For years, speculation has swirled over whether or not Ariana Grande had gone under the knife and gotten plastic surgery thanks to her continuously changing appearance.

Now, the singer has admitted to having ‘tons’ of cosmetic procedures throughout her decade-long career.

In a new video shared by Vogue Beauty Secrets this week, the pop star, 30, candidly confessed that she used to get a lot of lip filler and Botox – but stopped in 2018 because she felt like she had gone too far.

‘I had a ton of lip filler over the years and Botox, but I stopped in 2018 because I just felt so — too much,’ she shared in the fiercely honest clip.

She added as she became emotional, ‘I just felt, like, hiding, you know. For a long time, beauty was about hiding for me, and now I feel like maybe it’s not since I stopped getting fillers and Botox.’

Ariana encouraged her followers to embrace their natural looks, especially as they age.

‘For me, I wanna see my well-earned cry lines and smile lines,’ she continued. ‘I hope my smile lines get deeper and deeper and I laugh more and more. I just think aging can be such a beautiful thing.’

But she admitted that she might change in her mind in the future – but explained that what’s important is ‘transparency.’

‘Maybe I’ll start again one day. I don’t know. To each their own. Whatever makes you feel beautiful, I do support,’ she stated.

‘Now might I get a face lift in 10 years? Might, yeah. But these are just thoughts I feel like we should be able to discuss. If we’re talking about beauty secrets, f**k it. Let’s lay it all out there.’

The former Nickelodeon star concluded by reflecting on how her looks have amended over the years.

She admitted that she used to ‘use makeup as a disguise’ when she was younger, but explained that ‘as she gets older,’ she started to use products to ‘accentuate what is there’ instead.

As Ariana speaks out about her cosmetic enhancements, FEMAIL went ahead and took a look back at her dramatic transformation.

From a young new star on Nickelodeon to one of the biggest musicians on the globe, Ariana has certainly gone through a lot – and so has her appearance.

Relive her entire career from start to finish and take a look at how her looks have changed over the years.

All the while, Ariana was also working on her music career, and she released her debut single, Put Your Hearts Up, in 2011.

Her debut album, Yours Truly, came out in August 2013, and it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart.

It contained a slew of massive hits like The Way featuring Mac Miller, Baby I, and Right There featuring Big Sean.

She then teamed up with That Wanted singer Nathan Sykes to record the duet Almost Is Never Enough, and joined Justin Bieber on his Believe Tour for three shows.

She embarked on her first mini-tour, called The Listening Sessions, in the fall of 2013 and she took home the American Music Award for New Artist of the Year in November.

That Christmas, she dropped a four-song holiday EP, called Christmas Kisses, and was invited to perform at the White House for President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in April 2014.

Her second album, My Everything, hit stands in August 2014, and went number one again.

The lead single Problem, featuring Iggy Azalea, reached the second spot on the Billboard Hot 100, while the song Break Free, featuring Zedd, went to number four, and Love Me Harder, with The Weeknd, reached number seven.

She also sang on the song Bang Bang alongside Jessie J and Nicki Minaj that year, which was another chart-topper – earning her four top 10 songs in one year.

Ariana got real about dealing with insecurities while being thrust into the public eye at such a young age to Seventeen in 2014.
‘It’s tough to spend some of the most important years of your life in front of so many strangers who want to pick you apart,’ she admitted.

‘Insecurity has been the hardest thing I’ve had to overcome. I think everyone my age struggles with that because everyone strives for approval and wants to feel loved.’

She embarked on his first headlining tour in early 2015, entitled The Honeymoon Tour.

While her flourishing music career took prominence, Ariana did still act here and there – most notably, she made a guest appearance in the Fox comedy-horror series Scream Queens and had a brief role in movie Zoolander 2 alongside Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.

Ariana’s career continued to soar throughout 2015 and 2016. She released another single, called Focus, in October 2015, and was featured on tons of other tracks like Who Is Fancy’s Boys Like You and Nathan Syke’s Over and Over Again.

In March 2016, she dropped the lead single from her forthcoming third album, Dangerous Woman, which soared to number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The album came out two months after that and was arguably her biggest yet, containing beloved tracks like Be Alright, Into You, and Side to Side.

That year, she also appeared as Penny Pingleton in NBC’s Hairspray Live! and recorded the song Faith with Stevie Wonder for the movie Sing.

In 2017, she joined forces with John Legend to record the title track for the soundtrack of Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast remake and collaborated with Calvin Harris on his tune Heatstroke.

In October 2017 – months before she stopped getting Botox – Ariana (seen in early 2018) shared an important message about self-love to her fans
In October 2017 – months before she stopped getting Botox – Ariana (seen in early 2018) shared an important message about self-love to her fans

She then headed off on another sold out world tour, called the Dangerous Woman Tour.

But tragedy struck in May 2017 when a man set off a bomb outside of her concert in Manchester while people were exiting the venue, killing 22 people and injuring hundreds more.

The horrifying incident resulted in Ariana suspending the tour for two weeks. She went on to hold a benefit concert for the victims where she performed alongside a slew of other big stars like Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, and Miley Cyrus.

In October 2017 – months before she stopped getting Botox – she shared an important message about self-love to her fans, while promoting her new partnership with Reebok.

‘I think the thing I want to instill in them the most is the message of you are loved. There are so many different kinds of beautiful,’ she said.
‘You’re beautiful today if you have 10 cupcakes and you’re beautiful tomorrow if you do a juice cleanse. I don’t care. You’re beautiful because of who you are.’

In April 2018, Ariana dropped the song No Tears Left to Cry, which debuted at number three on the carts, followed by God Is a Woman that August, which went to number eight.

Her fourth studio album, Sweetener, came out that same month, and it quickly reached number one.

Just three months after that, she released another single, entitled Thank U, Next, and announced another album of the same name was on the way.

The song debuted on the top of the chart in 23 countries and it spent a whopping seven weeks at number one in the US.

It broke the record for the most streams received by a song in a single day for a female artist on Spotify and went on to be certified five-times platinum.
She then dropped a four-part YouTube docuseries, entitled Ariana Grande: Dangerous Woman Diaries.

Ariana released the second single from Thank U, Next, 7 Rings, in January 2019 and it once again went to number one and broke a slew of impressive records.

The album came out that February and got 307 million streams in the first week – becoming the largest streaming week for a pop album and for a female album in history.

She won her first Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album that same month, and headed off on another sold-out tour, the Sweetener World Tour, soon after. She also headlined the Coachella Music Festival in April 2019.

Ariana served as the co-executive producer for the soundtrack of the Charlie’s Angels movie later that year, and collaborated with Miley Cyrus and Lana Del Rey for one song, called Don’t Call Me Angel.

She released a song with Social House called Boyfriend in August 2019, and was featured on the remix of Lizzo’s popular hit Good as Hell in October.

In December 2019, she addressed allegations that she had gone under the knife and gotten a nose job.

She responded to a fan who theorized she had it surgically enhanced on Twitter, writing, ‘Hey, this my birth nose what tf did I log onto today. Lemme have a cute nose damn.’

Just when people thought she couldn’t get any bigger, Ariana dropped another smash hit with Justin Bieber in May 2020, entitled Stuck With U. She also collaborated with Lady Gaga for the pop track Rain on Me.

She released her sixth album, Positions, in October 2020, which became her fifth LP to reach number one on the Billboard 200 and contained another array of popular singles.

She also was featured on The Weeknd’s Save Your Tears and debuted a concert film from her Sweetener World Tour that December on Netflix.

In 2021, she became a coach for season 21 of The Voice, with Forbes reporting at the time that she earned a whopping $25 million, becoming the show’s highest-paid coach of all time.

She’s now in the midst of filming the upcoming two-part movie adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked, in which she will play Glinda, The Good Witch. She’s pictured in July

In December of that year, she returned to acting when she made an appearance in the popular Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and Meryl Streep.

She’s currently in the midst of filming the upcoming two-part movie adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked, in which she will play Glinda, The Good Witch.

She has now sold over 85 million records worldwide and has amassed 98 billion streams.

In April, Ariana addressed speculation over her slim figure in a TikTok video, after some fans shared side-by-side images of her early on her career and her recently, while expressing concern over her weight.

But the pop star insisted that she was at her ‘unhealthiest’ in the old photos that people were using, and that she’s doing much better now.

‘I just wanted to address your concerns about my body and talk a little bit about what it means to be a person with a body [that’s] seen and paid such close attention to,’ she began.

‘I think we should be gentler and less comfortable commenting on people’s bodies, no matter what.

In April, Ariana addressed speculation over her slim figure in a TikTok video. She’s seen earlier this year

She said: ‘There are many different ways to look healthy and beautiful, and for me, the body that you’ve been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body’.

‘If you think you’re saying something good or well-intentioned, whatever it is, healthy or unhealthy, big or small, this or that, sexy or not sexy, we should really work towards not doing that as much.

‘I think we should help each other work towards just being safer and keeping each other safer.’

As for her changing appearance, she added, ‘I just want to say: one, there are many different kinds of beautiful.

‘There are many different ways to look healthy and beautiful, and personally for me, the body that you’ve been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body.’

She explained that she was ‘on a lot of anti-depressants’ and ‘drinking on them,’ which is usually not recommended because of dangerous interactions.

Ariana also admitted that she was ‘eating poorly and at the lowest point of her life’ when she ‘looked the way people consider healthy.’

‘I know I shouldn’t have to explain that, but I do feel like maybe having an openness or vulnerability, something good might come from it,’ she added. ‘Healthy can look different.’

She also reminded her fans that they’re not actually friends with her, and therefore, they don’t know the details surrounding her physical or mental health.

‘You never know what someone is going through, so even if you’re coming from a loving place or a caring place, that person probably is working on it or has a support system that they’re working on it with,’ she concluded.