Joan Rivers talked openly about going under the knife. She once told NPR that she was "very lucky" to have a friend who was a plastic surgeon. "So he would do little things," she said in early 2014. "I never had like a full thing. So I would go in maybe once every two or three years, and he'd do a little here, a little there; tweak you, like you tweak your car. Then I became the plastic surgery poster girl."
Despite her claims that she never had a "full thing" done, The Sydney Herald claimed that Rivers had rhinoplasty, at least two facelifts, and countless Botox procedures during her life. The number of procedures Rivers had done was once estimated to be 734 (via TooFab), but she claimed the number was 739, per The New York Daily News. While she later said the "739" count was a joke, Rivers did admit to getting Botox injections every five to six months.
After Rivers' death, her daughter Melissa opened up in her 2015 tell-all, 'The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief and Manipulation," to reveal that her famous mother "didn't have as much work as people think she had" (per the Washington Post). Melissa put her mom's final surgery count at 365 — still a super high number. She also explained that her mother had also been insecure about her appearance but had finally been at peace with her looks before she died.
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