Heidi Montag got part of her ‘chin sawed off’ during 2009 plastic surgery overhaulĀ
Heidi Montag is reflecting on her November 2009 plastic surgery overhaul ā including getting part of her āchin sawed offā ā and how it impacted her final season of āThe Hillsā with husband Spencer Pratt.
āAt the time, my surgeon was like, āOh, it will be a quick recovery, a few months.ā And it took me over a year to heal, so I could barely talk [with] my jaw,ā the āSuperficialā singer, 37, says on Page Sixās āVirtual Reali-Teaā podcast.
āI just had part of my chin sawed off,ā she continues. āIt was really a lot just dealing with that.ā
At the age of 23, Montag notoriously underwent a whopping 10 cosmetic procedures at once ā shortly before production picked up for the sixth and final season of āThe Hills.ā
The surgeries, performed by the late Dr. Frank Ryan, included a chin reduction, updated breast augmentation, rhinoplasty revision, brow lift, liposuction, facial fat injections and pinning her ears back, among others.
āI wasnāt even in a place [to film]. And I kept saying, āIām not a person right now. I need to heal and recover and Iām not doing well physically.’ Like, Iām not able to show up like I was,ā the reality star recalls telling MTV producers.
āI thought Iād bounce back and be able to be on TV like I was after my first cosmetic surgery,ā continues Montag, who had a boob and nose job years prior. āBut there was just way too much done and each thing took too much time and it hurt so bad.ā
She adds, āI was just in such an immense amount of pain.ā
Montag ā who acknowledges that the succession of surgeries was āobviously [her] choiceā ā says she wasnāt āaware of the repercussions,ā including a near-death experience.
āThey called Spencer at a point and told him I had died basically. I wasnāt doing well,ā she says of her post-op scare.
She explains that, at one point, her heart was beating only five times per minute after she was allegedly administered the incorrect dose of the opioid Demerol for pain relief.
āWe had to have nurses at the house for months to help me recover,ā Montag says of the aftermath.
āSo weāre dealing with that and then we have these producers like, āSay this and that.ā And weāre like, āWe canāt do this.āā
The couple ā known to fans as āSpeidiā ā eventually bowed out of āThe Hillsā halfway through Season 6.
Today, though, theyāre claiming more time in the spotlight with a new podcast, āSpeidiās 16th Minute,ā part of Spotifyās The Ringer Podcast Network.
āSometimes nobody knows what is going on with the paparazzi set-up,ā Montag tells us of the project that explores the underbelly of reality TV and its impact on pop culture.
āSo itās kind of an inside scoop, too, of Hollywood ā¦ sharing that inside information that people donāt want to necessarily divulge.ā