Hailey Bieber recently spoke out against speculations that she’s had work done on her face. Now, a plastic surgeon is making claims about the supermodel on Tiktok – and this time, she and hubby Justin Bieber are threatening to sue.
As a refresher, last week, an Instagram user posted a side-by-side photo of Hailey as a teen and a more recent one, talking about her “transformation.” (The original post has since been deleted).
Hailey hopped on the comments section and wrote: “Stop using pics that are edited by makeup artists! This photo on the right is NOT what I look like… I’ve never touched my face so If you’re gonna sit around and compare me at 13, and then me at 23, at least use a natural photo that wasn’t edited so crazy.”
Then, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, Dr. Daniel Barrett, posted a Tiktok video, comparing two photos of Hailey, which he says “are not edited” – one from 2011 and another from 2016.
“Pay special attention to the nose. What do you think? Well, I’ll tell you what I think. I think it’s physically impossible without getting a little bit of help from someone like myself to go from this picture to that picture,” he says in the video.
He also suggested that Hailey may have had other procedures done – including lip fillers and genioplasty (chin implants).
It looks like the A-list couple aren’t exactly happy about these claims because the Biebers’ legal team served up the doctor with a cease and desist letter.
“These flagrant and conscious infringements of our Clients’ rights constitute a number of violations including, without limitation: misappropriation of name, likeness, image and persona for commercial purposes, misrepresentation, defamation, slander, false light, violation of rights of publicity, copyright infringement, trademark and service mark infringement, unfair competition, dilution, and interference with our Clients’ contractual obligations to third parties,” the letter reads, via E! News.
The letter also warned him that he is subject to “statutory damages for each willful infringement.” There’s also a demand that he retract his claims about Hailey in a public statement and remove all posts containing unauthorized reference or materials belonging to the couple.
So far, Dr. Barret hasn’t taken down the video. He also said in a statement to E! News, “The purpose of my TikTok account is to increase the transparency of plastic surgery and to educate people about plastic surgery. The purpose of the video was not to disparage Hailey Bieber in any way, the purpose of my video was to share my opinion about the procedures that I believed she may have had done based on photos alone. This is at the request of many of my viewers who follow me for this type of information and for my opinion.”
