Did Kim Kardashian have a SECRET face lift? Star, 44, had surgery after fillers aged her prematurely, suggests one of UK's top cosmetic doctors

She's 1 of nan world's astir celebrated faces. And contempt Kim Kardashian's stunning looks, nan A-lister is nary alien to having her quality scrutinised.

But aft a caller nationalist appearance, nan mother of four's extraordinarily sculpted look sparked speculation she whitethorn person sought a small thief from nan surgeon's knife.

Attending the Academy Museum Gala successful Los Angeles this week she sported glitter dress up and slicked backmost hair. 

Social media users, however, pointed retired she was showing 'virtually nary signs of ageing' and suggested she'd had a 'tastefully done facelift' — astatine conscionable 44 years old.

Now, a apical UK cosmetic expert has weighed successful — and he agrees Kim's look bears each nan hallmarks of a caller cosmetic operation. 

Kim has strenuously denied ever having room connected her look but fans person agelong speculated she has had fillers — a celebrated process successful which gels are injected beneath nan tegument wherever they sit, adding volume. 

She has, however, antecedently admitted to having a 'little spot of Botox'. 

London-based aesthetics expert Dr Jonny Betteridge said he suspects nan mother-of-four has undergone thing called 'a ponytail facelift'. 

In an Instagram video, he told his 289,000 followers: 'Fillers only spell truthful acold and if you capable your look to nan constituent wherever you can't spell immoderate further, often you request to dissolve what you've sewage and past you're near pinch an replacement option. That's surgery.

'You tin spot really tight and lifted her look looks pinch virtually nary signs of ageing.

'Given her facial appearance, I deliberation she had a ponytail facelift around 2 aliases 3 years ago, wherever nan scars are discreetly put successful nan hairline by nan temple and down nan ear.'  

A ponytail facelift, besides known arsenic a mini facelift or short scar facelift, is simply a minimally invasive facial cosmetic process that takes astir an hr and a half to complete.

It costs astir £6,000 privately successful nan UK.  

Through nan discreet incisions made astir nan ears and hairline, underlying tissues are tightened and muscles tin beryllium repositioned. 

Excess tegument tin past beryllium trimmed to create a smoother, much youthful appearance. 

Dr Betteridge added: 'In a video of hers from 2022, we tin spot grounds of tegument folding successful beforehand of nan ear.

'But for her to look very akin to really she did 20 years ago, pinch nan only existent evident quality being her chemoreceptor style and feature volume, I'd opportunity that's beautiful impressive.' 

'Great surgeon! She looks truthful great', 1 instrumentality wrote, commenting connected Dr Betteridge's video.

'She looks fabulous, but looks for illustration a facelift — isn't this incredibly young to person one?' different questioned.

Earlier this month, a surgeon speaking to MailOnline warned of nan emergence successful younger women needing facelift surgery, because their looked had been 'ruined' by years of having filler injections.

Dr Julian De Silva, a master successful facial integrative room said: 'Increasingly women are coming to maine astir facial ageing successful their 30s. Often it's because they've had fillers.

'Filler tin accumulate — it doesn't ever wholly dissolve people and it tin beryllium really difficult to remove.

'One diligent I hadn't seen for 5 years came backmost for facelift room and I almost didn't recognise her because she had truthful overmuch measurement added to her cheeks, lips, chin, jawline.

'She was having it added each six months and it conscionable accumulated. 

'We dissolved arsenic overmuch arsenic we could. But patients often require room arsenic their tegument ends up stretched.'

Dr Sophie Shotter, of nan British College of Aesthetic Medicine, added: 'You're not expected to person fillers earlier you're 18, but we cognize little reputable clinics do it.

'So I'm not amazed women deed their 30s and extremity up pinch tegument laxity and needing surgery.'

Last year, Dr Andrew Peredo, who specializes successful artistic procedures of nan face, besides speculated that Kim had spent 'somewhere astir $50,000' because 'she is truthful good known'.

He told MailOnline: 'It is difficult to say, but I do cognize of surgeons who complaint much than $200,000 for procedures because they are truthful good known and a batch of celebrities spell to them.'

He besides suggested she had undergone articulator augmentation via either filler aliases fat graft and a chemoreceptor occupation because 'the apical looks a small much refined.'

Dr Peredo added: 'Her eyes are besides much visible and do look much cat-like, truthful it is imaginable she had eyelid room [or blepharoplasty] to get that much exotic look.

'Her look besides seems a small spot fuller, which could beryllium owed to gaining a small weight aliases having fillers to tighten up nan tegument a little.' 

Kim has only ever admitted to having 'a small spot of Botox,' which she revealed successful a 2022 question and reply pinch Allure.

She besides said she had had 'no filler' and had 'never filled my cheeks aliases lips'. 

She did, however, admit to utilizing laser treatments regularly. 

'I care. I really, genuinely attraction astir looking good,' she said. 

'I do my beauty treatments usually precocious astatine night. After everyone’s successful bed, I’m doing laser treatments.'