Eiza González Plastic Surgery, The One Thing She Admitted — and Everything Fans Still Wonder About

A video of Eiza González on the Mexican talk show Hoy in 2011, calmly and without much drama, telling the host that yes, she had a nose job, she didn’t like her nose, and she decided to do something about it, has been making the rounds in the corners of celebrity discussion forums. No medical explanation. There is no deviation in the septum. Simply put, she changed her nose because she wanted it to look different. The video stands out in an entertainment industry where such candor is genuinely uncommon. The peculiar thing is that, in the fifteen years that have passed, the debate over Eiza González’s appearance has persisted, at times with great intensity.

Born in Mexico City in 1990, González started her career in 2007 as the lead in the Mexican telenovela Lola: Érase Una Vez, also known as Lola: Once Upon a Time. She quickly rose to fame in her native country. Her roles in From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Baby Driver, Alita: Battle Angel, and eventually the higher-budget action films Godzilla vs. Kong and Ambulance introduced her to American audiences. Her appearance had changed significantly from the teenager who first appeared on Mexican screens by the time she was making appearances on Hollywood red carpets, and people had begun to focus on the specifics of that change.

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The discussion’s confirmed focal point is the nose job. When looking at pictures from around 2008, when she did press in Puerto Rico and walked the Premios MTV Latinoamerica red carpet, her nose was wider and had a different bridge and tip than it does now. It was noticeably more sculpted and slimmer by the early 2010s. She acknowledged having a rhinoplasty, which is consistent with the images. There’s no real question about that. The question of whether the nose was the only factor is less clear.

When comparing older and more recent photos, it’s difficult to ignore how much her nose has changed. For those who spend time staring at it, makeup contouring alone is insufficient to explain why her lips seem significantly fuller than they did during her telenovela years. Her cheekbones are more prominent and elevated in her face. From what some have described as a squarer shape in her earlier photos, her jawline has softened. Speaking broadly about the pictures, some cosmetic physicians have proposed that fillers of some kind, such as cheek fillers or possibly implants, could explain the prominence of her cheekbones, and that Botox injections into the masseter muscle could explain the change in her jawline. Her more angular facial structure has been attributed by some to the removal of buccal fat.

It’s crucial to make it clear that none of those evaluations are from González herself. Only the nose job has been acknowledged by her. Some of the observations made by onlookers may be just the product of aging, weight fluctuations, and the significant resources available to someone in her line of work for skin treatments, lighting, and makeup. In particular, losing weight actually alters the face, making existing features appear differently in photos, hollowing out cheeks, and sharpening angles. Some of what is visible can be explained by the changes in her features between the ages of seventeen and her mid-thirties. The question is whether it explains everything, and there doesn’t seem to be a clear answer to that question.

When González revealed to InStyle in March 2024 that she had been passed over for movie roles due to her perceived attractiveness, it set off a chain reaction of comments, some of which were sympathetic and some of which were skeptical, with the question of plastic surgery intertwined. Being well-known for a beauty that she has, by her own admission, at least partially created, while also facing professional repercussions for that beauty in specific situations, is an odd situation to be in. Hollywood’s relationship with the women it casts and then evaluates based on their appearance on screen has always been complex. In that sense, González’s predicament is not special; it’s just more obvious.

Observing how this discussion has changed over time, it seems as though people are unsure of whether to respect her or feel uneasy about her metamorphosis, and both responses may be occurring at the same time. Because it was uncommon, her admission regarding the rhinoplasty was welcome. The majority of celebrities at her level continue to act as though everything is explained by good genes and lighting. For the nose job, at least, she didn’t do that. The question of whether the remaining conjecture is significant or ought to be significant is another; it likely reveals as much about the industry’s expectations for women as it does about any personal decisions she may or may not have made.