Barry Manilow It slowly becomes clear what cosmetic surgeries he has undergone over the years.
“I look amazing, but I’m 100 years old, right?” The 82-year-old singer joked during an interview with the Los Angeles Times published on Wednesday, May 27th. “By the way, I don’t know how this happened.”
Manilow revealed that he doesn’t get “Botox or anything like that,” which prompted the outlet to ask if he had “work done” earlier.
“I have to say, one time when we were living in LA I did a facelift,” he revealed. “But after that it was just a little bit here, a little bit there.”
Barry Manilow is on the mend after undergoing surgery to remove cancerous tissue in one of his lungs. “I want to give you all an update. I’m doing great and recovering very well after my surgery,” Manilow, 82, wrote in a statement shared on social media on Wednesday, February 4. “I did sports and (…)
Manilow clarified that he’s looking at the “work done” as something extreme like a facelift.
“I only had one of these,” he continued about his previous facelift. “The rest – I see something falling down, sure, I’ll do it. I’m as vain as anyone. One of my old friends, his mother, said, ‘I always knew he was talented, but when did he get so handsome?'”
Manilow’s cosmetic confession comes five months after he announced his lung cancer diagnosis.
“As many of you know, I recently had bronchitis for six weeks, followed by a relapse for another five weeks. Even though I got over the bronchitis and was back on stage at Westgate Las Vegas, my wonderful doctor ordered an MRI to make sure everything was okay,” he wrote via Instagram in December 2025. “The MRI discovered a cancerous spot on my left lung that needs to be removed. It’s pure luck (and a great doctor) that it was caught so early.” That’s the good news.”
The “Mandy” singer shared that he had to undergo surgery to remove the cancerous area. He did not need chemotherapy because the disease was detected early.
Barry Manilow has opened up about his long history with cigarettes. “I smoked for 30 years. I started when I was 9,” the “Copacabana” singer told The Standard in 2012, revealing he later quit before starting the habit again. Manilow eventually switched to vaping. In December 2025, Manilow announced that he (…)
“The doctors don’t believe it has spread and I’m doing tests to confirm their diagnosis. So that’s it. No chemotherapy, no radiation,” he continued. “Just chicken soup and I Love Lucy reruns.”
During his recovery, Manilov postponed his concerts. Three months later, Manilow announced that he was cancer-free.
“You just don’t even think about it (how fragile life is). And all of a sudden you have lung cancer. But I’m still here,” Manilow told People in March. “I’m still here. I’m not fully here – there’s a part of me that’s not here – they took a part of me out and now I have to figure out, ‘What should I do?'”
