In 2020, Eva Mendes shared an Instagram photo of herself that was quite disturbing: She had seven long needles jabbed into the skin below her chin. She revealed that she was getting a mono-thread procedure from a friend, Dr. Marina Vergara. Mendes jokingly described the dermatologist’s clinic as “A home where you can relax while being tortured by the best of the best.”
Vergara told People that a mono-thread lift is performed using needles and dissolvable threads that the body eventually absorbs. In addition to tightening the skin, the threads promote collagen production. However, Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Deepak Raj Dugar suggested that laser treatments are more effective at firming up skin on the neck. “Threads in the neck are much less studied and don’t have widely confirmed evidence of much effect,” he told Real Self.
The area of Mendes’ face that social media users fixated on after her “Today” appearance was not her neck but her cheeks. Mendes doesn’t even walk red carpets with her husband, Ryan Gosling, anymore after she quit acting to be a stay-at-home mom, which is something she discusses in her interview. But one fan feared that her decision to shun the spotlight is also linked to people commenting on her appearance. “The way y’all talking about Eva Mendes’s face … she bout to go back into her hole and we ain’t gonna see her again for another 10 years,” they tweeted.
