MS Now host Molly Jong-Fast reveals she had a face and neck lift
MS Now host Molly Jong-Fast reveals she had a face and neck lift
Connor McCroryThu, August 13, 2026 at 12:39 AM UTC
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Molly Jong-Fast says cosmetic surgery has become part of the reality of working on television -Credit:MS Now
Molly Jong-Fast says cosmetic surgery has become part of the reality of working on television, and she does not regret choosing it for herself.
The writer and MS NOW commentator, 47, disclosed in a New York Times essay published Wednesday that she underwent a face- and neck-lift "a few months after" her birthday last August. She used the experience to examine aging, feminism, and the pressure women face over appearance.
Jong-Fast traced some of those tensions to her childhood and her mother, writer Erica Jong, whose Manhattan home drew prominent feminist figures. "Many of the feminists who populated my mother’s narrow townhouse - Andrea Dworkin, Betty Friedan, and Phyllis Chesler among them - did not believe in molding themselves into something different for men’s delectation," she wrote. The news follows Fox News halting for breaking news as Karoline Leavitt quits her White House role.
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She described Jong as a "pro-sex" feminist, "which of course meant keeping herself appealing enough for men to want to have sex with her."
"To preserve that status, she had a facelift in her 50s." Jong-Fast wrote that "our looks shape our livelihoods, our romantic prospects," and even women's "visibility."
"In response to that, my mother and these women were each forced to make a choice."
She described Jong as a "pro-sex" feminist -Credit:YouTube
The essay framed the surgery not as a rejection of feminism, but as a response to professional pressures on women.
Her own decision followed a consultation with "a disarmingly young-looking plastic surgeon." He told her, "The bottom half of your face looks older than the top half of your face," she remembered.
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"A few months later, I was rolled into an operating room for a deep plane face- and neck-lift."
"He made me better looking, and I don’t regret it," Jong-Fast said, adding that she did not think it made her "a bad feminist."
"I never quite bought into the idea that the best response to a culture that would exclude women from public view if they didn’t look young or pretty enough was to spurn it."
The essay framed the surgery not as rejection of feminism -Credit:Getty
"My face, for instance, is directly connected to my livelihood."
Jong-Fast said she discusses "politics on TV for a living." She also hosts the political podcast "Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast."
"What I did to my face isn’t that unusual; I’d argue that it’s actually the norm for women on TV these days."
"We’re all on screens more and more, whether we’re grown-ups taking Zoom meetings or young influencers who have to feed the TikTok beast."
She closed by arguing that cosmetic procedures are unlikely to disappear and that women should be more open about undergoing them.
"Plastic surgery isn’t going away. My daughter will have to make this choice one day, too," she wrote.
"We must be transparent about the treatments we receive and stop shaming others about their choices."
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