Overview
- Hathaway told ELLE on May 21–22 that she did not have a facelift and that a hairstylist’s hidden braids produced the lifted effect people noticed.
- She said the online conversation became so loud and distracting that she felt she needed to “get your truth out there” rather than let false assumptions stand.
- The Instagram clip showed her stylist place two small braids at her temples and pull them back to create more facial lift, which Hathaway demonstrated as a simple styling trick.
- Hathaway declined to call the post a “pointed denial,” argued that facelifts are “huge medical decisions” people were wrongly presuming about her, and said she might still choose surgery someday.
- The exchange highlights how short social videos can shape public perception of celebrities’ faces and shows Hathaway pushing back on intrusive medical assumptions as she promotes The Devil Wears Prada 2.