Dramatic new images created by artificial intelligence have imagined what television personality Sharon Osbourne would look like today if she had never undergone any cosmetic surgery.
The AI-Generated Vision of a Natural Sharon
The AI was instructed to analyse photos of a younger Sharon Osbourne and predict how she would appear at the age of 73 if she had aged completely naturally. The results present a strikingly different vision from the star's actual current appearance. Osbourne, now 73 and the wife of the late rock legend Ozzy Osbourne, has been remarkably open about the extensive cosmetic procedures she has undertaken over the decades.
Her surgical history is extensive, including a gastric band, multiple facelifts, a tummy tuck, an eyelift, breast implants, lifts to her arms and legs, an abdominoplasty, and Botox. In her memoir, 'Unbreakable', she revealed having a facelift in 1987 and another in 2002. She once wrote a poignant reflection on the process, stating, 'Every time you go under the knife for vanity, you are slicing off yet more of your self-worth.'
A History of Surgery and Regret
Osbourne's journey has not been without significant complications and moments of regret. In 2011, she was forced to have her breast implants removed after one began leaking into her stomach wall, an experience she later described as feeling like 'a water bed laying on my chest.' By 2012, she publicly declared she was done with surgery, criticising how plastic her face looked in photographs.
However, she famously returned to the UK judging panel of The X Factor in August 2016 with a 'new face', confirming she had undergone another procedure which she likened to 'servicing a car.' This began a pattern of further interventions. In September 2019, she debuted the results of her fourth facelift on The Talk, explaining she had her neck and jowls lifted to look 'more refreshed', despite enduring pain.
Discussing the recovery on The Kelly Clarkson Show, she humorously recounted how numbness made her look like she was 'snarling' and compared her appearance to Elvis. She received another facelift in 2021, but subsequently told The Sun it had 'put me off' and frightened her, vowing it would be her last. She elaborated to The Times, saying she 'looked like a f**king Cyclops' post-operation and called it one of the 'worst things' she's ever done.
The Final Word on Going Under the Knife
Despite her long and very public relationship with cosmetic enhancement, Sharon Osbourne now appears to have reached a firm conclusion. In a 2023 statement, she definitively ruled out any further surgical procedures, acknowledging, 'Time is against me. I cannot have another facelift.' The AI-generated images offer a fascinating, and perhaps sobering, 'what if' glimpse into an alternative path the star might have taken, highlighting the profound impact of her decades-long pursuit of surgical alteration.
