The photo on the left is from right after she had a baby in 2009.
You might know Trista Sutter as the sole success story from the entire Bachelor and Bachelorette franchise. She met her husband, fireman poet Ryan Sutter, on the show in 2003 and the two had a lavish televised wedding to follow. They now have two children, son Maxwell, 5, and daughter Blakesley, 3. Trista and Ryan live a low-key life in Colorado, and Ryan works as a firefighter in Vail. You still see Trista occasionally, and she’ll endorse products and do interviews, but she usually stays out of the press. I just get a good impression of her overall. That’s why I’m disappointed to read that she had a breast lift and an eye job and that she’s going public with the news. I guess by telling Life & Style about it she pretty much had the work done for free and maybe got some cash out of it. It makes me a little sad, even though I have a “live and let live” attitude toward plastic surgery. Here’s more:
“After nursing both my kids for a year each, my boobs were deflated,” mom of two Trista Sutter, 39, reveals exclusively in the new issue of Life & Style. “And I had a droopy eye. It was something that I noticed in every picture I’ve ever taken.”
After visits with her doctor, Dr. Franklin Rose, in Houston, she decided to move forward with getting plastic surgery on her eyes and breasts — a blepharoplasty to lift her eyelids and remove the bags under her eyes, and breast augmentation with an internal lift that increased her cup size from a small B to a full C — all in one day.
“I realized that the surgery was something I had to do for myself, just for my own self-confidence and to feel good again about being in bathing suits and being intimate with my husband,” Trista, who fell in love with her husband, Ryan, on The Bachelorette, in 2003, tells the mag.
“He wanted me to be happy, so he said, ‘Whatever you need to do to make yourself happy, go for it,’” she says with a smile.
“I wanted to feel pretty again — and I do!”
For more on Trista’s surgery, her difficult recovery and all the before and after photos, pick up this week’s issue of Life & Style on newsstands now!
The print edition of Life & Style has a clearer photo, and also includes the details that she had both an upper and lower eye lift in case it’s not that clear from the text above. Also, Trista has tweeted that the “before” picture was taken when she was still nursing and her boobs were larger there than they were before she got them reshaped. The photo is from 2009, and she had her daughter that year.
I understand the urge to get new boobs, I get it occasionally although I’m chicken about getting surgery and I hate going to the doctor so I’ll probably be able to resist it. I get scared just going to a new hairdresser, I can’t imagine trusting someone with my face. You want to avoid the possibility that a doctor could mess up how you look forever. (I recently had a hairdresser mess up my eyebrows and I was traumatized.) That said, I will probably get Botox at some point. I’m not going to front like I haven’t thought about it.
So I understand why Trista got this done, and I’m glad she’s happy with the results. (Which are hard for us to see, given how small the photos are and the fact that they’re Photoshopped anyway.) But I get the impression that this beautiful woman is giving the message that she needed plastic surgery to feel better about herself. This is not Heidi Montag-levels of plastic surgery delusion, but it’s enough for us to say “huh, maybe I should try that too.” That makes it more insidious.
I think this is Trista after her surgery, but I’m not sure. This photo is from Twitter:
This photo is from 2011. I really don’t see how she needs an eyelift, she looks great.
With Ryan in 2011:
photo credit: WENN.com
Good for her! She looks fantastic and she obviously feels great about it. I would do it in a heartbeat.
I’m 43. I’ve wanted a boob lift for years. Sometimes gravity is cruel. Sometimes your genes are cruel. Good for her! She looks good, not overdone.
I seem to recall she had trouble being intimate and close to Ryan…like she had never had an orgasm, even by herself, kind of thing and wasn’t interested in sex. I could be wrong, but that’s what I remember from all those years ago.
I think she may have bigger problems than just needing a little mommy pick me up. She’s totally adorable, I wish she could see what we all see when we look at her.
Wow! Talk about over sharing. Who would make those sort of proclaimations to the public? I bet her husband never heard the end of that one. How sad for her and how embarrassing for him.
I think it refreshing and honest of her. Too many people in Hollywood pretend they don’t do anything and it’s nice to hear someone being honest.
She said she’d never had a vaginal orgasm with a man – she had had “the other kind”. Kept trying to explain it, and it was just TMI.
Anyway, she was the most paranoid and self-involved person I’d seen on tv up to that point. Which, a dozen years later, is not remarkable anymore. She was reeeeally uptight in the Batchelor show.
So up tight she couldn’t have a vaginal orgasm! Lol! 🙂
Her right eye is droopy. I work in an Operating Theatre doing Plastics and Ophthalmics every day and I can see it straight away.
I also want new boobs after breastfeeding my two children for 15 months each. I want to have a breast reduction and lift so that they actually sit where they are meant to. It’s not actually breastfeeding that causes sagging breasts but pregnancy itself.
If it has given her self esteem a boost then good on her, she isn’t hurting anyone by having these procedures done. She doesn’t look like she’s gone overboard which is nice to see.
So what if her “right eye is droopy”? Geesh.
Uh, that was the reasoning behind the procedure? That’s “so what.”
I wasn’t stating it as a nasty thing, I specialise in this area every day, Celebitchy wrote that they couldn’t see any droopiness and I was just stating that it was indeed droopy.
I don’t care what people do with their faces, I have botox every 8 months to the frown line between my eyebrows, I’m not sitting here judging anyone.
My advice to you is to read other peoples comments properly before you jump in…
I know everyone says its not breast feeding that causes saggy boobs but I don’t understand it. Supposedly breast growth then shrinkage causes breasts to sag right? When you nurse your breasts fill up with milk then you feed the baby and they deflate. And you do this several times a day. I think they just say breast feeding doesnt cause saggy boobs so women won’t be discouraged from doing it. That’s my theory anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptosis_(breasts) Here is a good explanation of sagging breasts (Ptosis).
Thanks for the link. Don’t get me wrong I know pregnancy has a lot to do with it since most women gain a lot of weight and a cup size or two, then lose it afterwards. And your milk comes in anyway, regardless if you breast feed or not, which stretches out your breasts. And the hormones too… But I just don’t see how breastfeeding isn’t supposed to be a factor, since you’re inflating and deflating them several times a day. I think it gets swept under the rug.
I miss my breastfeeding boobs. I finally filled out an A cup!
I don’t see the harm in getting a boob job to make things perkier if they become droopy during and after pregnancy. If such things happened to my boobs I will definitely consider getting one.
Me too. I’m going to wait until I’ve had all the kids I plan to have, then get my tubes tied, my boobs done, a tummy tuck, and a nether-regions pick-me-up. Might as well, and there’s no point in doing it if you’re going to have babies and wreck the work.
Give some serious thought to that tubal ligation. I have a friend who’s had some pretty terrible side effects as a result of the procedure, including a period that lasts 15-18 days out of every month. She also experiences vaginal dryness and decreased sex drive.
http://www.tubal.org/symptoms_of_pts.htm
eh – ever heard of a bra?? She wanna go braless with big boobs or what?
No, but she may not want to play hackey sack with her tits either. Yes, it’s a bit of an overexaggeration, but we feel the way we do about certain body parts cuz we just do. Let her have perky tits if she wants to!
I don’t see where she needed an eye lift, but if she fixed what was bothering her and STOPS, good for her. Hopefully she doesn’t become one of those people who does more and more.
I tend to think that if someone does this kind of thing before 40, then they’re going to look like Jackie Stallone one day.
Hello! YES!
Really? I usually feel the exact opposite! I think if people get subtle things done when they’re young, the surgery will have “settled” by the time they’re older – so you see the benefits without the freakiness of “so-and-so’s jowls are now pinned behind her ears.”
She looks great! I like surgeries where it is not obvious you had something done.
Her post-eye lift eyes look a little weird. What was wrong with them before?? I’m not a fan of breast surgery (it’s major surgery, people, and needs to be redone every decade or so), but body issues are tough and personal so to each her own.
Well I’m 29 and I wouldnt get an eye lift, but I see why women of all ages get boob jobs. Mine are the flattest, most lopsided pancakes ever and I want to fix that. if she feels that way about her eyes, though, then she has the right to do the same thing there, too. But yeah alot of those women imagine problems that arent really there or dont know when to stop.
I’m 43 and I won’t ever do it. My boobs are not what they were before kids, but as the above post said it is major surgery that needs to be redone.
I’ve had two surgeries and gotten sepsis twice. It has a 30% mortality rate, so my body agrees to no more surgeries. My mom had a facelift and it got all infected down into her neck and she had to be redone twice.
She will never look the same, she looks worked over to me with huge boobs. It weirds me out. I say go for it if you need, but a great bra and some retinols do wonders!
Not judging, I just don’t think it is for me, though I’d love perky boobs again…I can just see me getting sepsis and rejecting the implants. My cousins body did that, though she had reconstruction for cancer.
I’ve had 3 major surgeries too. (2x open heart and 1x arterial bypass in the leg). So I’m not afraid of surgeries and I am aware of how risky they are. Actually these are reasons why I want corrections- the lack of blood flow on one side of my body and the maming of my chest have contributed to the wierd chest that I have now LOL
From your photo you look beautiful and I’m sure your chest does not detract from that at all! 🙂 I’m sorry you have had to have those surgeries. I’ve seen so many friends boobs–ones with kids and without–and they’re ALL so different and unique.
Mine are deflated too after nursing two kids for two years each. Sometimes I get bummed but my boyfriend seems to love ’em so oh well.
Teehee – I also have tiny lopsided boobs (one A, one AA). I spent years obsessing over them until I asked my friends.
They’d never noticed the lopsidedness and would “rather have a small amount of something real than a lot of something fake.”
I also have 11 scars over my body. I call them my victory marks
We’re none of us perfect 🙂
Teehee you look so beautiful from your photo! But most important you sound beautiful from the inside xox
She looks good and you can tell she feels more confident. I say why not? If u feel insecure about a certain body part and you have the money to get it done then by all means do it. But everything in moderation. Doing 16 procedures like heidi montag is too much!
Can’t wait to pop out baby number two, nurse for a year, and then do the boobs. If you’ve never had children, I don’t think it’s fair to comment on this one! The amount of shrinkage/ droopage is insane, and mine went from a small perky B to a full C to a pancake A! It is so sad looking. I just want to be a nice B again. And my friends with big boobs who have kids?? Everyone’s heard the phrase “rocks in a sock,” right?
The eyes? Meh, I couldn’t tell if you hadn’t told me, and that’s a good thing. She seems normal. She’ll stop now.
I understand why she got the eye lift. One of my eyes has done that for awhile. Eyeliner smudges on the top fold of skin (the droopy part) and you can never see the eye shadow. I went from an a cup to small c cup cohesive gel implants after kids. Love them! I can wear mommy clothes and minimize them or wear a pushup bra and go out with my hubby. Looks like she did the same.
I’ve been wanting to get cohesive gel implants myself…it’s good to hear that you’re loving the results!
I understand why she did this. She was missing the attention and time in the spotlight.
ITA. She definitely has a famewhore streak in her, and she has always gotten on my nerves, going back to the original Bachelor. I watched their wedding on TV and it was a cheesy, over-the-top, pink nightmare. That said, I don’t blame her for having the surgeries. She looks good.
She got on my nerves too! Remember how she talked in a little baby voice ALL OF THE TIME?
That was my impression as well – the expression in new eyes makes her look Bethenny Frankel scary and also looks like she got her teeth done as well.
I remember her baby voice, most definitely. “Oh, Chaaaaaarlie!”…the way she talked to her 1st runner-up on The Bachelorette…gag me. I also remember reading an interview with her (I know, why punish myself like that?) after she had her first kid, and she was so freakin’ dramatic about her complications, like she almost died. Bitch, I had the exact same complications you had, and for a much longer portion of my pregnancy, and you don’t hear me complaining or acting like I’m the first woman to ever deal with severe preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome. So shut up!!! Sorry, didn’t mean to rant and go off topic. She has just always pissed me off.
Couldn’t agree more. I was super into that season of Bachelorette and I really thought Ryan was too good for her. I was SHOCKED when she chose him and they lasted. Their televised wedding was ridiculous (dogs dressed up coming down the aisle!) AND a cash-cow. They made $3 million from ABC on that!!
Recently, a blind came out that intimated the only “successful couple” from that franchise had already been in a fledgling relationship before the start of the show so it was a total set-up. probably them, no?
Anyway, so childish and immature on my part but after having had a major crush on Ryan I see that picture and I think “meh” now.
I have mention before, I have a large extended family of females whom have all had their eyes done. And mini face lifts.
So I understand why so many women have them done. It is amazing how much a eye lift can change the whole look of your face.
And if you have done a lot of sunning in your 20’s and 30’s… it really does show around your eyes.
So I am never going to be judgy about any girl wanting to do some tweaks to keep the face in check.
So as long as you never look like this…
http://goo.gl/Wq6m0
I say go for it!
Hmm. I’m 45 and recently I’ve been hearing “you look so tired,” when I’m not at all. I was thinking I needed to gets my brows waxed more often and step up the eye makeup a bit. A lift is tempting but I’m honestly afraid to go down that route.
Honestly, if I ever decided to do anything to my face… it would be the upper eye lift. I don’t have bags under my eyes. But my upper eyes/brows are holding up so far. *knock on wood*
But I am not spook about having it done. And I know to hunt down the best doctor available. I would never ever bargain hunt for a plastic surgeon.
And this is something I watched the other day… which I love her showing off her new rested eyes…
http://goo.gl/WfK4C
She looks the same except that her eyelid isn’t so droopy.
If she stops here and stays away from the other procedures than I don’t see the problem. Now doing it for Life and Style? Ick.
I saw this in Inside Edition and I thought her eye looked worse after the surgery. Anyway I don’t begrudge her for wanting to do something that made herself feel better. I’m only 25 but there are a 3 surgeries that I have been wanting for years to feel better about myself, including a boob lift from having my daughter. I’m not having anymore kids plus i never really had perky boobs anyway so it would be nice to experience that. Except the thought of beig operated on and being in pain scares me I’m willing to suck it up for a confidence boost.
Cumberbatch!
I think Trista looks really good. She didn’t overdo it, just subtle tweaking, and I’ll bet she feels better about herself after getting the work done. We all have something about ourselves that we’d like to change, and good for her for making those changes.
At least she’s honest about it. To each his own.
Well good for her! And if I have kids and mine are hanging low by the time they’re done breastfeeding, the doctor’s office will be the first place I visit for a lift. No need to call anything insidious when she feels good about herself.
In the top pic who is the woman on the left? That doesn’t look like Trista at all did I miss something? Sidenote—I go for my booby consultation next week.
I don’t see anything wrong with it. My boobs after having my son aren’t exactly what I would like them to be. They lost a bit of perk. So I can only imagine if I have another child what they would look like. I also have hooded eyes and as I’ve aged they’ve gotten a bit droopier and my bags have gotten a bit worse. So if I had the money I would certainly do an eyelift in like 10 years or so.
I don’t think this is bad. If I had the money I’d be getting sucked and tucked and lifted after I had kids too
I don’t think this is bad. If I had the money I’d be getting sucked and tucked and lifted after I had kids too.
Anything to stay relevant, I guess. I think she looked better before. Whatever’s going on with her hair now, it’s unflattering and giving her horse-face.
She looks great! I noticed the eye right away. If its bugged her for years then all the power to her. And after two kids I don’t blame her about the boobs one bit.
Every time I think about having surgery, I think about one of my friends’ neighbors. She and her husband desperately wanted to have a child, went through years of IVF and finally they had a beautiful little girl. Six months after giving birth, she went in for a tummy tuck, got an infection and died a week later.
I don’t think I’m willing to risk my life to look better in a bathing suit.
That said, I think Trista (and someone like Christie Brinkley) look FANTASTIC!!!
I’m just chicken!
That is very very sad – Kanye Wests mom and author Olivia Goldsmith also passed away from plastic surgery – not worth the price.
Mmmm-hmmm…blah, blah, very nice…but more pics of that Ryan…
preferably uniformed please.
firemen rule! lol 😛
As I recall she was freaked out about being naked in front of her husband after the birth of their first child and couldn’t wait to get the baby weight off, she was pretty obsessed about it. I think this might be the tipping point for her.
Oh, and I had a breast reduction 5 years ago – smartest thing I ever did (aside from dumping my ex). Clothes now fit properly, I can wear a bathing suit without spilling out of it, my neck and shoulders don’t hurt anymore. It took 1/2 day, I was home from work for a week and didn’t even need pain killers. I highly recommend it if your boobs are causing you grief.
This whole thing is making me sad……I get why people have work done and to each her own blah blah blah. I’m just bummed that no one can accept themselves as they are anymore. Did my boobs look better 10 years ago? Yeah, sure. My eyes did too. But why do people think they have to change everything about themselves to meet some ideal?
Plus, all these surgically enhanced women make my natural self look worse 😉
What do you mean by “I’m just bummed that no one can accept themselves as they are anymore”? Do you really think that people used to accept themselves as they were any more than people do now? They didn’t. There are so many ways that people changed or hid what they didn’t like about their bodies before plastic surgery; it’s fascinating really.
Plastic surgery is relatively new, the desire to change one’s appearance is not. It’s important to remember that.
I have natural D’s, I’m so afraid of what they are going to look like after I have kids and breast feed. I really don’t want to have to get surgery. Anyone have any good tips for keeping the boobies in good shape?
About the only thing you can do is ensure the musculature underneath the boobs is good, so push-ups (not the bra type!) and pec flies will help somewhat to prevent drooping. However I was an E cup and with that kind of weight gravity just takes over no matter how much you exercise!
Well, I have natural D’s too. I did not breastfeed, and my son is 21.
I didn’t breastfeed because I knew so many people who tried it and had problems. And (selfishly) I did not want my boobs to deflate and look awful. My boobs are still not that saggy, and still look pretty decent and I am 47.
I know breastfeeding is great, but there is nothing wrong with NOT doing it….
She looks good, I think, but she looks really good in the last photo. The boob job I understand; I went from a full C to a droopy B after I breastfed my second child and I wish I had the same chest as before. As for the eyes, I know age augments anything that droops with the loss of collagen. With an upper eye droop, as you age, it can start to impede your vision. I had a boss who had it done for that reason and since they were going for the eyes anyway, she told them to go ahead and remove the bags under as well.
I still can’t get over how stupid her daughter’s name is.
Have never liked her. Find this pathetic.
I’m 46…my eyes are starting to droop at the corners and don’t get me started about my boobs after two kids also.
but I’m not famous……so I will deal.
Didn’t think that this chick was famous either, but whatever. She’s trying to stay relevant I suppose.
She looks great, her boobs were not overdone. At least she’s being up front and honest about it. No judgement here – especially since I’m a nursing mom of 16 month old and my eyelids are drooping. I’m sure I will be next in line lol.
After nursing my 2nd baby (16 months each) I asked my husband if I can have a tummy tuck & breast lift for my 40th birthday. He looked at me like I was crazy, but said if it would make me happy then sure. I’m now 6mos preggo with #3 and at 33yrs old my body sure ain’t what it used to be. I’m even more motivated to tighten up a couple areas now. I’m deathly afraid of messing with my face, tho.
I’m glad she had the plastic surgery. She looks younger. She was starting to look aged. It turned out very well.
If you feel you need an eye lift, rhinoplasty, or something like that then go for it. It can enhance your well being and lasts (depending on procedure) for almost a life time. I would rather invest in something like that that makes me happy than expensive vacations.
No judgement here. At 26 and the mother of one I have the breasts of a 60 year old. I plan on having a lift as soon has the hubby and I are done having kids.
To be honest, I could have sworn this will be televised also.
she’s just like all of the rest of em, but she’s on a smaller scale of attentionwhoring.
her stomach/belly button looks pooched too.
Yeah, I could see the wonky eye, its just the need to tell the world or have it televised that makes it all icky and assuming.
why do they have to come back, once you’ve subjected us to all of that trash on tv–just go into oblivion PLEASE!
this means that the blonde fake chick we just had to stomach will NEVER go away 🙁
In the last picture, the one w/her husband, she’s carrying a FAKE Louis Vuitton! The letters are upside down.
So?
In my opinion the purpose of carrying a designer logo is announce you are if a certaIn stature & that u can! This fake
bag along w/this public announcement re:surgery Tells me that they are all a fake
FYI. They DID NOT meet on the show, they were already together for 1 year prior to the show filming. I.E. cast on the show to make sure there would be a good outcome.
I read that too, but I’m skeptical. She was the reject from the first Bachelor, so how could they have dated for a year?
what?!? really, how do you know? I believe it but.. just curious
I always thought she was as gorgeous as any Hollywood actress.
I also thought she was the most sincere of all the contestants on these bachelor tv shows: she really did want to get married, just like she said.
sadly if you follow Trsita on twitter she is very opionated & don’t challenge her. She wants to always be right. I have definatley changed my opinion pf TRista.. She also can have an acid tounge or two faced while watching the show then sucks up after.. Her & Natalie Getz are very hypocritical. they used to be two of my favourites. I now follow neither. THings are never up for conversation
I don’t do Twitter, but what is she opinionated about? Just curious.
*not an oxymoron, a redundancy. A flaming redundancy.
I watched someone get that same eyebrow procedure on wednesday. It’s really not that big of a deal…you can do with out going under.
Can’t lift the crazy out of those Michele Bachmannesque crazyeyes.
Am I the only one who thinks she looks better in the first picture (blue suit)?
just saying
This all seems so weird to me. Everyone’s going “Oh, good for her! I want to have this-and-this done as well!” Why wouldn’t you want to age gracefully? (And really, she’s only 39 so she shouldn’t be having a fear of aging yet.) Why would you want to look plastic and the same as everyone else? Everyone *will* know you’ve had surgery.
I guess it’s a different culture. I’m in Europe, and to me this is just sad. If your self-esteem is dependent on one droopy eyelid, how are you ever going to be happy? You will always find other places you need to fix, when the real thing you should be fixing is inside you. Mind you, I’m not saying you shouldn’t have ever have plastic surgery after an accident or something, just that to get surgery because of something so minor as eyelids is so strange. I would be embarrassed if people found out I had such low confidence in myself that I had to resort to surgery. I would definitely not tell about it in a magazine. Yep, it’s a different culture.
Please don’t lump me in with this craziness. I would never go under the knife for this kind of frivolous BS. She is sad and insecure and I think it’s tragic that her self-worth depends on the perkiness of her breasts or the droopiness of her eyelid. I don’t applaud her choice and it makes me sad that others want to mutilate their bodies like this. Not everyone in America is like her.
At the age of 43, I have come to the conclusion that aging *gracefully* is the real challenge in our society. Nobody wants to get old, and living in the U.S. gives you lots of options – maybe too many.
To want to fight the ravages of aging is only natural – however, people who succumb to the natural impulse to cheat time too many times often end up looking very unnatural indeed.
For the time being I am sticking to wearing sunblock and trying to get enough sleep as my anti-aging weapons.
However if Trista can stop at these two (three?) procedures, then I say good for her! The After photo looks great – however the danger is that she will keep getting more and more work done, and will end up with a jacked face.
Knowing when to stop with cosmetic surgery procedures seems to be the key…and starting as young as 39 is a bit of a flag.
Age doesn’t count when it comes to boobs! She has children! Your boobs change from the weight gain/loss, the milk production and nursing, if you choose to do that. I think it is great that she got one – and they look very natural – not oversized nor bolt-ons!
I think if someone wants a nip and tuck, that’s great. If I had money, I would fix some things. It just seems a little desperate to use Erica Rose’s plastic surgeon Dad for the surgery then announce it with a tabloid spread. That’s the real issue here! She probably got the surgery heavily discounted to use Rose and then got paid a lot for the photos. Just seems desperate. And her eyes kind of have the constant “surprised” look.
I too have wanted a boob job/lift since I had my son 10 years ago and I’ve always wanted a nose job since I have a bump from falling on the curb when I was a child. BUT I too am chicken about having major surgery for no other reason than vanity. I used to work with a great plastic surgeon who had an eyelift by another surgeon who botched it! If he didn’t have good luck finding a decent surgeon what chance do I have?? Just can’t get past that. I think Trista looks great, not overdone.
I dont know what she’s talking about, but beauty comes in a universal languange