Rebecca Judd on cosmetic procedures, Kris Jenner and beauty standards: ‘I just give zero f***s now’

The model and influencer vows to disclose every cosmetic procedure she’s undergone, while calling out the pressure women (and celebrities) face around beauty standards.

Model, Entrepreneur and influencer Rebecca Judd gets real about living up to impossible standards – and being in her “zero f***s” era.

Stellar: You are co-hosting a new beauty podcast called Vain-ish with your best friend Jess Roberts. Tell us about the name.

Rebecca Judd: We created this podcast because we want to look good, we want to feel good, and we don’t want to be shamed for doing so. Where the ‘ish’ comes from is that we’re mums of big families.

And yes, we love to dress up and go to a party, but the next morning we’ll be doing school drop-off in our pyjamas. Literally, I drop my kids off in my pyjamas five days a week.

Rebecca Judd is being honest about cosmetic work, as she tells the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About. Picture: Steven Chee for Stellar

Listen to Rebecca Judd on a new episode of the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, below:

Stellar: What do your kids think of that?

Rebecca Judd: I drop them down the street a little bit and I say to them, “When you get your school bags out of the boot, make sure you press the button so the boot closes perfectly before you strand me there.”

Because sometimes when it doesn’t close and the kids go off, then I’ve got to get out in no bra, my PJs, my Ugg boots – or, most of the time, no shoes – and go and close the boot in front of all the other school parents. So that’s the rule.

Leaning into that -ish name of this podcast, we don’t take ourselves seriously. Half the time our nails have grown out, our extensions are hanging out, we need a good wax and a pluck and a shave.

Picture: Steven Chee for Stellar

Picture: Steven Chee for Stellar

Stellar: That women can feel the expectation to look a certain way is a well-documented pressure in our culture, but god forbid you look like you’re trying. You’ve said you want to take the shame out of being vain.

Rebecca Judd: Beauty standards are so impossible for women right now. It’s very topical. Everyone has been talking about Lindsay Lohan’s face and Anne Hathaway’s face and Kris Jenner’s face. I feel like there are two camps and they’re both very vocal and angry at each other. There’s one camp saying, “They’ve had work, how vain are they? How superficial, how shallow.”

And then you’ve got the other camp saying when women don’t get work done and they show signs of ageing, grey hairs, wrinkles and sagging skin, “She’s let herself go, she should go and get some work.”

‘Women just can’t win!’ Picture: Steven Chee for Stellar

So that person then feels pressured to go and get work done, and then: “Oh … she’s overdone it.” And the cycle starts again. Women just can’t win. Jess and I really just want to break down these two opposing sides.

We are all on our own journey with body image and ageing. I believe we all kind of sit on a spectrum of vanity. There’s a zero-f***s end and there’s full-f***s end. And no matter where you sit, you are most welcome to sit there. Your body, your choice.

Stellar: In terms of transparency, do you think – rightly or wrongly – that women now feel an obligation to other women to be honest about what they are or are not doing to their faces and bodies?

Rebecca Judd: Jess and I want to be completely transparent about what it actually takes to look a certain way. When I got married [in 2010 to husband Chris], [my hair stylist] Marie Uva glued in about a metre of hair extensions. We didn’t tell anyone, because back then hair extensions was: “Oh, it’s a bit vain if you’re gonna glue fake hair in …” So we kept that a secret.

Now, Marie will tell you [that] 100 per cent of her celebrity clients have hair extensions of some sort, and 60 per cent of her non-celebrity clients do. Isn’t that insane? And now we’re just talking about it. We had Kris Jenner release a press statement through her plastic surgeon who said, “Hey, I’m the guy” [who did her face lift].

We had Kylie Jenner comment on a post about her breast augmentation, saying “Hey, this doctor did it, this is how big they were, this is the placement,” being very, very transparent.

I think 2025 is the year that we stop gaslighting women by saying, “I don’t have any wrinkles because I sleep eight hours, wear sunscreen and drink lots of water.”

‘I’m 42, and I don’t have a line on my face!’ Rebecca Judd, right, with her husband, Chris Judd. Picture: Danielle Castano

The AFL golden couple at the Brownlow in September last year. Picture: Getty Images

Picture: Getty Images

Listen to Rebecca Judd on a new episode of the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, below:

They are all very important things. But you get to a certain age where it’s like, come on, let’s be a bit more honest. This is the year where we stop bullsh***ing everyone and we ’fess up. I’m 42, and I don’t have a line on my face. I’m telling you it’s not because I get eight hours’ sleep a night, all right?

But you’ll have to listen to the podcast to find out what [I’ve done].

I feel like when everyone is a little bit more honest we can have better conversations around beauty, aesthetics and wellness. But if we’re all still hiding things … I understand why – because you get shamed for speaking out, you get called vain or shallow, and I probably will for doing these podcasts.

I don’t care anymore. I’ve passed that. But until we are honest about these things, how can we have proper conversations?

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Celebrities are a lot more open now – even about having their make-up done. Ten or 20 years ago we were still pretending they didn’t wear any. There was no “behind the scenes”.

You should see a photo of how I woke up this morning. Pretty bloody bad. But that’s OK. You know, it feels really liberating to just let it go and be honest, because you’re not trying to hide any secrets. I remember maybe five, seven years ago, I was going to get some injectables and there was a [paparazzo] on my tail and I couldn’t shake him.

And I thought, gosh, if I get photographed walking into a clinician and her name was on the sign where I’d be walking in, it would be a front-page story and it would be so embarrassing. So I’d drive around. He’d keep following me, so then I wouldn’t go into the appointment.

I’d just drive home. And then you’d have to call and say, I’m really sorry but a pap was following me. God forbid someone gets an injectable.

Now, if a pap followed me, I wouldn’t even care. It’s like, get the photo, it’s fine.

I just give zero f***s now. I don’t know if it’s my age … It’s 2025 and I think people

just don’t care as much anymore. And it feels good to not care.

Kris Jenner is almost 70 and looks so young you could easily mistake her for her Kardashian daughters.

It was quite unreal to see [photos of her following her recent cosmetic enhancements]. It is actually “unreal”. That costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, it involves so much recovery, a general anaesthetic and hours and hours under the knife.

That’s a big, big procedure. I think when you’re honest about that, then people have a better understanding of what’s actually involved.

I read somewhere, someone said “Kris Jenner is 70? She looks like that. Does that mean I have to look f*ckable at 70 as well?”

It’s like, no, no-one needs to look any way when they’re 70. Just because she looks like that doesn’t mean that you have to. You do you.

You’re a mum of four. After your twins were born, you appeared on the cover of Stellar in2017 in a glamorous, high-end shoot, during which you said, “I urge your readers to imagine the complete opposite” – that real life doesn’t actually look like this. What is the reality of day-to-day life in your household now?

I’ve now got a 13-year-old, 11-year-old, and eight-year-old twins. The twins were far easier when they were babies. They’re so full on. Tom and Darcy, I love you, but you are hard work. They are beautiful boys. When I’m with them, I’m tearing my hair out.

And then as soon as I got on the plane to come shoot [with] Stellar, straight away I miss them.

You know, I’m “mum’s taxi”. There’s nothing I love more than watching my kids play sport.

I want to be at training, I want to watch them compete, so I really dedicate a big chunk of my day to that and then probably work until midnight most nights. That’s when I get everything done. It’s probably not sustainable, but right now, in my sports mum era, that’s my life.

Your husband Chris Judd is a former AFL player who is regarded as one of the greatest of all time. Who is the more competitive sports parent out of the two of you?

He won two Brownlow Medals, a Premiership and a Norm Smith Medal and a whole host of other things. He’s actually said to me, “You are so much more competitive than me.”

So imagine what happens when the two most competitive people in the world have children [laughs]. This is why the [sibling] fights and punch-ons happen.

They absolutely want to win at everything, these children. It’s just hectic. But I love it, because I look at them and go, oh, you’re my children. It is a very feisty, competitive household.

Given your children are older now, where is your relationship with ambition at the moment?

I am ambitious and I love to work, and I’m always seeking out new opportunities. There’s so much more I want to do. I’ve moved into interior design. I taught myself, I did an online course. I’ve been designing lots of beautiful interiors.

I’d love to lean into that a little bit more. I’m looking for my next project.

The podcast with Jess is so fun. Let’s see where that takes us. Maybe there will be a TV show, maybe there will be a product. I love to work.

Listen to Rebecca Judd on a new episode of the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About, below:

I’m always looking to do the next thing. Sometimes I think, gosh, I need a break, I’ll have a couple of days off. But I get so bored at home. I need to be working. I like the dopamine hit. I’m a yes person. Sometimes I feel like I bite off more than I can chew, but it gets done in the end.

Vain-ish with Bec Judd and Jess Roberts is available via the LiSTNR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

Listen to the full interview with Rebecca Judd on the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About wherever you get your podcasts. See the cover shoot with her in Stellar today, out via The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland) and Sunday Mail (SA).

Originally published as Rebecca Judd on cosmetic procedures, Kris Jenner and beauty standards: ‘I just give zero f***s now’