Happy birthday Reba! The queen of country turned 70, and in pictures posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, the age-defying celebrity looked unbelievably great. The post showed a young Reba McEntire with a mountain of her signature red curls and a wide smile next to photo of her present day self, which had her looking much younger than seven decades old. But the current photo also fueled rumors of plastic surgery, with one user on X posting, “She looks better now than she did back then.” But even if McEntire has gotten a little work done, reactions turned into a parade of compliments paying respect to the country music queen, most saying that she looked amazing at 70 years old.
Happy 70th birthday to the iconic Reba McEntire. pic.twitter.com/szGIsvO9eG
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) March 28, 2025
McEntire has had plenty to say about her plastic surgery rumors, and even gave it a sideways approval in a 2009 interview with OK!. McEntire first said, “I don’t do Botox,” adding, “I just don’t do it. Everybody else can, it’s fine with me. I don’t. It’s botulism, so I didn’t want to put that in my body.” But the most revealing part of her answer was her saying, “I think plastic surgery’s great if that’s what you want to do.” In 2023, The U.S. Sun spoke with plastic surgeon Dr. Richard Westreich who gave his professional opinion that, “Over the years she may have had a rhinoplasty, brow lift, and upper lid lift, as well as a facelift and fat transfer.”
McEntire has made it through a messy divorce
However, in the reactions to Reba McEntire’s birthday photo, one user got us thinking about the man who had the gall to leave her, calling McEntire “A single mom who never quits.” McEntire notably became single in 2015, when Page Six reported that McEntire was getting a messy divorce from her manager and husband of 26 years Narvel Blackstock. A source told Page Six that “It was a bombshell. No one saw it coming.” And to twist the knife further, Blackstock soon after began dating Laura Putty Stroud, a real estate agent who was a friend of both Blackstock and McEntire. And that’s not to mention just how much money McEntire lost in the divorce.
But being the icon that she is, McEntire soon found herself a new beau in “CSI: Miami” actor Rex Linn, with People reporting that she met him while quarantining during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 (what a time to meet). With the two still going strong, and McEntire looking better than ever at the still-young age of 70, we can’t help but wonder if her ex Blackstock is spending her birthday wondering if he made a terrible mistake in letting her go. We may never know, but we do agree with the user on X who responded to her birthday pic by posting “Reba’s age is just a number, unlike her impact.”
