Nicki Minaj Regrets Plastic Surgery After Looking Back at Old Photos: ‘I Didn’t Like the Way I Looked’

Nicki Minaj regrets some of her plastic surgery decisions.

The 40-year-old rapper admitted her regrets on Thursday’s episode of the show Checking with Vogue podcast.

“I guarantee you, if you change anything on your body and do anything surgically and all that, you will – more than likely, not definitely, more than likely – one day look back and say, ‘I was fine just the way I was ‘, Minaj told podcast hosts Chioma Nnadi and Chloe Malle.

“And that’s what happened to me,” she said. “I couldn’t believe even some of the photos I didn’t like.”

Nicki Minaj performs onstage during the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center on September 12, 2023.

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During an interview celebrating Minaj’s cover for VogueIn the November issue, the co-hosts reminded the singer of the moment she joined Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour at the Carolina Herrera Show in September 2011.

Nicki Minaj and Anna Wintour attend the Carolina Herrera Spring 2012 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at The Theater at Lincoln Center on September 12, 2011 in New York City.

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Minaj immediately told the co-hosts that she preferred not to look at older photos of herself “because I didn’t like how I looked.”

“I didn’t like being skinny, having a flat bottom, you know. Having boobs that weren’t high enough. It was a lot of things,” she continued. “And when I look back at myself now, I literally thought, ‘Oh, I’m going to look like that girl again.’ ”

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“The reason I couldn’t look back at my old photos was because I didn’t like how I looked, right, physically,” Minaj added. “And now I like how that person looks physically.”

The The “Starships” rapper explained how her decision to make changes came down to her growing public persona. Her passion for music has put her in a “very scary” environment that resembles a “fishbowl”, with “millions” of people watching, she said.

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Minaj added that welcoming her three-year-old son, popularly known as “Daddy Bear,” changed her perception of herself.

“I think the pregnancy may have played a part because seeing my son reminded me so much of myself. My true self. And I thought why didn’t I like this? So weird,” Minaj said. “But when I saw the old photos, being able to look at the old photos again, I realized, ‘These old photos are beautiful.'”

While Minaj didn’t go into detail about how she improved Voguetouched on this topic during a guest appearance on The Joe Budden Podcast in March 2022. Reflecting on the early days of her career, the rapper said she “never had surgery. I had butt shots.”

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