I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. I will say that stars generally check into hospitals under pseudonyms and never want it to be known it’s for cosmetic purposes - although in Joan’s case the cat is obviously out of the bag, lol. I remember when Streisand had her face done, she walked around LA wearing a beekeeper’s veil!
As a friend of mine once replied when I asked if a certain star had plastic surgery: “Either that, or a childhood fire.”
I have always like Joan Rivers comedy and the other day I was trying to remember what her original face looked like. I could not.
It’s funny, old-time actresses I used to see (whose careers dated to the 1920s-40s) invariably aged into fairly nice-looking, normal, little old ladies. You don’t see that anymore. Thanks to plastic-surgery, the modern senior-class of veteran actresses all seem to look like strange mutants... stretched faces, deeply-dyed hair, and wearing clothes styles designed for girls in their 20s.