By Wonderwall.com Editors
11:29am PDT, Aug 19, 2019
Celebrities often go under the knife for a little enhancement, and rappers are no exception. Some of hip-hop music's biggest stars have decided to nip and tuck a few things over the years. Wonderwall.com is taking a look at a few of those pro-plastic-surgery rappers, starting with Cardi B. The mother of one got breast implants as a 20-year-old stripper and soon added butt injections and new teeth to her list of work. After welcoming daughter Kulture in 2018, Cardi decided she was due for a mommy makeover. Keep reading to see how it turned out…
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During an interview with "Entertainment Tonight" in May 2019, Cardi B revealed that she'd had another breast augmentation post-baby. "I just got my boobs redone," she said. "I feel good, but then sometimes I feel like not, you know? [When] your skin is stretched out." She debuted her updated look at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards.
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Cardi B wasn't done with her post-baby body yet. In May 2019, the Bronx rapper announced at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, Tennessee, that she had recently undergone liposuction. "I have some news for y'all. I should have canceled today," she told the audience. "I shouldn't really be performing because moving too much is gonna f— up my lipo." Cardi opened up about her changing body seven weeks after she gave birth to Kulture in 2018. "I still feel like I got a lot of love handles right here," she said on Instagram Live while pulling on her stomach. "It's not much but it's like — I'm used to having, like, a real tight stomach."
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When Lil' Kim first hit the scene in the early '90s, she was a petite natural beauty. The New York rapper — seen here in 1999 — felt like she could use some upgrades, however, and decided to go under the knife…
Lil' Kim had her first plastic surgery procedure — breast implants — in the late '90s. "That surgery was the most pain I've ever been in in my life," she told Newsweek in 2000. "But people made such a big deal about it. White women get them every day. It was to make me look the way I wanted to look. It's my body." She's pictured here sporting an enhanced look at the 2003 BET Awards.
By the 2010s, Lil Kim had an entirely new face. She reportedly underwent multiple nose jobs and skin bleaching procedures and got fillers and Botox injections. Kim — seen here in 2016 — explained her changing appearance during an interview with Newsweek. "Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking," she told the magazine. "You know, the long-hair type. Really beautiful women that left me thinking, 'How I can I compete with that?' Being a regular black girl wasn't good enough." Kim also told radio host Angie Martinez that she went under the knife after an abusive ex-boyfriend broke her nose.
Today, Lil' Kim — pictured here in 2018 — is happy with her new look and doesn't care what anyone has to say about it. "It don't bother me because I'm beautiful!" she told radio host Angie Martinez. "I love myself."
Nicki Minaj was missing one of her signature "assets" when she made her debut on the hip-hop scene in the aughts…
Nicki Minaj — seen here in 2015 — reportedly got butt implants but has refused to either confirm or deny the rumors. The Queens-raised rapper has, however, spoken out about whether she's had any work done on her face. "People see my makeup and they think all types of crazy things I'm doing to my skin. Like, no, it's makeup," the "Anaconda" rapper told "Extra" in 2013. "It's the weirdest thing. Like, they'll see contour and they'll think you had surgery on your nose. No, no, no, look at 'RuPaul's Drag Race' and you'll see how you can make your nose look any shape you want. I've never had surgery on my face. God, it's makeup, people."
Many celebrities choose to go under the knife for bigger breasts, but not Queen Latifah. The "U.N.I.T.Y" rapper has always had a naturally large chest, which gave her crazy back pain. In 2003, Latifah decided to do something about it…
Queen Latifah had breast reduction surgery in late 2003 after years of physical challenges. "It took me about a year and half to really do it. I didn't want to get it," she told People magazine in 2007. "But I had lost 25 pounds and my breasts didn't go anywhere! I was still carrying that load. I didn't quite want them to be this small. I was a little p—ed about that." She added that before the surgery, she was, "An E or an F cup. I was pretty big. Now I'm like a DD."
Kanye West has always cared about his image and in 2016, he quietly went under the knife — an experience that he later admitted led to an opioid addiction.
During an interview with TMZ, Kanye West revealed that he had undergone liposuction and was prescribed opioids to manage his pain during recovery. "I had plastic surgery because I was trying to look good for y'all," the rapper said in May 2018. "I got liposuction because I didn't want y'all to call me fat like y'all called Rob [Kardashian] at [my] wedding and made him fly home before me and Kim [Kardashian] got married [in 2014]. I didn't want y'all to call me fat so I got liposuction." Kanye also shared that he got off the medication just before he was hospitalized amid a mental health crisis in November 2016.
Iggy Azalea was always a pretty girl, but the Australian rapper felt like she could use some upgrades…
While chatting with Vogue in March 2015, rapper Iggy Azalea (pictured a few months later) revealed that she'd had her breasts augmented. "I'd thought about it my entire life," she said. "I decided I wasn't into secret-keeping." She added to E! News: "I love them so much I had to talk about them!" But Iggy wasn't done enhancing her look…
Iggy Azalea seemingly had surgery on her nose and chin and admitted to a nose job in early 2015, telling Seventeen magazine of the rhinoplasty rumors, "I'm not denying it. Denying it is lame." The "Fancy" rapper is also rumored to have had butt implants, but has neither confirmed nor denied that gossip. She showed off her new bod and refined facial features at an event in Las Vegas on July 26, 2019.
Blac Chyna, seen here with ex Tyga in late 2011, began her career as an exotic dancer before transitioning into the beauty business and, more recently, rapping. The mother of two is well known for her trademark dimples, which she "encouraged" with facial piercings, she told talk show host Wendy Williams. "When I took them out I was like, 'Oh man, now I got dimples!'" she said in May 2019. Chyna's cheeks aren't they only thing she's modified over the years…
Blac Chyna opened up about her numerous plastic surgeries while chatting with talk show host Wendy Williams in May 2019. "I've had lipo before, I've had my breasts done four times," she said, explaining that she had breast surgeries to make her chest bigger as well as smaller. (At one point, she said, "I was like, 'This is just too much.'") Chyna also revealed that she had liposuction on her famous bottom after she gave birth to her second child, Dream Kardashian, in 2016. "I went and got something done. I got lipo because after I had Dream, it was like, out of control. So I had some of it taken out," Chyna, seen here in 2018, explained.
No Face rapper Ed Lover always looked fresh in the '90s. The former MTV VJ, pictured here with Larenz Tate and "Yo! MTV Raps" co-host Doctor Dré in 1994, underwent a small tweak in the 2000s….
Ed Lover — seen here in January 2019 — got a nose job, but it wasn't because he was vain. The hip-hop icon insisted that he went under the knife to correct a deviated septum.
Sandra "Pepa" Denton of the legendary girl group Salt-N-Pepa — seen here in 1995 — had a signature look in the '80s and '90s but decided to change things up in the 2010s…
Pepa reportedly got rhinoplasty, aka a nose job, around the time her VH1 reality series, "The Salt-N-Pepa Show," debuted in 2007. The legendary rapper shaved down the tip of her nose and created more of a bridge, according to reports. But that's not all Pepa had done…
"Pepa" debuted a whole new bottom half in May 2018. The "Push It" rapper — seen here in February 2019 — is rumored to have gotten butt and hip implants, which some Internet trolls made sure to critique. Pepa's daughter, Egypt, defended her mom's new curves on Instagram, writing, "my mom loves her body so if she's happy then I'm happy."
