Barry Manilow she finds out the truth about what cosmetic surgery she has received over the years.
“I look good, but I'm 100 years old, right?” the singer, 82, joked during an interview with Los Angeles Times published on Wednesday, May 27. “I don't know how that happened.”
Manilow revealed that she's not getting “Botox or anything,” prompting the store to ask if she had any previous “work done.”
“I have to say, there was a time when we were living in L.A. that I did a facelift,” he said. “But after that it's been a little bit here, a little bit there.”
Manilow made it clear that he considers getting “work done” to be like going under the knife for something as extreme as a face lift.
“I only had one of those,” he continued to fix his previous face. “Something else – I see something falling down, sure, I'm going to do it. I'm vain like everybody else. One of my old friends, her mother said, 'I knew you had a gift, but when did you become so good?'
Manilow's confession comes five months after he revealed that he had lung cancer.
“As many of you know, I recently went through six weeks of bronchitis followed by a relapse for another five weeks. Even though I was over bronchitis and back on stage at the Westgate Las Vegas, my good doctor ordered an MRI to make sure everything was fine,” he wrote on Instagram 2025. “The MRI found a cancerous spot in my left breast in December. early.
The “Mandy” singer shared that she needs surgery to remove the cancerous area. He did not need chemotherapy because he was caught early.
Barry Manilow has been open about his long history with cigarettes. “I smoked for 30 years. I started when I was 9 years old,” the “Copacabana” singer told The Standard in 2012, revealing that he later quit before starting the habit again. Manilow eventually switched to vaping. In December 2025, Manilow announced that he still had it […]
“The doctors don't believe it has spread, and I'm taking tests to confirm their diagnosis. So, that's it. No chemo. No radiation,” he continued. “It's just chicken soup and I love Lucy again.”
During his recovery, Manilow postponed his concerts. Three months later, Manilow shared that he was cancer-free.
“You don't even think about it [how fragile life is]. And suddenly, he has lung cancer. But I'm still here,” Manilow told People in March. “I'm still here. I'm not whole here—there's a part of me that's not here—they took part of me out, and now I have to figure out, 'What do I do?'”
