Kathy Griffin Plastic Surgery

Comic Kathy Griffin has never been one to keep her plastic surgery under wraps. After potentially fatal complications from a 1999 liposuction, she wrote about it in a women's magazine (the story's headline, "Lipo Sucks!"). Nevertheless, this year, Griffin opted for more remodeling: a nose job in January followed by hair straightening, and an overhaul of her teeth, brows, waist, arms (yes, more lipo), and facial skin in May and June. Griffin, 42, who will host NBC's dating reality show Average Joe in the fall, invited PEOPLE along and talked to Los Angeles deputy bureau chief Elizabeth Leonard about how it all felt-and why her first scare didn't put her off nips and tucks for good.

In 1999, I had lipo from my waist down-my stomach, thighs, and the inside of my knees. The idea was to look like Jennifer Aniston. It didn't work out at all. When I woke up I was not able to pee. I got toxicity and had to go to the emergency room and wear a catheter for a week. It was life-threatening, and the results were nonexistent. In fact, I started running after that and got much better results.

Back then I swore I would never get lipo again. I'm still not saying, "Ladies, go have lipo and get your brows put on a different part of your head! It's a blast!" But I work in an industry where if you don't get a little nip and tuck, a lady of my age is going to end up playing Katie Holmes's great-grandmother in the Dawson's Creek reunion. I'm never going to be Halle Berry, but I want to look as good as I can.

I had my nose done because it was a little big. Unfortunately, I think it looks exactly the same. Then I had the Japanese hair straightening done. I love it! It's a long torturous process, though-like six or seven hours. They play movies for you.

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Three Things You May Not Know About Comedian Kathy Griffin

With her reality TV show My Life On The D List and her popular standup comedy shows, Kathy Griffin has quickly become one of the more popular female comedians in entertainment these days. She is always quick with a sarcastic putdown and isn't real shy about who she goes after. To be Kathy's friend means you know that sooner or later you will end up in the act. Kathy Griffin is extremely funny, but here are three things you may not have known about this famous comedian.

1. In 2005, Kathy Griffin played a limo driver on an episode of the daytime soap opera 'Days Of Our Lives'.

2. During season three of her hit reality series 'My Life On The D List', she went through both a divorce and the death of her father.

3. Some of the other television shows that Kathy Griffin has appeared on include Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Celebrity Poker Showdown, The Weakest Link, The X-Files, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Seinfeld, Family Guy, and Celebrity Mole.

With the combination of her already popular following and her no holds barred style of comedy, Kathy Griffin shouldn't be losing any of her well deserved celebrity status anytime soon. Kathy Griffin is truly one of the funniest people, male or female, on television these days. Her live comedy shows remain extremely popular based largely on the fact that you literally don't know who she is going to make fun of next. Many people love to hear other people make fun of the rich and famous and Kathy Griffin gives them exactly what they want.

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Kathy Griffin

Kathy Griffin was born on November 4 1960. She was born in America in Chicago and was brought up and spent her days in Forest Park. Her father and mother both worked. Her father was employed as a manager at an electronic store whereas her mother worked in a hospital as an administrator. Her mothers name was Maggie and her father was named John.

Both of her parents believed in religion and were Catholic. She had a catholic upbringing. She graduated in the year 1978 and was educated at Oak Park and River forest High School. Kathy had five other family members 3 elder brothers and an elder sister. One of her brothers has passed away. Kathy was the youngest of the group.

She began her comedy career by joining a group called the Groundlings in the year 1980. She herself stated that she was interested in the group after seeing some of their performances live. She then went backstage and met one of the Groundlings member and got to know more about the group. Afterwards she started taking classes and due to her exceptional skill was invited into the main company. She performed and gathered a lot of experience by performing with this group. Later on she pursued her career in this field and became a stand up comedian in Los Angeles.

She also appeared in her own show titled Hop Cup of Talk in the year 1998 for HBO. Due to her skills as a performer and artist she has appeared in numerous television serials such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and most currently Ugly Betty. She has also featured in movies such as Shakes the Clown and many more. Furthermore Kathy has lent her voice to animated characters as well and is very skilled at voice work. She lent her voice to the animated Dilbert as well as the widely popular Spiderman series.

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Kathy Griffin's Take on Financial Planning

Kathy Griffin has some wise insight on finances and money management. If you listen to her advice you may find yourself in a much better financial situation and if you don't listen to her advice she my make fun of you on her show someday!

During an episode of My Life on The-D List, Kathy Griffin's reality show, she made wise cracks about actors and actress and their finances. Kathy's comment was that she hates it when she hears actors and actresses say, "I don't do the 'business thing'. I am an actor." Kathy's sarcastic, yet true, remark about why this bothers her is that "business thing" is PART OF YOUR JOB. You need to learn the business end of things. You, as an actor or actress, are your own business and have to run your professional life and personal finances as a business.

Think that doesn't matter to the average Joe? The reason this is such an important point is that it is pertinent to all working people. You spend such a great deal of time working to make money but most spend so little working on how to make that money work for you.

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Official Book Club Selection By Kathy Griffin

There's no fine line. You either love her or hate her.

Two-time Emmy winner and three-time Grammy nominee Kathy Griffin, flame-haired self-appointed denizen of The "D-List," may forever be associated with her much-publicized Emmy Award acceptance speech, in which she concluded, "Suck it, Jesus! This award is my god now!" (On the chance she might win, Griffin had a writer friend pen the speech, a kind of "rebuttal" to the endless stream of winners who thank god while hypocritically living hedonistic lives.*)

She was also famously fired for a joke she perpetuated on the red-carpet in 2005, which she refers to in her book as "Fanning-Gate." Griffin was hired by E! Entertainment Television to "replace" the heavily sequined Joan and Melissa Rivers, who had just been inexplicably awarded an $8 million contract with The TV Guide Channel.

Griffin notes that since she's far from a "fashionista," and a wholly different type of performer, she opted out of "traditional" questions and commentary. She was given the "second" commentator position to blowhard diva Star Jones.

Irked by the "shout-outs" celebrities give each other when one lands in rehab ("It's so brave!"), she decided to perpetuate a prank. Her joke: angelic 10-year-old Dakota Fanning has just entered rehab - do you [random celebrity walking down the carpet] have any words of support for her? While some celebrities clearly got the joke (witty "Will & Grace" star Sean Hayes responded, "Oh Dakota, don't go south... South Dakota!"), others did not. Of course, Griffin relished the media frenzy, and loved when iconic director Steven Spielberg publicly derided her (he was allegedly angry because he thought it would affect audiences for his then upcoming "War of the Worlds.").

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