Jessel Taank, Andy Cohen. Charles Sykes/Bravo ; Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
The Real Housewives of Latest York City’s Jessel Taank is breaking down her thoughts on Andy Cohen asking about her cosmetic surgery throughout the season 15 reunion.
“The undeniable fact that Andy asked me, I wasn’t offended because I do know he issued an announcement about this. He does ask, I’m sure, at every reunion, ‘Have you ever guys prepared?’” Taank, 45, explained on the Wednesday, February 12, episode of the “The right way to Fail” podcast. “Loves a boob job, loves a nose job, loves a little bit of filler and Botox. For me, he’s been so complimentary of me and the way I dress and the way I look and so I didn’t take offense to it.”
In Taank’s perspective, the conversation on the reunion “went south” when costar Brynn Whitfield chimed in and said, “Well, I do know what she’s done to her face.”
“I feel I used to be confused because I assumed she was alluding to the undeniable fact that possibly I did more, like I had a nose job or a facelift, which none of that’s true,” Taank said. “So there was a little bit little bit of confusion on my part after which she went to say that she introduced me to someone who does injectables and that I ran out on a bill, which also didn’t occur. So I feel the entire thing took a little bit of a dive.”
Taank claimed that the situation “got really awkward,” and recalled being asked, “OK, well, what did you do?” Taank explained that that “was sort of the stress of all of it.”
“But I stand by the undeniable fact that I’ve only done Botox and filler. My mum would kill me if I did anything more,” Taank added. “She literally would.”
During part certainly one of the season 15 finale, which aired in January, Cohen, 56, observed that Taank had “quite a glow up” and claimed she looked like “an airbrushed version” of herself. While initially explaining that she cut her hair and lost weight, Taank admitted that she had “done botox since I used to be 26.”
“I got Botox and I do filler and that’s it,” Taank said, before adding that she got veneers. Cohen identified that Taank wasn’t entirely open about her cosmetic surgery.
“It’s just the sprinkle of Botox, the fillers and the veneers,” Cohen confirmed, to which Taank replied, “Yes, nothing else. That’s it.”
After the reunion aired, Cohen addressed the conversation. “‘What work have you ever done’ stays at the highest of the list of viewer questions every season, every franchise,” Cohen wrote via X in January, while reposting a user’s tweet who suggested he should “retire” asking Bravo stars about their alleged or possible cosmetic surgery. “The HW have unabashedly allow us to into their beauty regimes since day one; It’s a giant a part of the series DNA.”
