

Exactly, which is the only reason I "stumbled upon this post" which I can only hope is "uncensored."

I finally found an "uncensored" one late yesterday, & some reasonable "conversation" followed.

Seriously, and I appeciate in advance your response, does anyone have even the foggeist notion what is going on with the main posts?

[amanda85]

"Let us discuee real issues like stop the censorship of my post."

This site is not about freedom of speech and exchange of opinions, it's about Arianna making a money hands over first from corporate fascists who don't tolerate anything that goes outside the boundaries of a very small range of opinions... She certainly doesn't want to upset them.

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."
-- Noam Chomsky

[ohiomark]

You just described the philosophy of the American left. Only accepted opinions are allowed. All others should be censored.

Thanks for finally admitting it.

[Tyrione]

An extremely modern slant on control Noam wrote. He's a member of a lustrious list of philosophers to note the same.

[GingerB]

If that's what you believe, amanda85, then why are you here? Aren't you funding the corporate fascists every time you visit this site?

[eXcommunicate]

lol, If that's what you really believe, then why wasn't your post censored just now?

[racom]

How ever much she spent she didn't get her monies worth. Watch for breaking news when she sues for really botched surgery. Then watch for counter suit, 'she didn't give me anything to work with'.

[klmebane]

why didn't she get her money's worth?? four kids, a herniated belly button, extra skin, and tons of scar tissue... that looks like a great job from where she started. her stomach is flat and her tits look perky. i wish i looked that good after having a baby.... do you think it was botched because she doesn't have a belly button?? i had a friend who was born with her intestines on the outside and she doesn't have a belly button either.... although, she isn't rich, so she still has scar tissue.

[Kim445588]

I bet she doesn't wear a bikini for all to see either.

[racom]

It is well reported that the hollywood doctors get top dollar for their work. Now, look at the photo and convince yourself that she looks good. Maybe in your neighborhood, not in hers where looks are everything.

[Kim445588]

lol. ooohh. That was so wrong. What's worse is I was laughing about it. Forgive me.

snicker.

[rpence]

Yet another woman who has internalized sexism and learned to hate her body and herself.

"Horrifying"; "A mess."

These are words that would be more fitting when applied to, let's day, Jack Black. So why aren't they?

[eXcommunicate]

I do apply those words to Jack Black, but usually for his acting. Your point is taken. ;)