Clap clap. Standing ovation. Take a bow, Bec Judd – your timing is impeccable.
You’ve finally told the truth about your beauty secrets. How stunning, how brave, how… convenient.
Just as you launch your podcast Vain-ish, you’ve finally come out with the bombshell revelation that left precisely no one shocked.
You’ve been injecting your face for years – a revelation so awe-inspiring it warranted a cover feature with Stellar magazine.
But here’s the problem, Bec: you’re a bit late to the party. We all knew you’d had work done – because we can, quite simply, see it on your face.
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I’m not quite sure what reaction footy WAG Bec Judd expected to get by ‘coming out’ as a Botox and filler enthusiast last week. Perhaps she expected a parade?
The Queen of Brighton has transformed her appearance dramatically over the years (seen left in 2004, right in January 2025). We all knew her secret – but only now is she ready to admit it
Yes, it turns out that flawless, unblemished, practically embalmed visage of yours that us mere mortals could only dream of wasn’t actually the result of ‘Diamond Polar facials’, lashes, highlighter and exceptionally tight braids.
Instead, it was the result of a list of more invasive treatments that require the services of a skilled doctor or nurse. Well, colour me surprised!
Plenty of other – more famous – celebrities – have already jumped on this gravy train by opening up so candidly about the work they’ve had done.
Kris Jenner even gave us the name of her surgeon!
I’m not quite sure what reaction Bec expected to get by ‘coming out’ as a Botox and filler enthusiast last week. Perhaps she expected a parade? Maybe she thought we’d all praise her for being so real.
I can only speak for myself, but when her podcast press release pinged in my inbox, I literally yawned. I mean, it was hardly Lance Armstrong admitting he was a drug cheat – at least he had a few true believers left.
But after my boredom subsided, I sat with this groundbreaking knowledge that, yes, Bec Judd likes needles. And, to my surprise, I became quite angry about it all.
Because for years – decades! – you denied it. Or at least dodged the question.
So, Bec Judd has been injecting her face for years – a revelation so awe-inspiring it warranted a cover feature with Stellar magazine
Plenty of other celebrities have already jumped on the ‘cosmetic candour’ gravy train
And, from what I can see, you never sought to correct the record when magazines ran arse-kissing stories – like this one from Who – peddling the narrative that those rumours of cosmetic work were ‘absolutely not true!’
The real kicker for me was those beauty ‘hacks’ you came up with to divert our attention from the obvious truth staring us in the face.
My personal favourite was the time you said your ‘fox eye’ look was just your hair stylist doing really tight braids and pulling them back to make you appear more taut.
Bec, the only thing being pulled was our legs!
(And, for what it’s worth, that little beauty trick is called a ‘Croydon facelift’ where I’m from – and those young ladies don’t look anywhere near as polished as you…)
But oh, how we believed you. Imagine how many of your followers wept when they tried the braids method and realised at the end that they still looked tired and wrinkled – only with a migraine-inducing ponytail.
Back in 2018, Daily Mail spoke to a plastic surgeon who suggested, after studying before and after photos, that you may have had ‘a fat transfer’ and ‘cosmetic fillers’.
That was seven years ago! Even after an expert weighed in on the blindingly obvious, you spent seven years preaching the mantra of good sleep, Pilates and skincare.
Meanwhile, the rest of us were squinting in our bathroom mirrors, wondering why our fine lines weren’t disappearing after using a hair scrunchie and a contouring stick from Priceline.
It turns out Bec’s flawless, unblemished, practically embalmed visage wasn’t actually the result of ‘Diamond Polar facials’, lashes, highlighter and exceptionally tight braids
Bec’s new podcast is strategic self-interest dressed up as honesty, writes Amanda Goff
As you launched your podcast last week with your BFF Jess Roberts, you declared it was ‘time to stop gaslighting women’ and that we should all ‘get real’.
‘I’m 42 and don’t have a line on my face. I’m telling you it’s not because I get eight hours’ sleep a night, all right?’ she said, like she’d only just realised it herself.
The I’m-just-like-you act continued as she confessed she sometimes does the school run in her pyjamas, that she wore ‘hair extensions’ on her wedding day, and that the paps once followed her to a Botox clinic so she had to drive home jab-free. Meanies!
I mean, doesn’t that happen to all of us?
After all that humble-bragging, after more than a decade of passing it off as ‘good genes’, you really expect us now to applaud you for being relatable?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not blaming you personally, Bec. I love that you’re finally getting ‘real’ and being open about your cosmetic work. Better late than never.
(And speaking of which, having recently moved to Melbourne, I’m keen to know who does your work because it’s honestly bloody brilliant.)
‘After all that humble-bragging, after more than a decade of passing it off as “good genes”, you really expect us now to applaud you for being relatable?’ asks Amanda
But I’m a media-savvy girl, too, and I know opportunism when I see it. You saw the tide turning towards cosmetic candour and decided it was time to come clean – and cash in.
I won’t judge. In my time, I’ve shamelessly seized many opportunities to promote my businesses or books. I’ve spilled my secrets when I needed to flog something.
Hell, if I had a beauty podcast to promote like you, I’d be name-dropping every nurse or procedure I’d ever had to get listeners and sponsors – maybe even a free facelift.
But there’s something about hearing these ‘confessions’ come from you in particular, Bec, that feels like a real kick in the teeth.
For years, it seems you credited your beauty to everything but Botox and filler. Now, you have basically announced that was a little white lie (oops!) and you want to create a ‘safe space’ for women to speak honestly about beauty treatments.
Your PR team can spin it however they like, but I don’t think that’s brave or bold. I’m going to call it what it is: strategic self-interest dressed up as honesty.
And I don’t think we’ll hear you coming clean about that little secret on your podcast.
